Public Broadcasting

National Public Radio still has an ombudsman, a "Public Editor," to respond to public complaints. That's appropriate, since the public pays for NPR. Often the liberals who dominate the NPR audience complain when they feel NPR is insufficiently "progressive." So it was a little shocking when Public Editor Kelly McBride admitted on October 4 that they botched an online story attacking…

Amanpour & Co. helpfully tried to explain the bizarre stubbornness of Hispanics who risk not voting correctly in the upcoming presidential election – by hosting author-activist Paola Ramos, who worked both in the Obama administration and as Deputy Director of Hispanic Media for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. An objective and balanced source for information on…

PBS’s vice presidential debate favoritism began beforehand, in a political roundtable on Tuesday evening’s PBS News Hour in which White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez rolled out a list of Harris-Walz talking points. Predictably, Barron-Lopez embraced pro-Democratic “fact-checking” by CBS and defended the partisan "fact-checking" at last month’s ABC presidential debate.

The subject line of the PBS email read: “How a trans youth care ban affects this family.” Inside was an essay based on a PBS News Hour segment on the travails of a transgender teen from Texas, after a new state law forbid “gender-affirming” medication that will somehow transform teenager girl Rhyan into a boy. The plight of “transgender” teenagers in Texas are the new specialty…

Washington Week with The Atlantic, PBS’s weekly political roundtable featuring outside journalists, was particularly harsh on candidate Donald Trump and running mate J.D. Vance this week, perhaps prodded by guest host Laura Barron-Lopez, the most liberally biased reporter on the PBS News Hour. Barron-Lopez asked The Atlantic’s Adam Harris about the candidates’…

PBS News Hour anchor Amna Nawaz conducted an embarrassing gushfest with Hillary Clinton on Thursday night, nodding along as Hillary claimed "one choice literally could end our democracy. And I don't say that in any way of satisfaction, and I don't even think I'm exaggerating."

Washington Post associate editor and PBS News Hour talking head Jonathan Capehart was triggered on Friday when the American Enterprise Institute’s Danielle Pletka argued that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s record on Russia isn’t the greatest. While he found Pletka’s arguments to be “incredibly insulting,” he never actually debunked them.

Wednesday’s PBS News Hour provided the latest piece of transgender propaganda to air on supposedly objective and balanced public television, brought by reporter Laura Barron-Lopez, the show’s most biased reporter. With apparently nothing going on at the White House these days (Joe Biden, where are you?), the show’s White House correspondent has more time to spend on her obsession with…

Tax-funded PBS issued its latest quadrennial documentary on the two major candidates running for president: “The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump.”  Producer Michael Kirk told Forbes magazine he and his team worked "to balance out the screen time for each of their subjects.” Kirk also told Forbes it was "really hard" to fight the impulse to put his "thumb on the scale in some…

CBS’s Stephen Colbert and his wife, Evie, joined PBS News Hour on Monday to promote their new cookbook and discuss his approach to The Late Show. Colbert told Amna Nawaz that he will not welcome “disingenuous” politicians to his show, but not only is that not true, “disingenuous” might as well be Colbert’s way of saying “Republicans.”

PBS omnipresence Ken Burns feels so secure in his public-broadcasting empire that he can put his name on fundraising emails for Harris-Walz with no fear anyone will stop paying for and airing his documentaries on PBS. The House held hearings in 1999 over Boston PBS superstation WGBH exchanging email lists with the Democratic Party. This goes even further. Will Congress ask questions about this…

Taxpayer-supported PBS again failed its own congressionally mandated test to “provide objectivity and balance” when covering issues. PBS News Weekend this Sunday featured a spokesman for a liberal scientific advocacy organization as its only guest to feed liberal fear-mongering about Project 2025. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is an activist group that does not “stick to…

NPR media reporter David Folkenflik appeared on Weekend Edition Saturday to discuss how “even after being debunked, fringe ideas and lies can still become major campaign themes.” That meant it was a Trump segment, and Folkenflik suggested Trump's complaints about Jewish voters suggest something "Jews have experienced over the decades and centuries, certain kinds of targeting and…

The latest Washington Week with The Atlantic, the journalistic political roundtable airing every Friday evening on tax-funded PBS, featured Atlantic magazine journalist Caitlin Dickerson accusing Donald Trump of not just racism, but using the rhetoric of “fascist neo-Nazi groups,” for his insistence on enforcing the borders and lowering immigration levels from certain world…