Public Broadcasting

A taxpayer-funded sob story about federal workers being cruelly required to return to work at (gasp!) the office every single day aired earlier this week on National Public Radio’s show Morning Edition, headlined “Trump wants federal workers back the office, meaning longer days and added expenses.” But the single example offered wasn't exactly the stuff of a…

NPR doesn't exist to promote books by Fox News hosts, but they're an easy mark for MSNBC personalities. Rachel Maddow count on it. On January 27, Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep awarded seven minutes to All In host Chris Hayes to promote his new book The Sirens' Call, mourning "the assault of attention capitalism."

PBS News Hour ran full stories on the hearings for Kash Patel to head the FBI, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services. All suffered bruising and sometimes bipartisan criticism, and the coverage was deeply unfavorable to all three nominees. Gabbard perhaps got the worst of it, with tough questioning about…

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart had an eventful time on Friday’s installment of PBS NewsHour. First, Capehart did his typical thing where he alleged President Trump’s recent press conference included “some of the most racist things I have ever heard come out of the White House.” Later, he said something so absurd that the usually amenable New York Times…

Now that Trump is in his second term, a few rare voices have floated the novel concept that to combat cratering trust in media, there should be attempts at balance. NPR preferred the ravings of ex-CNN reporter Oliver Darcy, who is smearing the current press corps as a pro-Trump horror movie.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr opened up a probe of NPR and PBS Thursday over their airing of commercial announcements. The New York Times warned of a “politicized” debate over public broadcasting. To suggest it tilts left "politicizes" it. But somehow, to tilt left is....not politicizing things?

One of the media’s worst habits is its urge to contradict everything President Donald Trump says simply because he says them. NPR had a rather comical example of this phenomena on Wednesday as it ran a headline saying Trump was wrong to say two astronauts on the International Space Station are stranded despite three previous NPR articles saying they were stranded.

The average American awards some amount of undeserved prestige to "public" TV and radio merely by the branding of "public," like it's for all the people. But PBS and NPR are not acting for the entire "public." They are taxpayer-subsidized propaganda, and they often ignore or downplay news events that they do not support. Exhibit A for Abortion: the annual March for Life, which draws…

PBS News Weekend unveiled a galling story Sunday evening under the online headline, “Study finds gender-affirming care for minors is very rare, refuting political narrative.” Taxpayer-funded "public" broadcasting is all about "refuting" conservative narratives...with money from conservative taxpayers. 

When you see that PBS News Hour’s most biased reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez, has filed a 10-minute-long overview of the history of immigration policies in the United States, you arrive prepared for an onslaught of bias on an issue Barron-Lopez has been particularly liberal on. So it was a pleasant surprise to find that Tuesday’s report actually took a balanced look at the topic.  

For the first Brooks and Capehart segment of Donald Trump 2.0 on Friday’s PBS NewsHour, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart alleged that “the Laken Riley Act and other things” are instilling fear in immigrant families, even those who are not “undocumented.”

Monday night’s PBS airing of Amanpour & Co., featured guest host Paula Newton of CNN talking to Harvard professor Imani Perry about the disturbing coincidence of Martin Luther King Jr. Day coinciding with the inauguration of Donald Trump. Host Paula Newton: "This party is really at the center of significant backlash towards the struggles for diversity and inclusion in America,…

Irony died multiple deaths on Thursday’s edition of Amanpour and Company on PBS. First, host Christiane Amanpour and Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb lamented that social media companies are moving away from fact-checking, which, they said, will make it harder to hold the government accountable, despite their own historical difficulties with the truth. Second, they worried…

On Monday, PBS News Hour’s White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez called up the liberal media’s campaign-period name-calling of re-elected President Trump as “the convicted felon,” while skating over Biden’s preemptive family pardons. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz launched the festival of excuse-making on outgoing President Biden’s behalf: "President Trump's second term officially kick-starts…