Public Broadcasting

PBS Host, Journalism Dean Agree Black Cops Inspired by White Supremacy
Wednesday’s Amanpour & Co. opened with a long interview with Jelani Cobb, dean of Columbia University's Journalism School and a New Yorker staff writer. Cobb, who leads a school for future journalists, forwarded the wild argument that the five black police officers who killed Tyre Nichols could have been motivated by self-hatred, having internalizing “white supremacy.”…

FLASHBACK: Media Slobbering Over Obama’s SOTU Speeches
Joe Biden can never hope to garner the gushing praise the media habitually lavished on his onetime boss, former President Barack Obama. Liberal reporters were always thrilled whenever they were privileged to hear their hero delivering predictable liberal platitudes from the well of the House of Representatives.

On PBS, Capehart Implies His Mother Picked Cotton...In New Jersey?
In his latest denunciation of Gov. Ron DeSantis objecting to leftist propaganda in education, Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart claiming he was in the first generation of his family "to not have to pick cotton." Capehart grew up with his mother in New Jersey (his father died early in his life). Where do they pick cotton in New Jersey?

On PBS, Amanpour In Sync With Radical Palestinian on 'Fascist' Israel
Tuesday’s Amanpour & Co. on PBS featured Diana Buttu, described by the program as a “political analyst and human rights lawyer,” but whose actual views were extremely hostile to Israel and radically pro-Palestinian -- and in sync with those of host Christiane Amanpour. Amanpour matched her guest by bringing her own long-standing hostility to Israel and concurrent embrace of the…

On PBS, Amanpour and ‘V’ Curse ‘The Patriarchy,’ See Hope in Abortion
Ah, the joys of public broadcasting: Watching two lefty friends chatting about the patriarchy. Christiane Amanpour and the former Eve Ensler, the playwright and activist of Vagina Monologues infamy, who now goes by the letter “V,” took turns cursing “the patriarchy” while seeing hope for “human rights” in the 2022 midterms. Amanpour continued her praise for one of the COVID era’s most…

PBS Lobbies for Blood Donation by Gay Men as an 'Equal Rights' Issue
On Friday's PBS NewsHour, the show promoted another liberal pet cause as a segment was devoted to the efforts of gay activists who are demanding to have their blood accepted for blood transfusions.

PBS NewsHour Special Pushes Liberal Line on Guns, American Racism
As PBS NewsHour special on survivors of gun-related violence squeezed in a liberal agenda. Interviewees claimed the media thinks mass shootings involving whites are a national issue, but when it's blacks, nobody cares: "The media often neglects to illuminate black suffering in similar ways and to provide attention that's given to it almost as if you deserve to be shot, right?"

PBS: Black Memphis Cops Showed ‘Anti-Black Racism’ in Deadly Beating
Wesley Lowery, a former Washington Post reporter who covers police issues and race, appeared on PBS’s news roundup Washington Week Friday to talk about the brutal killing of Tyre Nichols at the hands of police after a traffic stop in Memphis, and both he and the emotional show host Yamiche Alcindor insisted anti-black racism was so widespread in America that it…

PBS Promotes Anti-'Gun Access' Leftist Lamenting U.S. 'Gun Culture'
On Wednesday evening, PBS NewsHour continued its push for more gun restrictions as reporter John Yang spoke with gun control activist Gloria Pan of the group Moms Rising.

On PBS, Amanpour Slams 'Strange' DeSantis Overturning LGBTQ 'Norms'
Public broadcasting has once again smeared potential Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, this time as a dangerous spreader of anti-LGBTQ intolerance, on Thursday evening’s Amanpour & Co. show on PBS. Host Christiane Amanpour conducted an 18-minute interview with author Andrew Solomon on the supposed backlash against LGBTQ rights in the United States, with…

NPR Enables Jeffries: We Won't Pay 'Ransom Note' to GOP 'Extremists'
NPR sounded like National Democrat Radio again on Friday as Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep interviewed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. It was extremely reminiscent of Inskeep's regular puffball interviews with President Obama, as Jeffries is clearly trying to project that same fake-moderation, and Inskeep is trying to help.The NPR headline is the DNC headline: "Hakeem…

PBS Frets Second Amendment Prevents More Gun Control in California
On Monday evening, PBS NewsHour co-anchors Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz delivered taxpayer-funded anti-gun activism as the two hosted back-to-back segments that pushed for more gun restrictions.

On PBS, Historian Jon Meacham Compares Liz Cheney, Bush Sr. to Lincoln
Firing Line host Margaret Hoover talked to liberal historian, presidential biographer, and current Biden speechwriter Jon Meacham, who made some bizarre modern-day comparisons to President Abraham Lincoln and denied he was a Democrat, in the latest edition of the relaunched public affairs show on PBS. Meacham predictably cited Lincoln, the subject of his latest biography, and found…

Column: NPR Drops Bombs on the 'Hard Right Republicans In Congress'
My maxim on the media’s use of ideological labeling is “The epic political battles of our time are between the ultraconservatives and the nonpartisans.” Journalists see Republicans as a whole as ultraconservative, or as a wholly owned subsidiary of the ultraconservatives. Exhibit A is NPR's program Fresh Air with Terry Gross, which isn't fresh at all.