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PBS Mocks Trump's 'No Wars' Claim, Urges Reading WashPost Fact-Check

January 22nd, 2024 6:42 AM

PBS’s weekly political roundtable show Washington Week with The Atlantic lamented that Republican voters would never heed the wisdom of the Washington Post’s fact checker. In the latest edition, two Atlantic staffers responded to comments by Wall Street Journal reporter Nancy Youssef considering how potential candidates Biden and Trump could respond to the current…

FLASHBACK: The Media’s Skewed Coverage of Past New Hampshire Primaries

January 21st, 2024 10:21 AM

Since 2008, the NewsBusters archives shows the intensive political coverage surrounding the New Hampshire primary has been a chance for journalists to take gratuitous potshots at conservative candidates, while liberals (often referred to as “moderates”) are treated to rock-star treatment.

PBS Remains Willfully Ignorant on How Shuttering Schools Hurt Kids

January 20th, 2024 11:18 PM

PBS NewsHour devoted two stories about children struggling in schools after the COVID pandemic. But amid the handwringing there was no mention of how teachers unions are to blame for what turned out to be unnecessary school shutdowns, for over a year in some liberal cities, ruining activities and life events students had come to rely on. Even worse, a story about delays in speech…

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PBS: Netanyahu Disagreeing With Biden Is About Staying Out Of Jail

January 20th, 2024 10:06 AM

President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are having a bit of a disagreement about what post-war Gaza will look like and to make sense of it all, PBS NewsHour host Geoff Bennett invited foreign policy non-experts, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks to the Friday show to figure out why.…

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PBS Defends AP's Premature Iowa Call: 'Been Doing It for 170 Years'

January 19th, 2024 12:11 PM

Even some in the liberal press were a bit bothered by the Associated Press’s decision to call the Iowa caucuses for Donald Trump at 7:30 p.m., just 30 minutes after they’d begun and before some caucus-goers had even voted. The decision was especially significant, given the handwringing in the mainstream press about the dangers a second Trump term would pose to free elections and democracy…

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Amanpour Touts 'Barbie' as 'Subversively, Seriously Feminist' on PBS

January 18th, 2024 10:29 AM

On the PBS show Amanpour & Co., host Christiane Amanpour celebrated Latino actress America Ferrera and her monologue in the Barbie movie. Ferrera said  "it's the Barbie movie that no one asked for. That no one thought we needed, you know." Amanpour shot back: "And kind of subversively, seriously feminist."

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PBS: Dems Have a Far Left, And It’s Amazing (Plus Secret Lefty Biden?)

January 17th, 2024 1:06 PM

PBS NewsHour anchor Geoff Bennett was right about one thing regarding a new book by journalist Joshua Green, The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle For a New American Politics: "what doesn't get nearly as much attention is the far left's influence in the Democratic Party." But the Green interview skipped controversies and any…

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PBS 'Expert' Says GOP 'Hardliners' Are Ruining the Impeachment Power

January 15th, 2024 11:56 AM

On Saturday's PBS News Weekend, anchor John Yang and his appointed expert Sarah Binder discussed how Republican "hardliners" are weaponizing impeachment.

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On PBS, Host Bianna Golodryga Giggles Over Israel’s Denial of Genocide

January 14th, 2024 2:45 PM

Thursday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., which co-airs on CNN International and government-funded PBS, was obsessed about South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, devoting over half an hour to the subject with two guests. Both praised South Africa’s biased, hostile anti-Israel case. At one point Golodryga apparently found Israel’s…

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On PBS, Radical Playwright Dismisses Anti-Semitism by Leftists on Gaza

January 13th, 2024 6:03 AM

On taxpayer-funded PBS, radical-left playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner appeared on Amanpour & Co. and tried to downplay left-wing anti-Semitism and weirdly claimed that there is nothing anti-Semitic about calling for an "intifada" against Israel.

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What a Report on South Korea's Dog-Eating Ban Teaches Us About PBS

January 12th, 2024 1:14 AM

The Public Broadcasting System is often exposed for what it is: a publicly-funded hotbed of progressive propaganda disguised as news. Left-wing biases hard-baked into its editorial lines and delivered with calm tones. But if you look hard enough, from time to time you’ll find a report that exemplifies what news delivery should be.

Wild Trump Smears on PBS: ‘Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Holocaust'

January 10th, 2024 10:01 PM

Journalist Tim Alberta is author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, a book touted as the author’s “deeply personal examination of the divisions that threaten to destroy the American evangelical movement.” He’s been making the rounds of friendly liberal media outlets lamenting fear-based evangelical Christian loyalty to Donald Trump…

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PBS Marks Fringe Liberal Win: Old MN Flag 'Cluttered, Genocidal Mess'

January 9th, 2024 10:36 PM

Taxpayer-funded PBS once again pushed a fringe issue into the forefront of the news. This time it was a purely symbolic one. Saturday’s PBS News Weekend, devoted a full five minutes to Minnesota’s move to replace its state flag, staggeringly described by PBS as “what one critic called a cluttered, genocidal mess,” with a less offensive design. Well, that escalated…

BREAKING: How the Biden Admin Pushed German Censorship to US Teachers

January 9th, 2024 6:15 PM

The Biden regime, through a year-long series of State Department seminars, has quietly incubated this censorship project through one organization: the University of Rhode Island Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”). The Rhode Island Lab has spent two decades pushing a specific strain of “media literacy,” a rebranding of censorship for a Gen Z audience. With the Biden administration’s…