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PBS Aids Zooey Zephyr's 'Blood on Your Hands' and 'Eradication' Smears

April 29th, 2023 10:44 PM

The tax-funded PBS NewsHour on Wednesday night was the latest outlet to leap upon the cause of Montana legislator and transgender Democrat Zooey Zephyr, barred from the House chamber for violating rules of decorum during a debate on a bill that would ban so-called “gender-affirming care” for gender-dysmorphic minors wishing to surgically or chemically “transition.” The vote came after…

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Taxpayer-Funded Lies: Amanpour Buoys TN Dems Crying Racism

April 29th, 2023 12:55 AM

On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co. show, PBS host Christiane Amanpour used her taxpayer-funded program to promote phony claims that Tennessee Republicans were racially motivated because they expelled two black Democrats from the state legislature while failing to expel a white Democrat.

NewsBusters Podcast: PBS Stands for President Biden's Servants

April 26th, 2023 10:41 PM

Tuesday's PBS NewsHour displayed a stark partisan contrast in coverage. It began with eleven minutes of promotional coverage of Biden's re-election announcement, with no mention of Hunter Biden. They then followed with eight minutes of negative coverage about the civil rape trial of Donald Trump as alleged by journalist E. Jean Carroll.

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Journos on PBS: House GOP Hasn't 'Landed a Punch' on Biden Scandals

April 23rd, 2023 8:15 AM

Friday’s PBS NewsHour pundits discussed Biden preparing to announce a re-election bid without mentioning this week’s big Hunter Biden scoops, and the same thing happened on the PBS journalist roundtable Washington Week. In the show’s last minute, they discussed House GOP investigations – but not Hunter’s name. Reporter Heather Caygle of Punchbowl News said “Have they landed a…

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Ignoring Hunter Revelations, PBS Hypes Biden 2024: No 'Big Scandals'

April 22nd, 2023 10:29 AM

The weekly table discussion on PBS NewsHour between Washington Post Associate Editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks spent some time on Friday discussing President Biden’s upcoming re-election campaign. Ignoring all the week’s developments surrounding Hunter, Brooks claimed Biden’s in a good spot, “There hasn't been any obvious gaffes, big…

PBS: Pass Health Care to Boost US Lifespan; End School Lunch 'Crisis'

April 18th, 2023 10:07 PM

The PBS NewsHour Weekend show on Sunday pitched for more Euro-socialist-style government programs -- for the children in a school lunch “crisis,” and in the name of U.S. average life expectancy. To make the argument that the United States should be more like other “industrialized” countries in order to boost U.S. life expectancy, host John Yang teed up a liberal doctor and a universal…

PBS NewsHour Co-Host Pushes Biden Aide Hard from the Left on Abortion

April 16th, 2023 10:23 PM

Before taking the job as PBS News Hour host, Amna Nawaz made her strong abortion-rights views known in an interview with the feminist news site: I think a lot about the rights that will pass on to our daughters. I think we have just lived through a Supreme Court decision that for the first time in modern history has removed rights from a population rather than expanding rights, and I…

PBS Political Team: GOP Doomed on Abortion, Racial Mistreatment in TN

April 13th, 2023 10:40 PM

PBS NewsHour host Geoff Bennett welcomed back the show’s political team, Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of National Public Radio, for a spicy Monday evening rehash of the previous week’s fiery political happenings, through a tax-funded, Democratic prism. After a clip from Sen. Lindsey Graham warning Republicans to adopt “reasonable positions” on abortion to…

NewsBusters Podcast: NPR Leaves Twitter In a Hilarious Huff

April 12th, 2023 10:52 PM

Twitter went from tagging National Public Radio as "state-affiliated broadcasting" to "government-funded media," but NPR decided to leave Twitter in a huff because Twitter was damaging its so-called image of "editorial independence." But they sound like National Public Relations for Democrats...

PBS Uses Thomas to Push Reporter’s Book Warning of Scary Righty SCOTUS

April 11th, 2023 9:16 AM

CNN Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic gives off a Nina Totenberg vibe, a longtime legal reporter who's all about diminishing the conservatives. So it's only natural that she was invited on the CNN/PBS-aired talk show Amanpour & Co. The news hook was a ProPublica probe into Clarence Thomas and his ritzy travel with a GOP "megadonor."

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PBS Downplays Weak Trump Charges, Pushes Neo-Nazi, White Power Threats

April 8th, 2023 6:50 AM

Former President Trump was arrested on 34 felony counts of bookkeeping fraud involving hush money and appeared in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, as everyone in the world knows. PBS made the most out of the case, devoting a half hour of its evening “news hour” to multiple angles on the indictment. The dubious charges by New York district attorney Alvin Bragg involve years-old allegations…

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PBS’s Woodruff Uses MSNBC's Charlie Sykes as Wisconsin Voter Expert

April 6th, 2023 6:32 AM

Former PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff is now reporting from the field, and previewed the state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. Her primary political analyst was Charlie Sykes of the "center-right" site The Bulwark, who is an almost daily liberal presence on MSNBC.

PBS, NPR Smear ‘Apocalyptic’ Criticism of Trump-Targeting DA Bragg

April 5th, 2023 3:15 PM

NPR media reporter David Folkenflik, who's been on an anti-Fox kick of late, went off on “right-wing media’s” “apocalyptic” coverage criticizing the legal case against Donald Trump and their attacks on Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg. Earlier, Trump and conservatives were baselessly accused on Friday’s PBS NewsHour of both racism (Bragg is black) and anti-Semitism (for…

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PBS: Bragg, Soros Criticisms 'Anti-Semitic' With 'Racist Undertones'

April 1st, 2023 11:22 AM

PBS NewsHour twice accused GOP critics of Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg and left-wing political donor George Soros of anti-Semitism on Friday’s show. Those doing the accusing were not cantankerous liberal guests, but host Amna Nawaz and White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez.