Public Broadcasting

It’s not just candidates on the ballot next Tuesday. Voters will also be presented with various ballot measures and on Tuesday, New York Times national correspondent and author Lisa Lerer teamed up with PBS’s Amanpour and Company co-host Hari Sreenivasan to advocate for the pro-abortion side in Idaho by lamenting that the abortion debate gets wrapped up “in this sort of morass of morality.”

In Saturday’s edition of the Austin-based PBS talk show Overheard With Evan Smith, Smith and guest Melissa Murray fretted about the state of the Constitution in the face of supposed threats posed by the Trump Administration, revealing their contempt for the Supreme Court in the process. NYU law professor and author Murray, who clerked for liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, also…

Is PBS’s Sarah Varney a “health care” correspondent, or abortion correspondent? She’s obsessively covered the state abortion-ban beat since Roe v. Wade was overturned, from Arkansas to Texas gathering sad stories on abortion denials. PBS’s post-Dobbs abortion coverage has been wholly focused on lost opportunities to abort, with the hardest cases nationwide reliably rounded up and presented as…

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett and National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru on Friday to react to the news that the DOJ is suing to prevent certification in Alaska’s Senate race should the margin end up being small enough where it could be argued that Imposter Dan Sullivan denied Sen. Dan Sullivan a victory. Capehart continued his new hobby of claiming the…

On Thursday's Morning Edition, NPR anchor A Martinez (not the soap-opera actor) interviewed expert Shira Efron on the closeness of President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Martinez guessed Trump was part or "all" of the reason Netanyahu's lagging in the polls in Israel. Efron had to say "actually, President Trump still enjoys very high approval ratings in Israel." DOH! …

As the midterms loom less than two weeks away, PBS News Hour co-host Geoff Bennett set the table Tuesday night with discussion about yet another “surprisingly close race” in a Red state, the moderate Republican stronghold of Kansas. Reporter William Brangham discussed the Senate race with Jared Cerullo of affiliate station PBS Kansas. 

There were No Labels in National Public Radio’s coverage of the “No Kings” rallies held on Saturday around the country: “No Kings draws crowds with focus on early voting” by Ava Berger, was posted to NPR Saturday, with text interspersed with many apparently fun (and perhaps filtered?) photos of the wacky anti-Trump hijinks, with no Communist flags or radical signs to be seen.

“Public” broadcasting demonstrates routinely that it cannot stand conservatives and their arguments. The spectrum of debate on their show is often from far left to liberal Democrat. This is especially comical on the NPR talk show Left Right & Center, where their October 16 show filled the “Right” side with…..Sarah Longwell, a former Republican who campaigned with and for Kamala Harris in…

This week’s Washington Week with The Atlantic hailed from Austin, Texas, the liberal heart of the state, before a live studio audience with presumably Democratic sympathies (much like the show’s television audience). A major theme of the discussion: The positive prospects of the state’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Texas State Rep. James Talarico, neck and neck in polls with the…

Longtime CNN correspondent and host Christiane Amanpour responded to CNN's merger into Skydance by announcing she was "separating" from CNN (and by extension PBS), following through on her commitments that wrap up next June. She is a natural candidate to walk away now that "good old days" of leftist bias might be waning.

PBS’s Michel Martin welcomed the father-daughter duo of Director David Greaves and Producer Liana Greaves to Friday’s edition of Amanpour and Company to promote their new documentary, Once Upon a Time in Harlem, about the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. However, Martin wasn’t just interested in discussing the history. She had to find a way to make it about President Trump, which David and…

PBS joined the other networks in negatively spinning the official inflation numbers, which were comparatively tame compared to inflation during the Biden years. Former Washington Post columnist turned Navy Federal Credit Union economist Heather Long popped up again on Wednesday’s PBS News Hour to discuss the latest inflation report. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett led the show by filtering the figures…

NPR trashes conservative extremists, but finds left-wing extremists exciting. On Thursday’s Morning Edition, Muslim co-host Leila Fadel interviewed radical Islamist/Marxist Hasan Piker. The home page promoted the interview and its headline: “Hasan Piker isn't worried about being a political boogeyman this midterms season.”

National Public Radio’s domestic extremism correspondent Odette Yousef, whose reporting solely sees extremism on the right, on Thursday filed “For some Christians, Hegseth’s plan for public execution fits a biblical mandate" on NPR.org, about the previously proposed idea of livestreaming the execution of Nidal Hasan, an Islamic terrorist who killed 14 people in 2009 at Fort Hood in Texas.