Public Broadcasting

MSNBC Fawns Over ‘Powerful,’ ‘Positive’ Biden Speech at the U.N.
President Biden made his 2023 address Tuesday morning to the United Nations General Assembly and, as predicted, the liberal media were there to swoon over it like North Korean propagandists. MSNBC played that role, touting it as a “comprehensive” set of remarks with “powerful” and “positive” messaging that showed concern for climate change and Ukraine.

PBS Plays Judge and Jury for Biden: ‘We Have Established…No Evidence’
On the latest edition of PBS’s weekly political journalist roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, guest host Laura Barron-Lopez (a familiar face here at NewsBusters) set the tone right from the show’s introduction, of desperate Republicans hurling unsubstantiated accusations against the wall: "House Republicans in disarray.... Speaker Kevin McCarthy opens an impeachment inquiry…

PBS Hypes ‘Popular Authoritarian Movement Within the Republican Party'
On Thursday’s taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour, notoriously liberal correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez interviewed two Harvard professors about their new anti-Republican tome: "Can you first establish when you, as someone who is an expert in the collapse of democracies, diagnosed that there is now a popular authoritarian movement within the Republican Party?"

PBS Hosts Rip Elon Musk: Racist, Sexist, 'Potentially Dangerous Man'
Two shows that air on tax-funded PBS, the NewsHour and Amanpour & Co., invited journalist and Amanpour regular Walter Isaacson to discuss his new biography of entrepreneur Elon Musk who now owns X (formerly Twitter). The results were less cozy than the usual journalist-to-journalist validation, with the reliably liberal Isaacson getting testy over some of the questions…

PBS Warns GOP 'Cheapening' Impeachment Without a 'Holy Cow' Moment
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined PBS NewsHour host Geoff Bennett on Friday for their regularly scheduled recap of the week’s top stories. The trio warned that because Republicans have “no evidence” or “holy cow” moment, they are “cheapening the whole impeachment process.”

Paul Krugman in La-La Land: ‘Economic Data Have Been Surreally Good’
When it was revealed Sept. 12 that the U.S. poverty rate spiked in 2022 for the first time in 13 years, President Joe Biden’s mouthpiece at The New York Times had some egg on his face.

State-Run PBS Rolls Over to Biden Aide Demanding More Pro-Biden Bias
Biden aide Ian Sams put out a memo demanding the "independent media" must "ramp up the scrutiny" of House Republicans. PBS NewsHour promptly put Sams on taxpayer-funded TV to rip the Republicans for having "no evidence."

PBS on Biden Impeachment News:'Far-Right' GOP's Unsubstantiated Claims
Tuesday's PBS NewsHour ran two segments on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy opening an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, extending the ongoing investigations by congressional Republicans into the president’s possible involvement in his son’s business dealings. The supposedly objective tax-supported outlet showered McCarthy with “far-right” labels. A favored phrase of the…

PBS Silliness: Biden's Catholicism 'Central to How He Views the World'
The Tuesday edition of the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour featured liberal political writer Franklin Foer talking about his new biography of President Biden. But don’t expect Foer’s book, The Last President, to be a harsh expose like the dozens of books written about former President Trump. Foer just told NBC’s Meet the Press anchor Chuck Todd that Biden "has been…

PBS Roundtable Can't Believe 'Extraordinary' Biden Achievement Ignored
For the second week in a row, PBS’s weekly journalistic political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic defended the elderly President Biden’s “mental acuity,” with the author of a new Biden biography, who also lectured the press on how to properly cover the president: By emphasizing how bad Trump is. Foer gave away his partisan leanings with a choice of pronoun: "...the recent…

Why Does NPR Hate Democracy? Can't Stand 'Book Ban' of Ibram X. Kendi
On Friday's Morning Edition, NPR lamented the "surge" in book bans across America. Apparently, democracy works best in America when educators get to assign left-wing propaganda about how America is deeply racist, and no one objects. "One parent" caused a "book ban" in North Carolina -- a book by radical leftist Ibram X. Kendi.

PBS Roundtable's Laugh Line on Biden: ‘Mentally, He’s Quite Acute’
The awkwardly named Washington Week with The Atlantic, a weekly political roundtable of journalists which appears on tax-supported PBS, defended President Biden from scurrilous Republican questions about his age and fitness in last Friday’s edition. While the panel did address the important matter of the gerontocracy currently running the country, several of the panelists seemed to…

PBS Weeps Over Denying ‘Gender-affirming Care’ for TX Transgender Kids
Friday’s edition of the tax-supported PBS NewsHour reacted with alarm about news that what the left calls “gender-affirming medical care” for children (i.e., puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and irrevocable surgeries) has been outlawed in Texas. Reporter Laura Barron-Lopez: "...it's important to note that all of the major American medical associations say that this is -- gender-…

PBS: GOP Has ‘Turned Up Volume on Violence’ Against Trans People
The Thursday edition of the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour featured host Geoff Bennett cynically using two recent murders, one of a gay dancer and another a LGBT bookstore owning ally, to bash Republicans as the perpetrators. Bennett spoke to the spokesman of the…