Public Broadcasting
PBS Pounces on Trump ‘Conspiracies' Arlington, Gives Dems Pass on Lies
As the election looms and the media burrows deeper into the bag for the Democratic presidential ticket, the online headlines at PBS News Hour are getting sharper and more partisan, like this one to accompany a Wednesday evening segment by the show’s most partisan reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez: “Harris kicks off Georgia tour as Trump posts grievances on social media.” The contrast was…
PBS Panel Hails DNC ‘Centrist Republican Energy,’ Phony Dem ‘Freedom'
The panelists on the post-Democratic convention edition of PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic’s Friday night political roundtable offered an assortment of bias, lauding the Harris campaign the night after her acceptance speech, while also praising Michelle Obama as “the most admired woman on Earth” and maybe the whole solar system and spouting about the Democratic embrace of “…
PBS Confesses: Dems Say, We Say ‘Reproductive Rights,’ Not ‘Abortion'
One piece of PBS’s coverage of the last night of the Democratic National Convention unwittingly confirmed media labeling bias on PBS and other “mainstream “outlets. First, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart hailed the Democrat’s vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz for using the supposedly less frightening and more convincing term “gun safety legislation” instead of “gun…
Silly PBS: Harris Makes Dems ‘Feel Seen,’ ‘Trump Derangement’ Not Real
PBS opened its fourth and final night of coverage from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago with reporting from the PBS News Hour, with congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins, reporting from D.C. a segment on the Republican’s “counterprogramming” of the convention. She proceeded to defensively explain Trump rhetoric to her viewers as if they were toddlers. Once the actual…
PBS’s Capehart on Horror of USA Chants at GOP Rallies: ‘Felt Menacing'
Reporter Laura Barron-Lopez set the scene for Night Three of the Democratic National Convention on the preceding episode of the PBS News Hour Wednesday evening, looking back with joy at Barack and Michelle Obama’s speeches from Night Two.
News Hour co-anchor Amna Nawaz opened PBS’s Night Three convention coverage by also finding “a message of hope” in Barack Obama’s…
PBS Goes Full Feminist: US on the ‘Cusp' of a Female President (Again)
On Night 2 of the Democratic Convention, anchor Amna Nawaz was talking to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the PBS booth when they were joined by veteran PBS journalist Judy Woodruff. Nawaz took advantage by tossing aside her journalist hat and hosting a heartfelt feminist kaffeeklatsch hailing VP Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, as a feminist hero on “the…
PBS Harkens to 'Joyful Warrior' Harris Rekindling Excitement of Obama
The “excitement” began right from the introduction of PBS’s coverage of Night Two of the Democratic National Convention from Chicago, which featured consecutive speeches by Michelle and Barack Obama. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett set up this T-ball of a question: “And former president Barack Obama speaks to the city that helped launch his political career.” Next, in a staged soundbite, someone off-…
PBS’s Woodruff Apologizes for Forwarding Bad Reporting on Trump Call
During Night One of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, veteran reporter Judy Woodruff falsely reported on a Donald Trump phone call to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that never happened, a call that would have made Trump appear to influence Israel’s war policy in order to help himself win election. Discussing how lame-duck President Joe Biden could still help VP Kamala…
SHOOT? NPR Airs Kinzinger Comparing Trump to Enemy in Trench Warfare
Leftist media outlets like National Public Radio may not have forgotten entirely about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but it doesn’t enter their brains when “Republicans for Harris” compare Trump to an enemy in mortal combat. In this case, it’s Pelosi-Picked Panelist Adam Kinzinger.
PBS Claim of GOP ‘Demonizing’ Dem Women Popped by Brooks in Two Words
Although he appears as the ostensible voice from the right on the PBS News Hour’s Friday evening political discussion, New York Times columnist David Brooks is no one’s idea of a hard-core conservative. He said “I love Joe Biden” before criticizing Biden’s angry speech on Night One of the Democratic National Convention, after previously stating “I do think Donald Trump is…
PBS’s Barron-Lopez Eats Up ‘Kamala Cake’ and DNC ‘Palpable Excitement’
While covering Night One of the Democratic convention from Chicago, PBS News Hour reporter Laura Barron-Lopez was as energized as a Democratic delegate (or PBS’s introductory voiceover to its coverage), gushing over a “Kamala Cake” featured by a local bakery and relaying the “palpable enthusiasm” from the convention floor. Barron-Lopez, who usually covers the White House, was quite…
PBS Launched DNC Coverage: 'Enthusiasm... Joy, Excitement' in Chicago'
PBS News Hour anchors Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz on Sunday night in Chicago, where they were preparing for the start of the Democratic National Convention on Monday by gushing over new Democratic “enthusiasm.” Next, journalist Judy Woodruff’s history of the notorious Democratic National Convention of 1968, where she made an extraneous “convicted felon” reference, and made…
Brooks Surprised 'Responsible' Harris Backs Soviet-Like Price Controls
New York Times columnist and PBS News Hour theoretical conservative David Brooks was shocked on Friday’s show that “a responsible Democratic candidate” would endorse Soviet-like price controls on food.
PBS Promotes Leftist ABA Effort to 'Defend Democracy' Against Trump
The PBS News Hour promoted more liberal election fear-mongering, this time from the ostensibly objective but actually leftist American Bar Association. Anchor Amna Nawaz was eager to push its fear against the threat of authoritarianism in America under a second Trump term as a bipartisan concern by pairing former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson with retired "conservative" judge…
