PBS Hosts NYT Reporter Boosting ‘Kid’ Jihadists' vs Israeli Occupiers

August 31st, 2024 10:44 PM

Anchor Amna Nawaz hosted on Thursday’s PBS News Hour as her expert Steven Erlanger, chief diplomatic correspondent and former Jerusalem bureau chief and fiercely pro-Palestinian voice for years at the paper. They spoke about Israel killing young Islamic Jihad leader Mohammed Jaber in a West Bank action.

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'One Of The Lowest Moments': PBS Attacks Trump's Arlington Visit

August 31st, 2024 10:00 AM

Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr and New York Times counterpart David Brooks agreed on Friday’s PBS News Hour that Donald Trump’s recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery was “really one of the lowest political moments” they could recall.

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‘Joyful,’ ‘Happy’ Harris-Walz Vs. ‘Dark,’ ‘Dangerous’ Trump-Vance

August 31st, 2024 9:00 AM

The following are the most egregious examples of leftist journalists holding up the Harris-Walz ticket, while trashing Trump-Vance over the last month.

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PBS Pounces on Trump ‘Conspiracies' Arlington, Gives Dems Pass on Lies

August 31st, 2024 7:19 AM

As the election looms and the media burrows deeper into the bag for the Democratic presidential ticket, the online headlines at PBS News Hour are getting sharper and more partisan, like this one to accompany a Wednesday evening segment by the show’s most partisan reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez: “Harris kicks off Georgia tour as Trump posts grievances on social media.” The contrast was…

PBS Panel Hails DNC ‘Centrist Republican Energy,’ Phony Dem ‘Freedom'

August 28th, 2024 10:40 AM

The panelists on the post-Democratic convention edition of PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic’s Friday night political roundtable offered an assortment of bias, lauding the Harris campaign the night after her acceptance speech, while also praising Michelle Obama as “the most admired woman on Earth” and maybe the whole solar system and spouting about the Democratic embrace of “…

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PolitiFact Pleases PBS: Democrat Convention Much More Factual Than RNC

August 27th, 2024 5:49 AM

PBS and their "independent fact-checker" partners at PolitiFact can agree: the Democratic convention was much more factual than the Republican convention. So Democrats didn't just corner the market on "joy" and "electricity," but apparently on facticity. 

PBS Confesses: Dems Say, We Say ‘Reproductive Rights,’ Not ‘Abortion'

August 25th, 2024 1:37 PM

One piece of PBS’s coverage of the last night of the Democratic National Convention unwittingly confirmed media labeling bias on PBS and other “mainstream “outlets. First, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart hailed the Democrat’s vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz for using the supposedly less frightening and more convincing term “gun safety legislation” instead of “gun…

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PBS Hails DNC's 'Patriotism' Versus RNC's 'Weighted Blanket'

August 24th, 2024 9:35 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks recapped the Democratic National Convention on Friday’s PBS News Hour by contrasting its “jubilation” and “patriotism” with the “hate” that came out of the RNC’s “weighted blanket.”

Silly PBS: Harris Makes Dems ‘Feel Seen,’ ‘Trump Derangement’ Not Real

August 24th, 2024 8:54 AM

PBS opened its fourth and final night of coverage from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago with reporting from the PBS News Hour, with congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins, reporting from D.C. a segment on the Republican’s “counterprogramming” of the convention. She proceeded to defensively explain Trump rhetoric to her viewers as if they were toddlers. Once the actual…

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Theater of the Absurd: The Worst Media Outbursts from the DNC

August 24th, 2024 8:00 AM

There was an overload of absurd, obnoxious and over-top outbursts from leftist journalists during their coverage of the Democratic National Convention. The NewsBusters team worked literally day and night to track them down. The following are the worst outbursts from leftist journalists during the Democratic National Convention. 

PBS’s Capehart on Horror of USA Chants at GOP Rallies: ‘Felt Menacing'

August 23rd, 2024 7:52 AM

Reporter Laura Barron-Lopez set the scene for Night Three of the Democratic National Convention on the preceding episode of the PBS News Hour Wednesday evening, looking back with joy at Barack and Michelle Obama’s speeches from Night Two.

News Hour co-anchor Amna Nawaz opened PBS’s Night Three convention coverage by also finding “a message of hope” in Barack Obama’s…

PBS Goes Full Feminist: US on the ‘Cusp' of a Female President (Again)

August 22nd, 2024 5:24 PM

On Night 2 of the Democratic Convention, anchor Amna Nawaz was talking to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the PBS booth when they were joined by veteran PBS journalist Judy Woodruff. Nawaz took advantage by tossing aside her journalist hat and hosting a heartfelt feminist kaffeeklatsch hailing VP Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, as a feminist hero on “the…

PBS Harkens to 'Joyful Warrior' Harris Rekindling Excitement of Obama

August 22nd, 2024 9:51 AM

The “excitement” began right from the introduction of PBS’s coverage of Night Two of the Democratic National Convention from Chicago, which featured consecutive speeches by Michelle and Barack Obama. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett set up this T-ball of a question: “And former president Barack Obama speaks to the city that helped launch his political career.” Next, in a staged soundbite, someone off-…

PBS’s Woodruff Apologizes for Forwarding Bad Reporting on Trump Call

August 21st, 2024 8:30 PM

During Night One of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, veteran reporter Judy Woodruff falsely reported on a Donald Trump phone call to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that never happened, a call that would have made Trump appear to influence Israel’s war policy in order to help himself win election. Discussing how lame-duck President Joe Biden could still help VP Kamala…