Capehart on Docs: Comparing Trump and Biden 'Apples and Basketballs'
Public television’s idea of a balanced political debate: Friday's PBS NewsHour punditry found little daylight between “conservative” New York Times columnist David Brooks and liberal Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart, nodding in agreement that the new Biden classified document controversy had no comparison to Trump’s.
On PBS, Journos Label House GOP As All 'Very Extreme,' Unlike Dems
On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co., PBS put on display the liberal media's tendency to view nearly all elected Republicans as "extreme," but not so much with Democrats.
PBS Claim: GOP ‘Immersed in...Far-Right Networks…Moscow to Budapest'
Under the graphic “Exporting Extremism,” PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett set the table to compare extremism among the right in the U.S. and Brazil in the opening moments of Wednesday evening’s show: New York University history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat joined the show’s White House correspondent as the News Hour engaged in yet another taxpayer-funded attempt to link "…
Did PBS Edit Out Amanpour Saying GOP Is 'Weaponizing...Governance'?
In the Monday edition of Amanpour & Co on PBS, host Christiane Amanpour spoke with guest Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) about Brazil, refugees, the Dreamers, and the House Speaker vote. Amanpour let Ramirez’s personal story as a first-generation immigrant stand in for actual journalism, while both host and guest compared the political chaos in Brazil to the Capitol riots of…
PBS Shrieks: All 20 McCarthy Vote Holdouts Were 'Election Deniers’
The Friday night edition of Amanpour & Co. on PBS, hosted by Bianna Golodryga, aired with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s elevation to Speaker still uncertain. Golodryga dubiously claimed that of the 20 holdouts denying McCarthy the House Speakership, “all 20 holdouts were all election deniers.”
PBS’s ‘Spectacular’ Smear of US Immigration Policy: ‘Racist...Journey'
As President Biden traveled to the Mexican border with a purported plan to stem the flow of refugees, public television is nudging the administration to the left to encourage and “embrace” refugees to come on up to America. In the PBS News Hour’s occasional "brief but spectacular" segment that closed the show on Sunday, a refugee from Nepal, Devashish Basnet, was given several minutes…
PBS Fearmongers: GOP ‘Threats to Democracy Remain,’ Like Speaker Vote?
Not even the loss in November’s congressional elections of many so-called election deniers has stopped PBS from fear-mongering about dangers to democracy. Thursday’s PBS NewsHour featured two hosts and two professors in total agreement about the ongoing perfidy of the Republican Party and the threat to democracy it poses, even as vital electoral reforms like the Electoral Count Reform…
CREEPY: OB-GYN Hypes Medication Abortion as 'Extrarordinarily Safe'
On Wednesday's PBS NewsHour, viewers received a bucket of happy talk about medication abortions from Dr. Jennifer Villavicencio. Twice, she insisted the use of mifepristone was "extraordinarily safe" -- but it's not safe for the unborn baby, who is expelled from the mother and killed.
PBS Pits McCarthy, ‘Hard-Line’ Right:‘Trump Is These People’s Demigod'
On the Tuesday edition of Amanpour & Co on PBS, host Christiane Amanpour interviewed former moderate Republican Rep. Will Hurd, who served three terms in office but didn’t seek reelection in 2020. Amanpour led off with the fight for Speaker of the House and with unsympathetic labeling of the “hard-line” opponents of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
PBS’s Cold Benedict Obit: ‘Controversial Reign Ended' With Resignation
When PBS marked the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on its Saturday evening news program, the obituary was dominated by a fierce anti-Benedict voice railing against the former pope’s alleged neglect of sex abuse cases among Catholic clergy. PBS News Weekend anchor John Yang introduced the story with a brute, unfriendly summing up of Benedict’s tenure: Catholics in mourning. Pope Emeritus…
PBS Offers Softballs to Democrat Leahy, Hardballs to Republican Davis
In the final week of 2022, the PBS NewsHour put on display the kind of double standard that the liberal media typically show in its treatment of Republicans and Democrats as defeated Republican Congressman Rodney Davis and retiring Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy were interviewed within days of one another.
Silly PBS Sendoff: Judy Woodruff Puffed as 'Neutral and Objective'
One of the silliest myths in TV newscasting is that objectivity is still a lodestar. As PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff was wrapping up her last show in the anchor chair on Friday, pundits David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart both pretended Woodruff exemplified neutrality. Do they think Republicans never watch this show?
PBS Drops Barrel of 'Far Right' Labels on New Netanyahu Team in Israel
Thursday's PBS NewsHour broke out every term for extremism in reporting on the new Israeli government. The online headline for the segment was "Netanyahu once again prime minister with most far-right government in Israel’s history."
Adieu to 2022: Here’s the Ten Most-Read NewsBusters Blogs of the Year
With only a few hardened leftists stuck on COVID-19, 2022 represented a year in which more Americans moved on and, thankfully for the team at NewsBusters, the liberal media continued to provide us plenty of content. For our top ten most-read blogs of the year, the topics included Biden’s mental state, the free state of Florida, Hollywood elitism, and Ukraine. For this year, the News Analysis…
