With “conservative” representative David Brooks indulging in some early whining about the potential “racial intonation” of the Republican National Convention’s line-up of Tuesday evening speakers on immigration, the mantle for PBS’s coverage maintaining some kind of objective coverage fell on the unlikely shoulders of Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report, who shared stats and polling showing…
Night Two of coverage of the Republican National Convention was “Make America Safe Once Again,” with politicians and ordinary Americans making speeches relaying stories about crime and the illegal immigration that causes some of that crime. PBS reporters and anchors sounded the alarm from the start, warning that Republicans are trying to instill unwarranted fear and anxiety in voters.
At 7:08 p.…
PBS’s coverage of Night One of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee got off to a bad start during an interview with Sen. Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, who’d just delivered an early speech to the convention delegates.
At 8:07 ET, News Hour co-anchor Geoff Bennett, who is hosting the network’s taxpayer-funded convention coverage along with fellow News Hour co-anchor Amna Nawaz,…
On the latest episode of the PBS political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, host (and Atlantic editor in chief) Jeffrey Goldberg set up New York Times legal reporter Charlie Savage about the “future of presidential power” after the 6-3 ruling expanded presidential immunity and had the knock-on effect of postponing Trump’s classified documents trial and his sentencing in the overblown…
On Monday’s edition of the CNN International political interview program Amanpour, liberal host Christiane Amanpour treated recent right-leaning significant Supreme Court decisions with fear and contempt, using the liberal media’s trick of emphasizing the liberal dissents from the bench, not the binding rulings from the conservative majority:
In her dissent, Justice Sotomayor wrote, "Orders…
The latest Friday edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic, airing on taxpayer-funded PBS, passed around anecdotes of the various levels of panic from Democratic politicians and strategists, after President Biden’s disastrous debate performance. But one exchange in particular, between host and Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg and Atlantic writer Mark Leibovich, was striking.
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Even after his disastrously doddering debate performance Thursday night, President Joe Biden still has his fans on public television. Friday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., which airs originally on CNN International, stitched together various thin defenses of the Biden presidency, while host Christiane Amanpour’s anti-Trump partisanship was even more ham-handed than usual.
The original…
Taxpayer-supported PBS kept its News Hour crew on deck for Thursday night’s first (and only?) Trump-Biden debate of the 2024 presidential election cycle, airing on CNN and simulcast on PBS. Co-anchors Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett were joined at a long table by analyst Amy Walter, Republican strategist Kevin Madden, and Democratic strategist Guy Cecil.
While Biden’s doddering, decrepit…
The latest edition of the Washington Week with The Atlantic weekly political roundtable tried to change the subject from President Biden’s obvious frailty and mental decline to Donald Trump’s odd anecdotes at campaign rallies.
Show host (and editor of The Atlantic magazine) Jeffrey Goldberg opened the show by noting the looming Biden-Trump debate, admitting both candidates were old and…
In a two-part interview airing Tuesday and Wednesday, the PBS News Hour (note the new space between the last two words, a rebranding effort that caused some recording failures) interviewed controversial COVID responder Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who has a new autobiography out. But Fauci was fawned over by tax-funded PBS,…
