On Sunday’s PBS News Weekend, anchor John Yang introduced a self-satisfied segment on a new documentary from the literary, so-called free speech advocates at Pen America, based on the misnomer that books are being “banned” from schools and public libraries, as opposed to being removed due to concerns over age appropriateness regarding explicit sexual content.
PBS is picking up the baton from…
The Atlantic’s take-over of PBS’s weekly journalist roundtable has formed a closed circle of liberal grievance.
After Washington Week with The Atlantic moderator Jeffrey Goldberg cracked jokes about Rep. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) comment about Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought wanting to shut down the government “since puberty,” he turned to his Atlantic colleague Ashley Parker and…
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour featured dueling Democrat-Republican interviews on the government shutdown, from House House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Rep. Mike Haridopolos (R-FL). Can you spot the difference? Here's one question to the Republican:
Co-anchor Nawaz: "We have also seen the president continue to post these racist videos with a sombrero superimposed on Leader Jeffries'…
The artsy self-regard was off the charts on Monday’s PBS News Hour, whose producers surely felt blessed that they were able to work into their “Arts in Action” segment Bruce Springsteen’s surprise appearance at a New York film festival the night before in which he called the Trump administration “treasonous.”
Amna Nawaz: At a surprise New York film festival performance last night, rock…
The impassioned discussion on Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic of course involved the Trump administration’s decision to indict former FBI director James Comey for lying to Congress.
Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg set the scene: "The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey represents an important Rubicon crossed. Never in modern history has the president used the tools of…
Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic featured regular roundtable journalist Vivian Salama of The Atlantic discussing the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, or rather, the GOP’s supposedly frightening and hypocritical reactions to Kirk’s assassination: "President Trump puts television networks on notice and stokes fears that he`s using the government to silence his critics…
The assassination of Charlie Kirk, conservative activist and debater and founder of Turning Point USA, unleashed loads of objectionable coverage from the legacy press, some appalling, some ridiculous, some ignorant, like this take, by PBS News Hour co-anchor Amna Nawaz on the September 15 program, covering one of the appalling examples of coverage:
Amna Nawaz: ….Multiple media professionals both…
Monday’s PBS News Hour alerted its viewers to a new right-wing threat: Education videos: “Why critics are alarmed about the influence of PragerU’s educational videos.” “Alarmed” is certainly a strong word, and one that journalist Stephanie Sy’s actual report failed to fulfill. It's noteworthy that it’s only PragerU’s right-leaning world-view expressed in the educational videos aimed at schoolkids…
Saturday’s PBS News Hour accused conservatives of doxxing the ghouls who celebrated the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA. The criticism came up in a conversation between substitute host/reporter Lisa Desjardins and PBS's dubious extremism expert Cynthia Miller-Idriss, the far-left director of American University's Polarization and Extremism…
Saturday’s PBS News Hour accused conservatives of doxxing the ghouls who celebrated the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA. The criticism came up in a conversation between substitute host/reporter Lisa Desjardins and PBS's dubious extremism expert Cynthia Miller-Idriss, the far-left director of American University's Polarization and Extremism…
