Public Broadcasting

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…

PBS News Hour’s coverage Tuesday of the death of former Republican vice president Dick Cheney wasn't particularly generous for an obituary, bookended with belittling jabs at Cheney from both anchor and reporter. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: “….and we examine the life of the highly…

The PBS News Hour devoted the first 14 minutes of Monday’s show to the supposedly dire emergency that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP benefits, known colloquially as food stamps) ran out two days ago during the ongoing federal government “shutdown” before a ruling that the government must fund the food aid. First up, a Lisa Desjardins report from various food banks…

As part of their breaking-news coverage of Dick Cheney's death, NPR's Morning Edition turned to Jonah Goldberg. Anchor Steve Inskeep had to make it about Trump. Goldberg said Cheney must have felt that Trump was "a little bit like a Frankenstein's monster," running roughshod over his arguments for an energetic executive branch and a muscular military.