Public Broadcasting

So just what was then-president Trump thinking when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in early January 2021, and asked him to “find 11,780 votes” in Georgia, which if really there, would have put Trump over Biden in the close Georgia race? NewsHour congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins seemed confident she knew just what Trump was thinking in her Tuesday evening…

Overreact much? The PBS News Weekend show set off klaxon alarms Sunday evening about the pseudo-constitutional concept of "separation of church and state," based on the establishment of an online Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, the first publicly funded religious charter school in the nation. Host John Yang introduced his segment under a graphic that read “Church and State.”

On Tuesday’s PBS NewsHour, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez acted as mouthpiece for the Biden administration to trumpet the so-called success of Bidenomics, tied to the president’s recent campaign trek to Milwaukee marking the anniversary of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. For this partially taxpayer-funded report, Barron-Lopez cited the Democratic vice-president…

The Thursday evening PBS NewsHour showcased the latest attack on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with a two-pronged attack, hosting Joel Anderson of the Slate podcast "Slow Burn" and Brett Murphy from ProPublica to talk about that outlet’s latest glossy attack on the conservative Supreme Court justice. Using ProPublica’s obsessive scoops as ammunition, PBS has…

On Saturday night's horribly named show All Things Considered, Boston-based NPR reporter Tovia Smith filed a 12-and-a-half minute story warning "The battle over books comes at a cost." Librarians have been smeared as evil people and their lives have been put in danger by nasty right-wingers. In this whole story, NPR successfully avoided mentioning the content of any sexually explicit…

PBS’s weekly political roundtable show Washington Week has a new “editorial partner” and a new name but the same liberal philosophy. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic monthly, is now moderator of the awkwardly rebranded Washington Week with The Atlantic. Under Goldberg’s tenure, The Atlantic has turned into a Democratic hive, and he’…

Reacting to the news that David Weiss has been appointed special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart lamented to Friday’s PBS NewsHour that Fox News has feed its viewers a “anti-Biden family diet” over the past few years.

National Public Radio’s pop-culture show “It’s Been a Minute” bravely tackled the made-up problem of racist country music, in the wake of the failed censorship of singer Jason Aldrean’s hit “Try That in a Small Town.” Tax-funded NPR blurbed the August 1 radio segment under this heading: “How racism became a marketing tool for country music.”

Another Biden family payment scandal meant another goose egg of coverage on public television’s flagship evening news program the PBS NewsHour. On Wednesday, House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer released records detailing payments Biden family members have received from oligarchs in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. The revelations were predictably ignored by the “big three”…

NPR media reporter David Folkenflik filed yet another of his anti-Fox News Channel pieces for Wednesday's Morning Edition. The headline? "A former Fox executive now argues Murdoch is unfit to own TV stations.": This means Folkfenlik has filed 44 anti-Fox News stories so far in 2023.

For the latest installment of their documentary series, The Human Footprint, PBS took a look at the history of cotton from both a political and scientific perspective. On the former, host and evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton warned that there attempts to “reinstitute many of the barriers that long kept African-Americans from wielding political power.”

Terry Gross, host of the National Public Radio talk show Fresh Air, conducted two separate interviews on succeeding days with Annie Karni, a former White House correspondent for the New York Times who is now congressional correspondent for the paper, a discussion dominated by fears of the “far-right” Congress. The loaded ideological labeling that emanated from both…

After three and a half years, there’s still no immunity from COVID hysteria at the New York Times or PBS NewsHour. A slight, predictable summer uptick in COVID cases (up from very low levels) caused a mini-frenzy in the liberal media, which were always eager to enjoin citizens to “mask up” and get their umpteenth booster shot while shunning other people. Both outlets relied on…

Two publicly funded media outlets, National Public Radio and the PBS NewsHour, sponsored a Marist poll to find out how Republicans feel about an issue the press has decided is urgent -- “climate change.” To their horror, it found Republicans would rather preserve living standards for humans rather than throw their money at somehow stopping the temperature from rising. NPR’s…