Public Broadcasting

National Public Radio regularly crosses the line separating pro-abortion bias (practically a given at elitist media outlets) to outright abortion advocacy, painting it as a useful health care procedure in two stories. Kate Wells reported Wednesday on the question dear to the heart of NPR: “As abortion access shrinks, could urgent care centers help?”, a story by Kate Wells: "Providing abortions…

MS NOW star Rachel Maddow should have extra time to prepare her long lecturing monologues on Monday night, since she's only doing one show a week for a reported $25 million a year (nice work if you can get it). But on April 6, she borrowed from an NPR story to underline how the Trump administration is mistreating the veterans. It's too bad she didn't actually seem to read the whole article…

PBS debuted a new two-part documentary on Tuesday by Lucy Worsley that seeks to cover the American Revolution from the British perspective and how its series of missteps led to the loss of the colonies. At one point in part one, Worsley interviewed Prof. Olivette Otele in a segment that sounded like it came out of The 1619 Project, as both suggested the Dunmore Proclamation had a lot to do…

On April 3, National Public Radio’s own “public editor” admitted the network had ignored Jewish voices after the nearly deadly attack on a synagogue in Michigan, while sympathetically promoting Hezbollah voices of families killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, as if that would in any way justify the attack. It’s part of a pattern of NPR's regional coverage. NPR’s Leila Fadel talked to Dr.…

National Public Radio recently aired two frankly sexist episodes of its race-based podcast Code Switch, hosted by B.A. Parker and Gene Demby. The April 1 edition: “'Mar-a-Lago face': MAGA's aesthetic loyalty test." This sexist angle, which NPR surely wouldn’t tolerate from the right, was barely skimmed on the show or by its guest from the left-wing magazine Mother Jones.

For a segment ostensibly about the (eventually successful) search-and-rescue mission for an airman downed over Iran, Friday’s PBS News Hour platformed a source who less than two weeks ago went on a radical radio show to accuse Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of enabling war crimes in Iran -- and who also snuck in his radical anti-war points into his PBS discussion about rescue.

NPR “public editor” Kelly McBride usually investigates complaints from coverage from die-hard NPR fans – meaning laments that NPR hasn’t been sufficiently leftist. But on April 2, one of the three complaints she answered was from the “unwoke.” She admitted that NPR didn't air voices of those targeted in a Michigan synagogue attack...after they went to the attempted killer's hometown in Lebanon…

Friday’s roundtable on MS NOW’s The 11th Hour concluded by naming their MVPs of the week and there were some interesting selections. MS NOW’s online editor Anthony Fisher selected Judge Randolph Moss for his nonsensical ruling that said NPR and PBS are private companies and that President Trump’s defunding of them violated the First Amendment. Meanwhile, Independent Veterans of…

The trio of PBS News Hour anchor Amna Nawaz, The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks, and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart appeared ready to pronounce defeat on Friday as they juxtaposed President Trump’s Iran speech earlier in the week to the day’s news that saw an American F-15 and Black Hawk helicopter go down in Iran.

PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour kicked off her Thursday show by suggesting remarks President Trump made in his Wednesday address on Iran have made ordinary Iranians angry at him. However, Amanpour provided no evidence for that, and it is likely she was just parroting various regime hacks she saw on X, which is otherwise banned for ordinary Iranians.

By a surprising, landslide 8-1 majority vote, the Supreme Court tossed out on free-speech grounds Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy -- volunteer talk therapy designed to change a person's attraction to same-sex individuals, or cure gender dysphoria. The single dissent came from the court’s most liberal justice. NPR's Nina Totenberg pushed that view.

The newspapers routinely play Hide the Ideology when liberal judges are resisting President Trump. They’ll write “A federal judge” ruled against Trump, and not tell consumers that the judge is a liberal. Liberals are always painted as nonpartisans when they act like partisans. So it was for an Obama-appointed judge ruling in favor of NPR and PBS.

National “Public” Radio announced a formal move into video with a new video podcast called NPR Newsmakers. The NPR YouTube page has been doing plenty of these half-hour “deep dives” in recent months, most noticeably with Democrat politicians who are pondering a run for president in 2028.

Thursday’s PBS News Hour segment on “extreme weather events” turned out even more bluntly unscientific than the channel’s usual apocalyptic environmental “Tipping Point” fare, with reporter Ali Rogin’s “climate change” screed equating temporary weather patterns with dangerous climate change -- at least when the show and its climate guest cherry-pick the hottest spots on the map. …