Oliver Helps Raise $1.5 Million For Public Broadcasting
Back on November 16, HBO’s John Oliver used his Last Week Tonight program to combine two liberal favorites: late night comedy shows and public broadcasting when he announced he was holding an auction to benefit public broadcasting because otherwise “people would die” as a result of it being defunded. The auction closed on Monday night and, according to Variety, brought in a total of…
PBS Takes Sides Over Lebanon: Israel Bombs Leave Kids' Toys in Rubble
PBS’s coverage of the Israel-Gaza war was slanted, none more than the reporting from Lebanon by PBS’s credulous pro-Palestinian war correspondent Leila Molana-Allen. She returned to Lebanon a year after the ceasefire that ended the official war between Israel and the terrorists of Hezbollah to report for PBS News Weekend Saturday, as Israel was targeting Hamas and Hezbollah members,…
PBS 'Washington Week' Rips Trump's 'Unmanaged Anger' at Orders Video
Washington Week with The Atlantic host Jeffrey Goldberg opened Friday’s political roundtable on PBS by setting up a segment on the reckless video issued by Democrats pressuring current military members “to refuse illegal orders” – while leaving the illegal orders supposedly issued by Trump undefined. Goldberg led off by ripping Trump's "unmanaged anger" over the "eminently ignorable"…
PBS Panel Hits Trump 'Misogyny,' Defends ABC's Compromised Mary Bruce
Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS was more feistily anti-Trumpism than usual, with moderator Jeffrey Goldberg leading the panel into various anti-Trump segments, including the president’s fraught relationship with the mainstream press. Goldberg used Trump’s spat with two female reporters in the White House press pool to label Trump, an equal-opportunity insulter, as a…
BYE BABY: PBS Glamorizes 'Underground Network' Pushing Abortion Pills
PBS (and its natural liberal fans) love abortion. Pushing abortion pills after the repeal of Roe v. Wade is heroic in their eyes. On Wednesday's PBS News Hour, reporter Sarah Varney spent almost ten minutes glamorizing an "underground network" of abortion pill distributors in pro-life states. It's "underground" enough that PBS helpfully hid the identities of all their…
Capehart Bristles At Idea That Calling Trump An Authoritarian Is Bad
MS Now host Jonathan Capehart did not appreciate the idea that certain Democratic politicians making a video urging the military to disobey President Trump was a problem. During PBS News Hour’s Friday weekly news recap, Capehart condemned the American Enterprise Institute’s Matthew Continetti for declaring that “both sides” disgraced themselves with the video because, in his mind,…
PBS Gets Bishop to Bash Trump on Immigration, Is Chided on Trans Stand
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour was blessed with a rare sight: A Catholic bishop as guest. But of course PBS didn’t invite him on to talk about the church’s opposition to abortion (there was no dissent at all in Wednesday’s News Hour story on an underground network of…
Oliver Has Auction For Public Media Otherwise 'People Would Die'
HBO’s John Oliver rehashed many of the old and familiar arguments in defense of public broadcasting on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, but because Oliver views himself as a man of action, he announced an auction to help save public media because otherwise “people would die.” Things Oliver put up for sale included, but were not limited to, actor Russell Crowe’s jockstrap, his cabbage wife…
'Firing Line' for Ken Burns Was More Like the Shoe-Polish Line
When PBS hosts a talk show where they interview PBS star Ken Burns, you know it’s going to be like an infomercial for Burns Incorporated. It’s especially appalling when the program has stolen the title Firing Line, which used to be a show hosted by a staunch conservative. Margaret Hoover did not bring anything conservative to challenging this elitist network’s hero. Instead, she set…
Anti-Trump Journos Paint Ken Burns Founder Saga as Resistance Material
PBS omnipresence Ken Burns debuted his six-part, 12-hour series The American Revolution Sunday evening and will air through November 21. Sympathetic journalists were eager to see parallels of the colonists fight for independence and Trump’s opponents rebelling against an authoritarian leader.
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PBS Promotes Military Personnel Questioning Legality of Trump Moves
In its efforts to find every anti-Trump story line it can, the PBS News Hour is touting members of the military who are seeking outside legal advice about whether the missions assigned by the Trump administration are legally justified, starting with the drug-boat bombings.
PBS's Amanpour Declares Public Broadcasting 'An Absolute Must'
As President Trump prepares to sue the BBC for deceptively editing his words on January 6, 2021, to make it appear like he urged violence, PBS’s Christiane Amanpour said on her Friday podcast, The Ex Files, that the idea that the BBC is biased is “probably wrong” and that her own network is “an absolute must” have for the American people.
CANCELLED: 'PBS News Weekend' to End After Republicans Rescind Funding
PBS superstation WETA and its subsidiary News Hour Productions are ending broadcasts of PBS News Weekend in early January. The "public" broadcasting news site Current reported it's "part of a restructuring prompted by the rescission of federal funding for public media."
