Friday’s edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic played defense for the Democratic Party in California over the raging wildfires that have destroyed tens of thousands of acres and thousands of houses, taking the time to chiding Trump and call Republicans liars for daring to point out the obvious failures of human response.
Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg was joined at the roundtable by Laura…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s startling announcement that his company’s Facebook and Instagram sites would drop its censorious fact-checking process scared the press and “misinformation” obsessed academics who would no longer be able to use pseudo-scientific concepts like “misinformation” to silence conservative debate on issues like COVID, radical Islam, Black Lives Matter, and “climate change.”…
Monday’s PBS News Hour featured an interview on the current meltdown at the Washington Post with blunt-talking liberal journalist Kara Swisher, the class-conscious nemesis of Elon Musk and now of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of the Post. In Swisher’s eyes, he used to be one of the good billionaires. At least until he belatedly realized his paper was laughably slanted and is now making…
PBS News Weekend blamed Fox News and “far right” websites for the Capitol Hill riot (or as both PBS and their NPR guests insisted, “insurrection”) on a news segment Sunday evening, the eve of the fourth anniversary of that terrible day in the nation’s capital, January 6, 2021. Host William Brangham: ….A mob of then-President Trump supporters smashed their way into the Capitol, falsely believing…
Both the PBS News Hour and PBS’s weekly journalist roundtable Washington Week in Review used the new 199th Congress and Rep. Mike Johnson narrowly winning the vote to become Speaker of the House to get up to its old biased labeling tricks. Washington Week moderator and Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg (along with contributors Leigh Ann Caldwell and David Ignatius of …
The hagiography of President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at age 100, continued Monday evening on the tax-funded PBS News Hour. The online headline summarized: “A look at Carter’s accomplishments as president and his legacy as a human rights champion.” President Ronald Reagan certainly didn’t get that treatment for ending the Cold War by pushing the Soviets into the dustbin of history.
Guest…
The Monday edition of the PBS News Hour gave an early Christmas gift to the outgoing Biden administration by openly embracing Biden’s controversial commutation of the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners to life in prison, responsible in whole or part of over 49 murders, by NewsBusters count of the 37 commutations.
Such a controversy should merit at least a debate between opposing views…
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.
The supposedly vigilant…
On Friday’s PBS airing of Amanpour & Co., host Christiane Amanpour introduced “the Nobel prize winning economist, Paul Krugman, who's written his last column for The New York Times, after 25 years of sharp and often indispensable takes on major issues that shape America and the world.”
Stop laughing, please.
NewsBusters has compiled decades of research proving Krugman’s knee-jerk…
Baron about Trump’s “massive chilling effect” on the press on Wednesday, and added another metaphor to describe the media supposedly bowing down to Trump’s threats (since when!): Amanpour: "...we're seeing quite a lot of media and like the tech streaming titans and all the rest of it making, you know, sort of a kiss-the-ring progression to Mar-a-Lago."
Christiane Amanpour: ….in the United…
