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…
PBS Falls Overboard on East Wing Demolition: 'Shocking to Conscience'
On Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg devoted 14 minutes -- over half the show’s 22-minute discussion time -- to the East Wing demolition undertaken by President Trump, using private funding, in order to build a much-needed White House ballroom. After the introduction, where Goldberg complained “President Trump this week took a wrecking ball to the…
Goldberg Claims Trump Proves America Is Still Debating Kingly Power
Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic and PBS host Jeffrey Goldberg joined former NBC and CBS anchor Katie Couric on her Next Question podcast on Thursday to discuss The Atlantic’s ‘“The Unfinished Revolution,’ a project exploring 250 years of the American experiment.” According to Goldberg, the Trump era proves that America never did settle the question of king-like power.
Atlantic Mag's PBS Roundtable: Shutdown Shows 'Cruelty Is the Point'
The Atlantic’s take-over of PBS’s weekly journalist roundtable has formed a closed circle of liberal grievance. After Washington Week with The Atlantic moderator Jeffrey Goldberg cracked jokes about Rep. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) comment about Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought wanting to shut down the government “since puberty,” Goldberg turned to his Atlantic …
On PBS, Steve Hayes Taps Brakes on Lefty Hysteria On Comey Indictment
The impassioned discussion on Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic of course involved the Trump administration’s decision to indict former FBI director James Comey for lying to Congress. Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg set the scene: "The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey represents an important Rubicon crossed. Never in modern history has the president used the tools of…
PBS Sees 'Racially Tinged Hypocrisy' in Trump's D.C. Anti-Crime Blitz
President Trump’s use of emergency powers to federalize the D.C. police and deploy the National Guard to America’s disgracefully crime-ridden capital city was greeted with racially charged animus by the (for the moment) taxpayer-funded pundits on PBS’s Washington Week in Review on Friday evening. Show moderator and Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg brought up what he “a…
STUDY: PBS Washington Week Still Spreading Fear and Loathing of Trump
Washington Week with The Atlantic, public television’s taxpayer-funded weekly political roundtable featuring a rotating stable of journalists, touts itself as "objective.” But a review of the last three months of Washington Week (April 4, 2025 – June 27, 2025) proved Trump-phobic liberalism still reigns over the public airwaves: Republicans were covered negatively 93 percent…
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Before Tapper, Washington Week Host Mocked Warnings from Phillips, Hur
Washington Week with The Atlantic host (and Atlantic editor) Jeffrey Goldberg devoted a full episode of his latest show, normally a political panel, solely to interviewing journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson about their book Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. Tapper also brought up a couple of…
PBS Host: Critics of Pro-Biden Media Don't Grasp 'How Reporting Works'
On Friday's Washington Week with The Atlantic, host Jeffrey Goldberg hosted his pal Jake Tapper and his co-author Alex Thompson on their book Original Sin. The most shameless denial came when Goldberg suggested the media didn't cover up Biden's decline, while he completely omitted his show's infamous episode when he said President Biden was "mentally, quite acute." Mark…
Look Who’s (Not) Talking on PBS's 'Washington Week' -- Conservatives
Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, the host of Washington Week with The Atlantic, tax-funded PBS’s weekly political roundtable show, recently made news himself when he revealed he had been privy to a national security text thread from the Trump White House discussing war plans. Goldberg took full advantage of the Trump team’s misstep, wielding the March 28 episode as…
Column: Jeffrey Goldberg Congratulates Himself All Over PBS
At the Capitol grilling of the PBS and NPR CEOs on March 26, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) asked PBS boss Paula Kerger: “Would you believe that PBS is fair and objective and nonpartisan?” She said “yes.” Jeffrey Goldberg demonstrates what a lie that was by prancing all over PBS against Trump promoting the Signalgate scandal.
