Thursday’s PBS News Hour segment on “extreme weather events” turned out even more bluntly unscientific than the channel’s usual apocalyptic environmental “Tipping Point” fare, with reporter Ali Rogin’s “climate change” screed equating temporary weather patterns with dangerous climate change -- at least when the show and its climate guest cherry-pick the hottest spots on the map.
Never mind the…
As America’s semiquincentennial rolls around, is the Trump Administration whitewashing the evils of America’s history? The PBS News Hour thinks so. On Monday’s edition of the “Politics Monday” segment with pollster Amy Cook and NPR’s Tamara Keith, co-host Geoff Bennett asked his guests about the White House installing a statute of Christopher Columbus on the grounds.
Monday’s edition of Amanpour & Co. on PBS showcased eponymous host Christiane Amanpour assenting to the radical view of her guest, Yale University professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: "Also ahead, “White Supremacy in Donald Trump's White House.”
Princeton Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor speaks to Michel Martin about Trump's war on DEI." The above shows the host quoting a featured article by…
Friday’s PBS News Hour featured a taped interview between co-anchor Amna Nawaz and New York City’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani. Would there be hard-hitting questions about Mamdani’s previous silence on anti-Semitism? His pro-Hamas, October 7 rape-denying wife? His ominous promise to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism”? No chance.
Instead, the interview…
PBS News Hour’s “Art in Action” is an occasional series dedicated to “exploring the intersection of art and democracy” as part of the paper’s larger arts coverage under the rubric Canvas. It’s aired some three dozen segments since the first one in August 2024 late in the Biden Administration, and pivoted to an anti-Trump ideological stance after Trump’s election. A convenient vehicle to sneak in…
Monday’s PBS News Hour fell into the footsteps of its fellow public media outlet NPR, raising alarm over purported “hateful rhetoric” by the Republican Party against Muslims. The online title: “Anti-Islamic rhetoric from GOP politicians sparks concerns over religious hatred.”
The opening graphic behind co-anchor Geoff Bennett read “Islamophobia in America.” Yes, after weeks of…
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour offered some rare media coverage of one of President Trump’s legislative priorities, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, his popular voter ID bill based on the idea that ineligible ballots from non-citizens should not dilute the votes of American citizens, while holding every state to the same voter verification standards.
The act, which has passed the…
The Trump-hostile, intervention-hating Christiane Amanpour, host of the PBS (and CNN International) show Amanpour & Co., devoted the first 20 minutes of Wednesday’s show to interviewing ranting liberal Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) about President Trump’s frightening incompetence and lack of planning before Israel and U.S. fighters took out Iran’s dictatorial leadership.
As the U.S. and Israel war against Iran enters Day 4, the PBS News Hour continues to rely on coverage sympathetic to the murderous regime pro-regime from “special correspondent” Reza Sayah: "….just another intense, unnerving, frightening day of airstrikes here in the capital, Tehran. And it just continues to be an astonishing scene, seeing these jet fighters, hearing them zoom ahead and then…
The surprise attack on Iran’s leadership by the United States and Israel on February 28 was greeted on PBS by skepticism of President Trump’s long-term plans, while avoiding the vital historical context of Iran’s authoritarian Islamist regime.
Worse was the pro-regime coverage of the joint mission from special correspondent Reza Sayah in Tehran during the last minutes of PBS’s special “War…