Public Broadcasting
PBS Hails Gaza Deal, But Freaks Out Over James Indictment
The Friday evening cast of PBS News Hour featuring moderator Geoff Bennett, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks briefly broke character to heap praise on President Trump for his role in securing a ceasefire agreement that will see Israeli hostages return home. However, the trio quickly reverted back to form and freaked out that New York…
PBS Invites Leftist Oliver Darcy to Smear 'Dishonest' Bari Weiss
Paramount Skydance, the giant media conglomerate which owns CBS, recently acquired the iconoclastic news site The Free Press, and just announced that FP’s founder Bari Weiss will become editor-in-chief of CBS News, causing conniption fits in legacy media newsrooms. Monday’s PBS News Hour brought on the perfect PBS News Hour type of guest to discuss the move. Oliver…
PBS Pushes Leftist Librarians Claiming 'Book Bans' -- No Opposing View
On Sunday’s PBS News Weekend, anchor John Yang introduced a self-satisfied segment on a new documentary from the literary, so-called free speech advocates at Pen America, based on the misnomer that books are being “banned” from schools and public libraries, as opposed to being removed due to concerns over age appropriateness regarding explicit sexual content.
STUDY: Be My (Leftist) Guest Again: Defunding Didn't Stop PBS TILT
On the April 16 PBS News Hour, as federal funding for both PBS and NPR was coming under heavy fire, co-PBS News Hour, co-anchor Amna Nawaz boasted that on her program, “we regularly invite and host conservative and Republican voices.” But is that true? Two new Media Research Center studies tracked and labeled every guest who appeared on the PBS News Hour and NPR’s…
Atlantic Mag's PBS Roundtable: Shutdown Shows 'Cruelty Is the Point'
The Atlantic’s take-over of PBS’s weekly journalist roundtable has formed a closed circle of liberal grievance. After Washington Week with The Atlantic moderator Jeffrey Goldberg cracked jokes about Rep. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) comment about Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought wanting to shut down the government “since puberty,” Goldberg turned to his Atlantic …
NPR's Evening Newscast Guest List TILTS Dramatically Left, 53 to 3
NPR CEO Katherine Maher told Congress they should "serve Americans across the full political spectrum" in a nonpartisan fashion. They don't. We studied the guests appearing on NPR’s news show All Things Considered for two months starting on July 19, the day after Congress rescinded taxpayer funding for NPR, and it wasn't nonpartisan. It tilted 53 to 3 toward liberals and Democrats.…
NPR Searches for Sympathy in South Dakota: ‘Lot of Tears' Over Cuts
National Public Radio’s media reporter David Folkenflik reported from Harrisburg, South Dakota on Friday from a football tailgate, where he uncovered Trump voters who supported taxpayer funded public broadcasting of NPR and PBS. South Dakota is a telling choice, one of those sparsely populated red states where the people supposedly rely on NPR for the farm report or emergency weather…
PBS Defunded of Humor Too? Trump's 'RACIST Videos' of Hakeem Jeffries
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour featured dueling Democrat-Republican interviews on the government shutdown, from House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Rep. Mike Haridopolos (R-FL). Can you spot the difference? Nawaz: "We have also seen the president continue to post these racist videos with a sombrero superimposed on Leader Jeffries' head. Why does he keep posting those? What's…
Capehart Gets Triggered When Told Shutdown Is Bad For Democracy
A Friday episode of PBS News Hour where New York Times columnist David Brooks manages to actually say something that fully triggers MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart is a rare occurrence, but this Friday Capehart could not tolerate the idea that Democrats are the ones corroding democracy with their government shutdown.
PBS, Fonda Whine IED-Wielding Pipeline Activists Are Called Terrorists
There is something about eco-terrorism and pipelines that seems to get public broadcasting excited. The latest installment in this series came on Thursday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS as actress and far-left activist Jane Fonda lamented to host Christiane Amanpour that people who used IEDs at a North Dakota pipeline protest have been “called domestic terrorists.” Of course, neither…
Capehart Does a 180 On Trump Sending The National Guard To Memphis
It might be hard to definitively say what the number one example of Trump Derangement Syndrome is, but MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart’s Thursday meltdown on Chris Jansing Reports that alleged President Trump and his administration are shredding the constitution with federal law enforcement operations in Memphis, Tennessee, is certainly a top contender. What made Capehart’s descent into…
PBS Hails Springsteen's Treason Slur as Trump 'Targets' Arts, Speech
The artsy self-regard was off the charts on Monday’s PBS News Hour, whose producers surely felt blessed that they were able to work into their “Arts in Action” segment, Bruce Springsteen’s surprise appearance at a New York film festival the night before, in which he called the Trump administration “treasonous.”
On PBS, Steve Hayes Taps Brakes on Lefty Hysteria On Comey Indictment
The impassioned discussion on Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic of course involved the Trump administration’s decision to indict former FBI director James Comey for lying to Congress. Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg set the scene: "The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey represents an important Rubicon crossed. Never in modern history has the president used the tools of…
GUESS Which Network Celebrated the 'Black Liberation' Cop Killer?
The New York Times reported on the death of Assata Shakur, but remembered her now as a "Convicted Revolutionary." The Black Liberation Army extremist killed state trooper Werner Foerster in a 1973 shootout. But the prize for praising a cop killer went to….National “Public” Radio. Their obituary was headlined "Black liberation activist Assata Shakur has died at 78." They called her a…
