PBS Jokes About Putting Kimmel's Profanity-Laced Slogan On a Tote Bag

January 16th, 2026 2:23 PM

Over the past year and a half, public broadcasting and the late night comedy shows have formed an alliance. Some comedians hold fundraisers or advocate for public media on their shows. Public media then in turn hosts the comedians on their own shows and honors them by giving them awards. The latest development in this exercise in mutual liberal back-patting came on Thursday as ABC’s Jimmy…

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Defeatist Tone Creeps Into PBS Propaganda on Trans Push In Sports

January 16th, 2026 5:38 AM

Tuesday’s PBS News Hour covered the Supreme Court taking up two cases involving boys competing in girls' sports. The News Hour performed its usual pro-LGBTQ+ propaganda, even without Laura Barron-Lopez, now ensconced at left-wing MS Now. The pro-trans favoritism and word-choice remains, though perhaps a little defeatism has crept into the tone.

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Seven Shows Into 2026, Kimmel Finally Tells a Joke About Liberals

January 15th, 2026 12:02 PM

In 2025, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and his summer guest hosts told a measly 87 liberal jokes over 156 episodes, or about one liberal joke every two episodes. This year, the trend has continued with Wednesday’s show being the seventh of the year, but the first in which Kimmel told his first two liberal jokes and even then they were in the context of lamenting that President Trump has defunded PBS.

NPR Relies on LGBTQ+ Activist to 'Report' on Trans Arguments at SCOTUS

January 15th, 2026 6:47 AM

Two highly anticipated cases involving transgender athletes -- i.e. biological men suing for the right to compete in women’s sports came -- before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, with opinions on the cases expected by the end of June. National Public Radio’s All Things Considered covered the opening arguments on Sunday. NPR’s idea of an objective reporter? Transgender (biological female…

NPR Distorts Trans Debate With Activist Lingo: 'Assigned Sex at Birth'

January 13th, 2026 10:29 PM

National Public Radio legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg previewed oral arguments in two Supreme Court cases involving transgender females (i.e., males) participating in female sports on NPR’s Morning Edition Tuesday. Totenberg approached the issue as if the Supreme Court started this skirmish in the “culture wars,” as opposed to the radical “gender-affirming” side that…

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Why 'PBS News Weekend' Won't Be Missed: ICE a 'Threat to Democracy'

January 12th, 2026 3:55 PM

The PBS News Weekend show is winding down due to PBS's loss of federal funding, with its final episode appearing Sunday, January 11. Check out what will be missing: "Demonstrators in hundreds of cities and towns took to the streets in a mass protest dubbed the "ICE Out for Good Weekend of Action." Some protesters say "the threat to democracy is just as urgent."

NPR Critic: 2026 Media Scene Looks 'Ominous' If Trump Isn't Thrashed

January 12th, 2026 3:00 PM

NPR Critic-at-Large Eric Deggans penned a pessimistic media analysis for Saturday: "2026 looks ominous for media, from Hollywood to journalism." That means an ominous Trumpian trend, but it's amusing how liberal bias aggressively opposing Trump is considered a "gold standard" of "fair, accurate reporting." 

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PBS Helps MS NOW's Soboroff Blame Trump and Musk for L.A. Wildfires

January 11th, 2026 7:50 PM

On Friday night's PBS News Hour -- two nights after they devoted nine minutes to recovery efforts on the Los Angeles wildfires without mentioning Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom or the word "Democrats" -- they promoted a new book by MS NOW reporter Jacob Soboroff that mostly blames Donald Trump and Elon Musk for causing the most damage with their "disinformation."

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PBS Maintains Hostile Anti-ICE Tone Over 3 Days of Minnesota Coverage

January 11th, 2026 7:01 AM

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good in her SUV during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday, after giving her an order to get out of the car which she failed to obey, instead trying to leave the scene in her car, resulting in the fatal shooting. Throughout its coverage, PBS leaned heavily on a selection of facts…

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Brooks: Won't Judge Minneapolis, But ICE Has Acted 'Like Thugs'

January 10th, 2026 9:50 AM

The trio of PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks assembled on Friday to discuss the situation in Minneapolis. While Bennett failed in his moderating duties to mention new evidence that would seem to justify the ICE agent acting in self-defense, Capehart was still certain that he was in the wrong. Brooks,…

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PBS Revises History, Tries Making Atomic Bomb Debate About Journalists

January 9th, 2026 2:26 PM

It is well known that the media likes to make themselves the main character of every story they can, but Tuesday’s PBS American Experience documentary about the atomic bombings on Japan took things to a whole new level. The main takeaway for PBS’s assembled cast of BlueSky historians is not that the narrative we tell ourselves about the necessity of the bombs is true, but rather that…

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PBS Puts On Paranoid Professor to Mark January 6 As 'Phase of Fascism'

January 8th, 2026 10:21 PM

The subject line to the promo email for Tuesday’s Amanpour & Co. on PBS marked the one riot the left didn’t get behind: “Fascism Expert Jason Stanley on the 5th Anniversary of Jan. 6 Capitol Attack.” Stanley is a favored guest on PBS, NPR and the left-wing MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) -- which gives a hint where PBS News lies on the ideological spectrum -- and Bianna Golodryga…

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PBS Recounts SLOW Rebuild from L.A. Wildfires, But No Dems Mentioned!

January 8th, 2026 3:13 PM

Several networks aired stories on the anniversary of the disastrous fires in Los Angeles, but none was as remarkably partisan as the PBS News Hour. In nearly nine minutes of reporting, PBS correspondent Stephanie Sy could never bring herself to utter the following words: "Democrats," "Mayor Karen Bass," or "Governor Gavin Newsom." 

NPR Faults Trump Calling Maduro 'Dictator' After Smearing Him Same Way

January 6th, 2026 8:25 AM

National Public Radio’s Morning Edition offered a petulant rundown of the shocking and wildly successful involuntary expatriation of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro from Caracas to face drug trafficking charges in America (“7 takeaways from Trump's action in Venezuela”). Senior political editor Domenico Montanaro unleashed this doozy of a double-standard for entry No. 4, sub-headed…