Public Broadcasting

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. …

NPR reporter Rachel Treisman relied on politicized "science" to muddy the waters on Thursday’s Morning Edition in a story headlined “The Olympic committee bans trans athletes from women's events, raising many questions.” She questioned the common-sense decision of the Olympics to not allow biological men to unfairly compete against women in the 2028 games.

PBS News Hour co-host Geoff Bennett turned up on The Jim Acosta Show to promote his new book on black comedy titled Black Out Loud. Bennett and Acosta were both White House reporters in Trump's first term. After talking all about The Cosby Show and In Living Color, Acosta felt compelled to gush over PBS to a rather overenthusiastic degree. 

On March 24, PBS stations debuted a long negative campaign commercial disguised as a documentary titled White With Fear, on how “America’s conservative political machine uses racial fault lines to gain power.” The 85-minute film starts with Nixon’s campaigns, then goes on a tear against Fox News, Islamophobia after 9/11, birtherism against Obama, the Tea Party, and then into the Trump…

As America’s semiquincentennial rolls around, is the Trump Administration whitewashing the evils of America’s history? The PBS News Hour thinks so. On their “Politics Monday” segment with pollster Amy Walter and NPR’s Tamara Keith, co-host Geoff Bennett asked his guests about the White House installing a statute of Christopher Columbus on the grounds.

On Monday's Morning Edition newscast, NPR justice correspondent Carrie Johnson offered a tribute to Robert Mueller, the former FBI Director and special counsel in the "Russian collusion" probe of Trump. The collusion probe was the final third of the segment. At the end, NPR replayed audio of a leftist "Need to Impeach" ad to underline Mueller's congressional testimony after his report…

Friday’s PBS News Hour featured a taped interview between co-anchor Amna Nawaz and New York City’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani. Would there be hard-hitting questions about Mamdani’s previous silence on anti-Semitism? His pro-Hamas, October 7 rape-denying wife? His ominous promise to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism”? No chance.…