Anchor Amna Nawaz hosted on Thursday’s PBS News Hour as her expert Steven Erlanger, chief diplomatic correspondent and former Jerusalem bureau chief and fiercely pro-Palestinian voice for years at the paper. They spoke about Israel killing young Islamic Jihad leader Mohammed Jaber in a West Bank action.
Amna Nawaz: ….So these Israeli forces had been trying to kill Mohammed Jaber for a very long…
As the election looms and the media burrows deeper into the bag for the Democratic presidential ticket, the online headlines at PBS News Hour are getting sharper and more partisan, like this one to accompany a Wednesday evening segment by the show’s most partisan reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez: “Harris kicks off Georgia tour as Trump posts grievances on social media.”
The contrast was sharp from…
The panelists on the post-Democratic convention edition of PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic’s Friday night political roundtable offered an assortment of bias, lauding the Harris campaign the night after her acceptance speech, while also praising Michelle Obama as “the most admired woman on Earth” and maybe the whole solar system and spouting about the Democratic embrace of “freedom.”
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One piece of PBS’s coverage of the Democratic National Convention unwittingly confirmed media labeling bias on PBS and other outlets. Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart hailed the Democrat’s vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz for using the supposedly less frightening and more convincing term “gun safety legislation” instead of “gun violence laws” (which the PBS News Hour has also…
PBS opened its fourth and final night of coverage from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago with reporting from the PBS News Hour, with congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins, reporting from D.C. a segment on the Republican’s “counterprogramming” of the convention. She proceeded to defensively explain Trump rhetoric to her viewers as if they were toddlers.
Once the actual Night Four…
Reporter Laura Barron-Lopez set the scene for Night Three of the Democratic National Convention on the preceding episode of the PBS News Hour Wednesday evening, looking back with joy at Barack and Michelle Obama’s speeches from Night Two.
Laura Barron-Lopez boasted that the couple “delivered a political one-two punch” and that “The former president and first lady captivated Democrats with a…
During Night One of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, veteran reporter Judy Woodruff falsely reported on Trump.
Discussing how lame-duck President Joe Biden could still help VP Kamala Harris succeed him in office, Woodruff made a hasty claim that showed Trump as unscrupulous, a story based on bad reporting, during the 11 p.m. (ET) hour Monday night.
Judy Woodruff: I would venture…
On Night Two of the Democratic National Convention, anchor Amna Nawaz was talking to House Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi in the PBS booth when they were joined by veteran PBS journalist Judy Woodruff.
Nawaz took advantage by tossing aside her journalist hat and hosting a heartfelt feminist kaffeeklatsch hailing VP Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, as a feminist hero on “the…
The “excitement” began right from the introduction of PBS’s coverage of Night Two of the Democratic National Convention from Chicago, which featured consecutive speeches by Michelle and Barack Obama. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett set up this T-ball of a question: “And former president Barack Obama speaks to the city that helped launch his political career.”
Next, in a staged soundbite, someone off-…
Although he appears as the ostensible voice from the right on the PBS News Hour’s Friday evening political discussion, New York Times columnist David Brooks is no one’s idea of a hard-core conservative. He said “I love Joe Biden” before criticizing Biden’s angry speech on Night One of the Democratic National Convention, after previously stating “I do think Donald Trump is actually a threat to…
