While covering Night One of the Democratic convention from Chicago, PBS News Hour reporter Laura Barron-Lopez was as energized as a Democratic delegate (or PBS’s introductory voiceover to its coverage), gushing over a “Kamala Cake” featured by a local bakery and relaying the “palpable enthusiasm” from the convention floor.
Barron-Lopez, who usually covers the White House, was quite enthused with…
PBS News Hour anchors Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz on Sunday night from Chicago prepared for the start of the Democratic National Convention on Monday by gushing over new Democratic “enthusiasm.” Barron-Lopez described how the “nervous” and “grim” mood voters felt when Biden was the nominee had been replaced with “hope” and “excitement” and how black women were particularly excited (she…
Monday evening’s PBS News Hour promoted more liberal election fear-mongering, this time from the ostensibly objective but actually leftist American Bar Association. Anchor Amna Nawaz was eager to push its fear against the threat of authoritarianism in America under a second Trump term as a bipartisan concern.
In the process, it tried to paint strongly anti-Trump former Judge J. Michael Luttig,…
The PBS News Hour on Wednesday continued to act as a get-out-the-vote movement for the Harris/Walz Democratic presidential campaign, with the second guest appearance on the program of Abdullah Hahmoud, the Democratic Muslim mayor of Dearborn, Michigan.
It wasn’t a challenging interview, but instead a delicate probe to see if the pick of Walz (and not the Jewish Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro,…
PBS “special correspondent” Simona Foltyn, who covers the Middle East, made the case for the anti-Jewish terrorist group Hamas after Israel’s bravura assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas terrorist chief, on Tuesday’s edition of the taxpayer-funded PBS News Hour.
Anchor Amna Nawaz introduced the report from Lebanon by making the familiar fatalist argument that there’s no point in killing…
After the Kamala Harris campaign named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, PBS News Hour anchor Geoff Bennett conducted a cozy interview with his fellow Minnesota pol, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, on Tuesday evening, and quickly transformed himself into a liberal media cliché. Bennett: "The Trump campaign is already pouncing, calling him dangerously liberal and saying that the Harris/Walz ticket…
The Harris campaign has been floating atop a celebratory media bubble for two weeks, and Laura Barron-Lopez of the PBS News Hour is not about to pop it. On Monday’s edition she was basically getting out the vote for a specific Democratic demographic, black women in Georgia, interviewing several of them. She’d previously heard from the same group last week when Harris was campaigning in Atlanta…
The Saturday edition of PBS News Weekend was hosted by the paper’s most liberal reporter Laura Barron-Lopez, and she took full advantage, harkening back to Donald Trump’s wild appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists to accuse the former president of appealing to racists and anti-semites.
Providing PBS-selected back up was a hard-left academic who hailed the underwhelming…
Friday’s PBS News Hour followed Laura Barron-Lopez on the Kamala Harris campaign trail, testing out the Democrats’ new line of personal attack: Branding Republicans as “weird” and “creepy.” Barron-Lopez dropped her previous sensitivity to rhetoric and seemed to approve of the new tactic. Anchor Geoff Bennett set things up, then threw it to White House correspondent Barron-Lopez, who was gushy…
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour segment posed as an even-handed examination of declining trust in the news media, setting up Fox News on the right matching MSMNC on the left as both being to blame. But veteran reporter Judy Woodruff’s framing of bias as a problem only for cable news and its opinion-heavy political coverage, leaves out the constant bias that occurs on those presumed bastions of…
