Before Wednesday’s congressional testimony from the heads of PBS and NPR before the House Subcommittee on Delivering Government Efficiency (DOGE), PBS’s flagship news show the News Hour offered up some gaslighting on Tuesday evening in defense of the program’s political objectivity and balance -- a laughable proposition to anyone who has watched an episode.
Co-anchor Geoff Bennett:…
Before journalist Jeffrey Goldberg’s revelation that he’d been the unwitting witness to a private text thread discussing sensitive national security plans by the Trump White House, the Atlantic’s editor in chief hosted another busy episode of public television’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, where Washington Post columnist David Ignatius and Atlantic writer Michael helped him hype the “…
Bias by omission on the PBS weekly news roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, as the journalists played dumb about why Trump would cancel federal grant money from Columbia University, describing it as a typical Trumpian power grab. Whatever could have been happening there recently to validate such a move? (Besides months of anti-Semitic campouts last year and the harassment of Jewish…
Monday’s PBS News Hour featured former CNN reporter Maria Ressa, who was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression,” but her tough experiences as a journalist in the Phillipines taught her the wrong lessons -- that freedom of speech on social media is responsible for the rise in authoritarianism around the world, using the left-wing excuse of…
Christiane Amanpour, is an international affairs correspondent but for Friday’s edition of Amanpour, which airs on PBS, she interviewed playwright Joe Murphy (and Handmaid’s Tale) actor Stephen Kunken in Soho Place theatre in London where the play Kyoto, cowritten by Murphy, is being performed.
Amanpour who surely considers herself intellectual, taking the same unoriginal, tired line on the Hulu…
On Wednesday’s PBS News Hour, co-host Amna Nawaz tried emotional blackmail to stop spending cuts – any kind of spending cut – in an interview with Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) chairman of the House Budget Committee.
After challenging Arrington on Medicaid spending in the just-passed House GOP budget framework (“….Is it possible for you to guarantee that none of the 70 million people who rely on…
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour featured guest Brian Stelter, editor of CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter (and reliable white knight for the mainstream media) to discuss the “chilling effect” of the Trump Administration blocking the Associated Press from the White House pool of reporters.
After warning of "a chilling moment when it comes to First Amendment freedoms,"…
PBS News Hour reporter Laura Barron Lopez on Monday spoke with the recently resigned IRS commissioner Daniel Werfel, the tax-funded news network’s latest defense against DOGE’s cuts in federal spending, crammed with awful-sounding hypothetical roadblocks, with an old-fashioned soak-the-rich twist.
PBS was too busy defending the Internal Revenue Service to raise awkward questions about…
While PBS News anchors and reporters bring the soft soap for sob story interviews for people losing their jobs thanks to Trump executive orders and Musk-driven budget cuts without any ideological labels attached (transgender Navy Pilot Emily Shilling), the rare conservative who appears is almost guaranteed to get smacked with at least on warning label (former Trump official Chad Wolf).
It was a…
PBS News Hour reporter William Brangham dumped a truckload of slime over space entrepreneur and Trump advisor Elon Musk’s head in a 10-minute news piece/hit piece that aired Thursday evening. Reporter William Brangham: Brangham: "Musk changed the platform's policies on hate speech, and when analysts claimed that vitriol then flourished on the renamed X, advertisers balked and…
