Amanpour & Co., which airs on PBS and CNN International, picked up on "Five Bullets," a new book by Elliot Williams about Bernard Goetz, the so-called subway vigilante who shot four black teenagers on the NYC subway in 1984 because he thought he was being mugged. The book has surprisingly become a handy hook for the elitist media (whose denizens probably doesn’t ride the…
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour featured an interview by co-anchor Geoff Bennett of Howard Bryant, former ESPN The Magazine “Truth” columnist and perpetual racial grievance machine, lionizing the famous black actor and Stalinist Paul Robeson.
Bennett talked to Bryant about his new book, "Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America.”
Co-anchor Geoff Bennett: "At the beginning of the…
Monday’s Amanpour & Co. on PBS (and CNN International) invited former Columbia University president Lee Bollinger to criticize the Trump Administration for squelching free speech (a common theme of late on previously federally funded media lately).
Bollinger burst out of the gate snarling “McCarthyism": BOLLINGER: "....you really have to go back to the McCarthy period, which…
Intentionally or not, the PBS News Hour exhibited a liberal double standard in descriptions in a story by Liz Landers from Minneapolis, where residents are apparently being persecuted under ICE. A Thursday segment underlined that anti-ICE protester Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, but an earlier murder of another federal law officer in Washington, D.C. was downgraded to a…
Intentionally or not, the PBS News Hour exhibited a liberal double standard in descriptions in a story by Liz Landers from Minneapolis, where residents are apparently being persecuted under ICE. A Thursday segment underlined that anti-ICE protester Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, but an earlier killing of another federal law officer in Washington, D.C. was downgraded to a…
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour identified guest Ilya Shapiro as a “conservative legal scholar,” a rare type of guest (most show guests are liberals are don’t get an ideological label). Also rare on the network that purports to a deeper more nuanced look at issues – the substantive discussion that took place between he and co-anchor Geoff Bennett.
That substantiveness was due almost entirely…
Minnesota-based special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro was the point man for PBS News Hour’s coverage on the ongoing confrontations in far-left Minneapolis between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and mobs of activists obstructing their legal duties.
Monday evening’s News Hour devoted a piddling 15 seconds to a despicable mob protest during Sunday services at a…
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour covered the Supreme Court taking up two cases involving the rights of biological males to compete alongside females in high school and college athletics. The News Hour performed its usual pro-LGTBQ+ propaganda, even with its previously most active ideological stuntwoman on the issue, Laura Barron Lopez, now ensconced at left-wing MS Now…
The PBS News Weekend show is winding down due to PBS's loss of federal funding, with its final episode appearing Sunday, January 11. Check out the tough but fair journalism viewers will be missing: "....demonstrators in hundreds of cities and towns took to the streets in a mass protest dubbed the ICE out for Good Weekend of Action. Some protesters say ICE is overstepping its legal power and…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good in her SUV during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday, after giving her an order to get out of the car which she failed to obey, instead trying to leave the scene in her car, resulting in the fatal shooting.
PBS leaned heavily on a selection of facts and assumptions to skew…