Public Broadcasting

The crossover that no one asked for came together on Tuesday as CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, joined The New Yorker editor and NPR host David Remnick for a New York Public Radio fundraiser for an exercise in mutual back patting in the aftermath of Colbert’s cancellation and public media’s defunding.

HBO’s John Oliver rehashed many of the old and familiar arguments in defense of public broadcasting on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, but because Oliver views himself as a man of action, he announced an auction to help save public media because otherwise “people would die.” Things Oliver put up for sale included, but were not limited to, actor Russell Crowe’s jockstrap, his cabbage wife…

When PBS hosts a talk show where they interview PBS star Ken Burns, you know it’s going to be like an infomercial for Burns Incorporated. It’s especially appalling when the program has stolen the title Firing Line, which used to be a show hosted by a staunch conservative. Margaret Hoover did not bring anything conservative to challenging this elitist network’s hero. Instead, she set…

PBS omnipresence Ken Burns debuted his six-part, 12-hour series The American Revolution Sunday evening and will air through November 21. Sympathetic journalists were eager to see parallels of the colonists fight for independence and Trump’s opponents rebelling against an authoritarian leader.

In its efforts to find every anti-Trump story line it can, the PBS News Hour is touting members of the military who are seeking outside legal advice about whether the missions assigned by the Trump administration are legally justified, starting with the drug-boat bombings.

President Trump’s declaration that the U.S. would not attend the G20 summit in South Africa, citing the killing of white Afrikan farmers, inspired a furious reaction from NPR’s Kate Bartlett on All Things Considered, in “Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa.” "He ambushed the country's president Cyril Ramaphosa during a White…

As President Trump prepares to sue the BBC for deceptively editing his words on January 6, 2021, to make it appear like he urged violence, PBS’s Christiane Amanpour said on her Friday podcast, The Ex Files, that the idea that the BBC is biased is “probably wrong” and that her own network is “an absolute must” have for the American people.

PBS superstation WETA and its subsidiary News Hour Productions are ending broadcasts of PBS News Weekend in early January. The "public" broadcasting news site Current reported it's "part of a restructuring prompted by the rescission of federal funding for public media."

PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour and former Vice President Al Gore continued their combined efforts to get the American people to subscribe to climate alarmism on Wednesday's Amanpour and Company as the duo lamented the lack of interest from the Trump administration in the ongoing COP30 summit in Brazil. At one point in the interview, Amanpour would drop all pretense of journalism and…

Tuesday’s PBS News Hour committed some serious bias by omission in Stephane Sy’s report from the campus of UCLA, home to actual Jew exclusion zones during the 2024 wave of pro-Hamas protests that plagued progressive college campuses. This August, UCLA settled with three Jewish students and a Jewish professor over the university failing to protect their civil rights against…

PBS’s newest Frontline documentary, “The Rise of Germany's New Right” concerns the rise of the AfD in Germany (Alternative for Germany) party and it’s supposed links to Nazism and Putin's Russia. Germany’s migrant problem surged after 2015, when former Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the borders to people fleeing the Syrian war. Over three million refugees and asylum seekers have…

The last month has been difficult for MSNBC host and PBS News Hour contributor Jonathan Capehart’s intellectual consistency, as he can’t decide whether the government shutdown is proof that Democrats are finally growing a spine or, as he claimed on Friday, whether “there’s a meanness and a cruelty” to the shutdown that is all Republicans’ fault.

Thursday’s edition of PBS’s Amanpour and Company went off the rails when guest host Bianna Golodryga welcomed The Atlantic staff writer David Graham to discuss supposed threats to next year’s midterm elections. The duo would muse about everything from Marines seizing ballot boxes to the idea that the elections will be the fake sort that you get in places like Russia, but no…

The PBS News Hour hailed the new book Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department, co-written by Aaron Davis of the Washington Post and Carol Leonnig, now at MSNBC after 25 years at the Post and co-author of two previous anti-Trump books. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett interviewed the pair on Tuesday’s News Hour. The…