Monday’s PBS NewsHour handed over a news segment to an ostensible ratings rival, NBC News and its investigative reporter/podcaster Mike Hixenbaugh, who has a new book out with the portentous title They Came for the Schools -- One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms.
Hixenbaugh, along with his onscreen NBC reporting counterpart Antonia Hylton (a frequent…
The lead story on Saturday’s PBS News Weekend was based on an American Cancer Society study on how bias and stigma can make LGBTQ people get cancer. At least that’s what Yang seemed to be suggesting to his ACS-representing guest.
It’s more evidence that the tax-funded ostensibly objective news network truly is a niche-network for left-wing obsessions, like the gender alphabet, as this…
This Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS, guest hosted by PBS congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins, set the bar awfully high for Republicans before they were permitted to criticize the Biden Justice Department.
Desjardins brought up Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland (whom the House of Representatives really voted to hold in contempt) and the earth-shattering news that…
Hunter Biden, son of the president, was found guilty by a Wilmington, Del., jury Tuesday of three felonies related to a gun purchase he made in 2018 while under the influence of drugs. PBS NewsHour’s White House reporter’s Laura Barron-Lopez empathy-fueled story noted President Joe Biden both as father figure and defender of the judicial process, while his wife and Hunter’s mother Jill Biden was…
Transgender youth researcher and psychiatrist Dr. Jack Turban once again appeared on PBS Weekend, this time plugging his new book Free to Be: Understanding Kids and Gender Identity. Turban is director of the Gender Psychiatry Program at the University of California, San Francisco and of course a strong supporter of controversial gender identity surgeries and of the entire spectrum of trans-…
The Friday edition of the PBS NewsHour featured a discussion with congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins on what Donald Trump is looking for in a vice presidential running mate (“loyalty….including whether the 2020 election had fraud in it or not”). But it took a turn into PBS’s new pro-Biden campaign angle, protecting American “democracy” from Trump’s potential vice presidential picks. …
President Biden’s surprise decision to limit (on paper, anyway) the number of migrants seeking asylum on the southern border led the PBS NewsHour on Tuesday, in a story and a following interview that alternately covered for President Biden (he’s no immigrant-hating Trump!) and chided Biden from the pro-open-border left (though there is doubt among conservatives as to how tough Biden’s executive…
On Monday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., which airs on PBS and CNN International, journalist Walter Isaacson talked to George Stephanopoulos, the former Democratic operative in President Bill Clinton’s White House and now the cohost of ABC’s Good Morning America and the Sunday political roundtable ABC News This Week, about his new book The Situation Room -- The Inside Story of Presidents…
The PBS NewsHour quickly rounded up its semi-regular GOP focus group and aired a segment one day after Donald Trump’s conviction in a Manhattan courtroom on 34 felony counts for falsifying business records (a misdemeanor charge pumped up to felony). Leaning against conventional wisdom somewhat, the collection of 2016 and 2020 Trump voters said that Trump’s conviction had made them less likely to…
The interview show Amanpour & Co., which airs on CNN International and taxpayer-supported PBS, aired a conversation between host Christiane Amanpour and Jelani Cobb, the dean of Columbia Journalism School, both fretting over the perils of Trump and bringing the Joe McCarthy era into the discussion (you know it's serious when journalists bring up the Red Scare).
Monday’s show included this…
