PBS's Washington Week Won't Own Up to Previous Praise of Biden Acuity

December 22nd, 2024 10:29 PM

Washington Week with The Atlantic’s year-in-review episode Friday contained a fleeting reference to a bombshell Wall Street Journal story about how the White House and Democrats actively hid President Joe Biden’s descent into decrepitude, including several public stumbles, shaking hands with the air, and taking the “short stairs” up Air Force One.

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PBS Mocks Trump’s Cabinet Picks: ‘As Low as You Could Possibly Go’

November 25th, 2024 8:09 AM

The journalists around this week’s Washington Week with The Atlantic roundtable had great fun mocking president-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine and the regular moderator of the panel, set the…

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PBS: Trump’s Cabinet a ‘Rogues' Gallery,’ with Russia’s ‘Girlfriend'

November 17th, 2024 10:50 PM

PBS’s weekly political roundtable Washington Week with the Atlantic gathered for the second time since Donald Trump’s reelection reeling from his proposed cabinet picks. New York Times Washington Bureau Chief Elisabeth Bumiller used aggressively antagonistic language to describe the picks. It's a "rogues' gallery," including Tulsi Gabbard, a "girlfriend" of the Russians.

Column: Why Is PBS Allowed to Be Mangle-MAGA TV?

November 12th, 2024 6:01 AM

Nothing underlines the partisan nature of PBS right now than The Atlantic magazine being allowed to take over the long-running Washington Week program in August of 2023. This was not a hostile takeover, but a deeper branding of what PBS is – taxpayer-funded mangle-MAGA TV.

‘Campaign of Lies’; Glasser Takes to PBS to Vent Anti-Trump Bitterness

November 11th, 2024 12:20 PM

On the post-election edition of PBS’s Friday political roundtable, Washington Week with The Atlantic, Susan Glasser of The New Yorker delivered the bitter highlights, covering the same ground as she did in her New Yorker article, “Donald Trump’s Revenge -- The former President will return to the White House older, less inhibited, and far more dangerous than ever…

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Politico’s Daniels Hails ‘Centrists’ Obama, Biden, and Harris on PBS

November 3rd, 2024 2:47 PM

On Friday evening’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on tax-funded PBS, show host and Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg set a “foreboding” scene, just a few days before Election Day. He threw in all the anti-Trump buzzwords,…

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PBS Snob: People Who Call Kamala a Fascist Don't Understand the Word

October 28th, 2024 1:30 PM

In the latest turn in the circle of symbiosis, Amanpour & Co., which airs on PBS, invited PBS’s Washington Week host and Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss his anonymously sourced hit piece, which dropped two weeks before the presidential election, alleging Donald Trump envied…

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Goldberg: Harris Calling Trump a Fascist Is Only 'Allegedly Extreme'

October 26th, 2024 2:00 PM

After days of declaring that Donald Trump admires Adolf Hitler and dismissing evidence that his scoop that Trump cursed in a racist manner at the cost of a military funeral was false, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, took his place in the anchor’s chair of PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic and declared it is only “allegedly extreme” for Kamala Harris to…

PBS Runs Anonymous Atlantic Hit on Hitler-Loving, Mexican-Hating Trump

October 24th, 2024 10:45 PM

Liberal media symbiosis in action: Jeffrey Goldberg. editor-and-chief of The Atlantic and host of the PBS show Washington Week with The Atlantic, appeared as a guest on Wednesday’s PBS News Hour program to discuss his own anonymously sourced Atlantic hit piece, “Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had.'"

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CNN and MSNBC Mostly Ignore Debunking Of Anti-Trump Atlantic Piece

October 24th, 2024 3:22 PM

According to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, former President Donald Trump was dismayed at the cost of the funeral of Army Private Vanessa Guillen, a child of Mexican immigrants who was brutally murdered at Fort Hood in 2020. As Goldberg tells it, Trump raged, “It doesn’t…

Washington Week Whipping! PBS Says Trump Talks Like 'Fascist Neo-Nazi'

September 23rd, 2024 10:59 AM

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…

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Column: Jake Tapper and Jeffrey Goldberg, Good Buddies Who Hate Trump

September 6th, 2024 5:50 AM

News consumers are often unaware of just how friendly the power players in Washington are, and those relationships are often undisclosed. A Netflix show called Somebody Feed Phil underlined that CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg aren't just anti-Trump allies.

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LOL: MSNBC Pans 'False Moral Equivalency' In Trump-Harris Coverage

September 3rd, 2024 10:00 AM

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, live in such thick bubbles that they unironically argued on Tuesday’s Morning Joe that the news media is pretending this election is just like any other election and that they are creating a “false moral equivalency” between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

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NPR Analyst Sees Media Fact-Check Double Standard -- in Trump's Favor!

September 2nd, 2024 4:18 PM

The latest Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS was most notable for NPR senior political editor Domenico Montanaro's ludicrously imbalanced fact-checking of Trump vs. Harris and host Jeffrey Goldberg’s accusations of double standards in media coverage of the campaign -- in favor of Trump!