WashPost Puffs 1st Trans Lawyer at SCOTUS; NY Times Later Adds Reality

June 24th, 2025 10:46 AM

The headline deck to the June 16 piece by Jesús Rodríguez for the Washington Post, a profile of the first transgender lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court, heralded the gush to come: “Chase Strangio is trying to help trans people exist in Trump’s America”!

NPR Valorizes Old Left Protester: 'Crystalizing Moment' for Anti-Trump

June 23rd, 2025 9:32 AM

In Friday’s online NPR piece “The story behind the arrest of 87-year-old veteran John Spitzberg at the Capitol,” Alina Hartounian, who edits and writes for NPR.org, made a hero of an elderly activist protesting the recent U.S. military parade, who got arrested. NPR played the feisty old man angle hard to an embarrassing extent. The report began in medias res, the reporter striving to…

Video

PBS Turns Library of Congress Firing Into Censorship, Democracy Attack

June 22nd, 2025 10:25 PM

In May, President Trump fired Carla Hayden, the Obama-nominated head of the Library of Congress, and the PBS News Hour came to the defense of its tax-funded brethren on Friday evening. Setting up a previously recorded interview with Hayden, co-anchor Geoff Bennett called Hayden “a trailblazing Librarian of Congress” and said, “I traveled to Baltimore to speak with her about being…

Video

PBS's Theory on Violence: If GOP Runs Government, Why Must They Kill?

June 22nd, 2025 6:10 AM

On Friday’s edition of Amanpour & Co. on PBS, host Christiane Amanpour introduced journalist Hari Sreenivasan’s segment with UC-San Diego professor and self-styled extremism expert Barbara Walter. Despite support for left-wing violence from burning Tesla and Waymo cars by anti-Musk and anti-ICE rioters, despite the anti-Semitic killings and fire-bombings, the focus was almost…

Video

Capehart Claims GOP is Afraid 'Of Being Human' on Political Rhetoric

June 21st, 2025 9:50 AM

If one were only to watch Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour, they would come away with the impression that “rotten” political rhetoric is mainly a right-wing phenomenon. Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart went so far as to claim Republicans are afraid “of being human” on the matter.

Video

Jim Acosta Wants BIG $$$ Infusion to PBS and NPR, 'Too Big to Fail'

June 20th, 2025 2:27 PM

Earlier, we noted former CNN White House screamer Jim Acosta's appearance on Tuesday at a panel at the Center for American Progress. But it's still worth isolating Acosta's remarks on how there should be a big cash infusion into PBS and NPR, to make them "too big to fail."

Video

Amanpour Allows Iranian Minister to Rewrite History

June 19th, 2025 1:10 PM

PBS’s Christiane Amanpour sat down with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi on Tuesday to get his perspective on the ongoing war between Israel and Iran, but Amanpour’s usual mantra of being “truthful, not neutral” mostly took a back seat as she never challenged him on the regime’s anti-Semitic, eliminationist rhetoric or his rewriting of Iran-Iraq War history.

Video

Tinfoil Hat Capehart: LA Response Part of a Plan To Suspend Elections

June 14th, 2025 9:23 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart claimed on Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour that he knows the actual reason for President Trump’s response to rioting in Los Angeles and for Saturday’s Army parade in Washington. According to him, it is all part of a scheme that will eventually allow Trump to cancel elections.

PBS Turns to Left to Explain Trump's 'Alarming' L.A. Troop Deployment

June 14th, 2025 6:16 AM

Thursday night’s edition of the PBS News Hour turned to leftist group the Brennan Center for Justice and a liberal mayor as their experts to criticize President Trump’s use of the National Guard and U.S. Marines in Los Angeles and other cities to quell violence at protests against ICE’s arrest of illegal immigrants. 

NewsBusters Podcast: Defunding PBS/NPR Is Not a Cow Town's Nightmare

June 13th, 2025 10:35 PM

NewsBusters is taking a victory lap for the House vote to claw back funding for PBS and NPR. But The Washington Post went to my neck of Wisconsin and suggested this is bad because "other radio signals are staticky and internet service can be patchy." They'd be "poorer" without the "independent option" of NPR. That's the NPR PR.

GOP Vote to Defund CPB Skipped by ABC, NBC, NY Times, and WashPost

June 13th, 2025 2:09 PM

While conservatives at NewsBusters and elsewhere celebrate a major win as the House passed a rescission package that would claw back $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the liberal media didn’t greet that as a big deal at all.

Column: Endangered NPR Never Stops Ripping Conservatives

June 13th, 2025 3:45 AM

So the House Republicans voted to end taxpayer funding for PBS and NPR. NPR CEO Katherine Maher has repeatedly claimed, in the face of avalanches of evidence, that she has never witnessed any bias at NPR. That’s beyond ridiculous. You can find it, day after day, hour on the hour. This week’s Los Angeles rioting provided plenty of exhibits.

Video

Cabrera Hints PBS Needed Because Family Didn't Have Cable in the 80s

June 12th, 2025 1:43 PM

MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera grew up in the 80s, and the media landscape has changed a lot since then, but on her Thursday show, she implied her family’s inability to pay for cable as a child means Congress should not approve President Trump’s rescission package that seeks to defund PBS and NPR.

PBS Finds Mostly 'Non-Violent,' 'Festival-like' Atmosphere in L.A.

June 12th, 2025 10:02 AM

Tuesday’s PBS News Hour led off with special correspondent Marcia Biggs’ nearly nine-minute segment from downtown Los Angeles, ground zero in the confrontation between Trump’s immigration enforcement and protests that often devolved into looting and rioting. Co-anchors Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett noted that “700 Marines and 2,000 additional National Guard troops began arriving” on…