NPR's 'Fresh Air' Compares Kimmel Suspension to McCarthyism
NPR’s Fresh Air lived down to its reputation as a Trump-hating leftist bubble on Wednesday as they discussed their hero Jimmy Kimmel. Host Terry Gross brought on former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron and New York Times legal reporter Adam Liptak. It took Baron three sentences to compare Kimmel’s brief suspension to the Army-McCarthy hearings.
Column: Beware 'Public Media' Advocating for Violent Antifa Radicals
President Trump issued an Executive Order designating Antifa as a “domestic terrorism organization.” Our "public" broadcasters are some of the most enthustiastic bamboozlers for Antifa. They're just a "scapegoat" for Trump.
PBS: After Kirk's Murder, Trump Using Govt. to 'Crack Down on Dissent'
Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic featured regular roundtable journalist Vivian Salama of The Atlantic discussing the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, or rather, the GOP’s supposedly frightening and hypocritical reactions to Kirk’s assassination: "President Trump puts television networks on notice and stokes fears that he`s using the government to…
BS at PBS: 'Conservative Pundit....Matthew Dowd Was Fired' From MSNBC
The assassination of Charlie Kirk, conservative activist and debater and founder of Turning Point USA, unleashed loads of objectionable coverage from the legacy press, some appalling, some ridiculous, some ignorant, like this this take on a disgusting comment by Matthew Dowd on MSNBC, by anchor Amna Nawaz on the September 15 PBS News Hour: "Conservative pundit and former Bush staffer…
NPR 'Domestic Extremism' Reporter WON'T Find Extremes in Kirk's Killer
NPR’s “domestic extremism” correspondent Odette Yousef once again muddied the waters after an ideologically motivated shooting, this time in order to avoid having to blame the left for the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Yousef’s Thursday morning filing at NPR.org, “Why was Kirk killed? Evidence paints complicated picture of alleged assassin.”
'We're In It': Capehart Announces Authoritarianism Has Arrived
PBS News Hour’s weekly Friday segment with New York Times columnist David Brooks and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart focused exclusively on ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and the idea that censorship and authoritarianism are big problems. Brooks took a sort of centrist position where he condemned Kimmel and the late night industry as a whole but denounced the suspension, while…
Nets Gave Nearly 2x Coverage to Pre-Election Jobs Vs. Jobs Revision
Remember that blowout September 2024 jobs report the broadcast networks slobbered over in October just before the presidential election? Well, the government admitted last week to a big whoopsie in configuring the jobs numbers. Sure enough, ABC CBS and NBC were clearly not as keen on letting viewers know they just mindlessly swallowed up what the Biden administration spit out for political…
Pathetic PBS: ‘Critics Are Alarmed About the Influence of PragerU…’
Monday’s PBS News Hour alerted its viewers to a new right-wing threat: Education videos? “Why critics are alarmed about the influence of PragerU’s educational videos," the online heading read. “Alarmed” is a strong word, a promise that journalist Stephanie Sy’s actual report failed to fulfill, Noteworthy that it’s PragerU’s right-leaning world-view expressed in the educational videos…
PBS: Conservatives Doxxing Kirk Ghouls vs. Citizen Investigators of J6
Saturday’s PBS News Hour accused conservatives of doxxing the ghouls who celebrated the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA. The criticism came up in a conversation between substitute host/reporter Lisa Desjardins and…
NYT's Accidental Case for Defunding NPR: Balance to Right-Wing Radio?
In “NPR and PBS Must Transform After Trump’s Cuts Cripple Broadcasters,” which appeared in Sunday’s New York Times, reporters Benjamin Mullin, Jack Healy, and David Chen unwittingly justified the defunding of those taxpayer-funded media outlets that conservatives have been advocating for decades.
Atlantic Show On PBS TRASHES Kirk As Racist Symbol of 'Toxic Culture'
No one should think PBS is an oasis of civility. On Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, the liberal gang typically rained fire on conservatives in general and the late Charlie Kirk in particular. No one had a critical word for rhetorical extremism on the left, and there was really no focus on the killer.
NPR Whines Over Firings of Leftist Ghouls Celebrating Kirk's Murder
National Public Radio was very concerned Saturday about angry leftists losing their jobs for gleeful posts about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah, even citing McCarthyism, in “Charlie Kirk critics are being targeted online and losing jobs” by Huo Jingnan, Jude Joffe-Block, and Audrey Nguyen.
NPR Host Lets Big Pritzker Slam Trump's 'Racist Ends' with Nazi Smears
On Wednesday’s Morning Edition (hours before Charlie Kirk’s assassination), co-host Steve Inskeep conducted a puffball interview with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, allowing the Democrat to trash Trump as a horrible racist breaking all the laws.
PBS Doubts Trump Can Be a Good Leader After Charlie Kirk's Murder
The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour expressed serious doubts that President Trump can be the leader the nation needs after the murder of Charlie Kirk. Through a combination of misrepresentations, hypocrisy, and omissions, the assembled trio of anchor Amna Nawaz, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart condemned Trump’s response to the crime.
