PBS Defends Macklemore's Anti-Israel Rants to Captive Concert Audience
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour picked up the controversy over the concert tour by U.K. singer Ed Sheeran and his opening act, a rapper named Macklemore, who caused controversy by ranting about “Free Palestine” and “genocide” to a captive audience there for Sheeran, causing Macklemore to be kicked off the tour. PBS filtered its coverage through a pro-Palestinian mindset, suggesting Sheeran had caved…
PBS Washington Week: 'AI's Threats to Humanity Reached a Fever Pitch'
Washington Week with The Atlantic was guest hosted on Friday by PBS News Hour White House correspondent Liz Landers, who in the lead segment made one miss the (relative) restraint (occasionally) exercised by the regular show host Jeffrey Goldberg. On the threat of artificial intelligence, Landers assumed the absolute worst-case A.I scenario, then turned on President Trump for his supposed…
NPR's Extremism Reporter: Kirk's Murder Led to Doxxing by the Right
NPR’s Weekend Edition story by “domestic extremism correspondent" Odette Yousef once again only spied extremists on the right side of the ideological divide, and ridiculously implied that conservatives invented “doxxing” -- revealing private information about a person online toward hostile ends -- after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Yousef’s story began at Utah Valley…
NPR Slams 'Ugly' GOP 'Bigotry' and 'Hate Speech' on Radical Islam
It was jarring on Thursday to hear NPR Morning Edition anchor A Martinez open an hour of the “newscast” warning about anti-Muslim “lies” from Republicans.
Capehart Defends MS NOW: We 'Hold Power Accountable'
Whether he’s hosting an MS NOW show or contributing to Friday editions of PBS News Hour, Jonathan Capehart is your typical liberal pundit who says crazy things about Republicans while doing his best to help Democrats succeed. However, after President Trump banned MS NOW from the White House on Friday, Capehart sought to defend his employer on News Hour by claiming the network’s job is to…
Canadian Socialists Are Not Leading the 'Free World'
Loathing of President Trump and his trade wars has launched Canadian prime minister Mark Carney into the socialist stratosphere. Try not to laugh at this headline from Rolling Stone Canada: “How Mark Carney Became Leader of the Free World by Standing Up to Trump.” This is the hot anti-Trump take: socialists can run the “Free World” while they impose socialism globally.
PBS Dual Citizen Journo Puffs Up Iranian Regime, Downplays Opposition
Based in Tehran, journalist and special correspondent, Reza Sayah, wanted to set the record straight on the happenings in Iran on Wednesday’s PBS’ NewsHour. But according to him, the regime was in a good place, they had more support from the people than ever with no opposition in the streets, and they were very generous to journalists like him.
PBS: 'Comedy is a Serious Response' To ICE Creating 'Second Pandemic
Liberal journalists’ love for liberal comedians is not confined to the late night comedy shows. On Monday, PBS arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown sat down with comedian Jenny Yang, who he declared is using comedy as “a serious response” to the Trump administration’s immigration policies that Yang herself would call “a second pandemic.”
PBS Labels Borders, EPA Deregulation 'End Times Fascism'
Tuesday’s edition of Amanpour and Company on PBS should have been called “Everything I Don't Like Is Fascism" because co-host Bianna Golodryga welcomed authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor to promote their new book, End Times Fascism, where they argued that simple things such as borders and EPA deregulation were part of a plot orchestrated by fascists to bring about an end of the world.
Amanpour Claims 9/11 Was 'The Beginning Of Intense Islamophobia'
Christiane Amanpour, the eponymous host of PBS’s Amanpour and Company, reflected on the 25 years since 9/11 on Friday by claiming the attack was “the beginning of intense Islamophobia” in America, which continues to be “so visceral and last to this day.” Meanwhile, Prof. Vali Nasr would naturally agree while also claiming the Bush administration and 20 years of American foreign policy reacted…
PBS Hails Abortion Militant Steinem: Trailblazing' 'Pioneer,' 'Icon'
The PBS News Hour marked the passing of left-wing feminist and abortion militant Gloria Steinem with coverage more akin to heroine worship than journalism. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett opened Thursday’s edition: “We remember feminist icon Gloria Steinem, a trailblazer who helped transform the fight for women`s rights and equality and whose influence spanned generations.” After that opening tease,…
PBS Campaigns For Democrats: 'It Is About Affordability'
PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart essentially openly campaigned on Friday on behalf of Democrats by offering up visions of a more affordable America should Democrats win in November.
PBS Whines GOP Weaponizing 'Anti-Islamic Rhetoric' Against El-Sayed
After discussing the Republican Party’s strained relationship with President Trump and next week’s GOP midterm convention, nicknamed by some as Trump-a-palooza, the PBS News Hour “Politics Monday” talk turned to the U.S. Senate race in Michigan and controversial Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, and co-anchor Amna Nawaz fiercely defended El-Sayed against “anti-Islamic rhetoric.”
PBS Blames Jim Crow for Lack of 'Universal, Simple Benefit Systems'
The Atlantic staff writer Annie Lowrey joined PBS’s Amanpour and Company on Tuesday to allege that the reason why the United States does not have “universal, simple benefit systems” like universal basic income or single-payer health care is because of the legacy of Jim Crow.
