PBS News Hour’s coverage Tuesday of the death of former Republican vice president Dick Cheney wasn't a particularly generous obituary, bookended with belittling jabs at Cheney from both anchor and reporter. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: "….and we examine the life of the highly influential and equally controversial former Vice President Dick Cheney." That led into a "controversy"-filled report by…
The PBS News Hour devoted the first 14 minutes of Monday’s show to the supposedly dire emergency that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP benefits, known colloquially as food stamps) ran out two days ago during the ongoing federal government “shutdown” before a ruling that the government must fund the food aid.
First up, a Lisa Desjardins report from various food banks across the…
Monday’s PBS News Hour invited Abby Phillip, liberal host of CNN's NewsNight with Abby Phillip, for a gush-fest over “A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power,” her new book on the former inflammatory Democratic politician Jesse Jackson.
There were no recollections of Jackson’s 1984 campaign-era “Hymie-town” smear of Jews in New York City, nothing of his…
The PBS News Hour marked its 50th anniversary on Friday with a look back at its coverage of pivotal historical events. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett: "Before we go, we have a look back at our beginnings and at how the "News Hour" has evolved over five decades, while remaining true to the principles that defined this program from the start." And what “principles” would those be?
On Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg devoted 14 minutes -- over half the show’s 22-minute discussion time -- to the East Wing demolition undertaken by President Trump, using private funding, in order to build a much-needed White House ballroom.
After the introduction, where Goldberg complained “President Trump this week took a wrecking ball to the East…
PBS News Hour Middle East correspondent Leila Molana-Allen, whose reporting for PBS over the last year betrays her anti-Israel partisanship, interviewed terrorist Marwan Barghouti’s son, Arab Barghouti for Tuesday’s edition, with nauseating results.
Co-anchor Amna Nawaz’s intro was no less galling: "As the fragile cease-fire holds, Palestinians are grappling with what comes next…
The Supreme Court seems set to use a case regarding a map laying out U.S. House of Representatives districts in Louisiana to overturn Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which would end the practice of racial gerrymandering -- majority-black districts carved out in a way that all but guarantees Democratic representation.
Section 2 of the VRA forbid voting qualifications that…
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour hosted retired liberal-leaning Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and tried to get him to condemn the current right-leaning Supreme Court, while making liberal assumptions regarding Kennedy’s judicial philosophy. Kennedy, who retired in 2018, talked about his new memoir, Life, Law & Liberty.
Bennett politely prodded Kennedy to justify his principled, First…
Sunday’s PBS News Weekend devoted eight minutes to the tired leftist cliché that Republicans have ushered in a new Orwellian era, using a new documentary about writer George Orwell by director Raoul Peck. After years of PBS News capitalizing “Black” but not “white” in transcripts, calling illegal immigrants “undocumented,” and insisting men can choose to become women and boys choose to become…
Paramount Skydance, the giant media conglomerate which owns CBS, recently acquired iconoclastic news site The Free Press, and just announced that FP’s founder Bari Weiss will become editor-in-chief of CBS News, causing conniption fits in legacy media newsrooms. Monday’s PBS News Hour brought on the perfect PBS News Hour type of guest to discuss the move. Oliver Darcy, publisher of the media…
