Weeks after it happened and days after other networks belatedly picked up the story, PBS News Hour on Tuesday arrived on the scene of the stabbing murder of Ukrainian refugee Irina Zarutska aboard a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina. Host Geoff Bennett painted the tragedy as a cynical Republican talking point, one "that claimed the life of a young Ukrainian refugee and has become a…
Monday’s Amanpour & Co., which airs on PBS after showing on CNN International, hosted failed Georgia political candidate Stacey Abrams to discuss her Time magazine jeremiad against the autocrat Donald Trump.
The show’s introduction included a representative clip from Abrams (“We are in the midst of an authoritarian regime”) and things got no less hysterical from there, with substitute host…
Sunday’s edition of PBS News Weekend led with the anchor and his guest blaming President Trump for using social media to lead to “heightened tensions” in Chicago before his promised crackdown on crime and illegal immigration in that high-crime city (as if the high murder rate and crime rate in general wasn’t stoking tensions before).
Anchor John Yang opened the show portraying Chicago as…
On Friday’s Amanpour & Co. substitute host Bianna Golodryga opened with one of the show’s kookiest anti-Trump guests yet, “Doomsday Scenario” newsletter author Garrett Graff. In 2019 he wrote that Fox News was a threat to national security and recently compared ICE to Hitler’s Gestapo, so he has a history to live up and he certainly brought in the accusations of fascism and “authoritarianism…
Six minutes into the newest episode of PBS’s weekly public affairs show Firing Line came a surprising admission from guest Sam Tanenhaus, whose 1,000-page authorized biography of conservative icon William F. Buckley has been published after a long gestation period. Buckley, who died in 2008, famously founded and hosted Firing Line between 1966 and 1999. The program was relaunched in 2018…
On Monday’s PBS News Hour, co-anchor Amna Nawaz discussed the latest arrest of the media’s favorite Maryland man, illegal immigrant and alleged gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, mistakenly deported to El Salvador and held in prison there before being ordered returned to the United States.
The show’s Monday political discussion with NPR’s Tamara Keith also brought up Trump’s crackdown…
Friday’s PBS News Hour unleashed a strangely energetic fusillade against the retail behemoth Target for supposedly bowing to Donald Trump and discreetly rolling back its objectively divisive and harmful diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, hosting the pastor leading the left-wing boycott and parroting his talking points.
The segment is particularly jarring given the hostile…
Don’t question tax-funded museum wokery: The last segment of Wednesday’s PBS News Hour presented leftist historian Peniel Joseph to jump on a social media post by President Trump claiming the Smithsonian Institution had gone overboard dwelling on American slavery.
PBS is the latest network rankled by Trump’s insistence that the Smithsonian museums emphasize America’s…
Friday’s PBS News Hour picked the most partisan voice imaginable to make its knee-jerk anti-Trump case against the president’s executive order: Mac Elias, a partisan Democrat lawyer and MSNBC personality who worked for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, spreading conspiracy theories about Trump being in collusion with Russia.
Co-host Geoff Bennett opened the story by unconvincingly portraying the…
President Trump’s use of emergency powers to federalize the D.C. police and deploy the National Guard to America’s disgracefully crime-ridden capital city was greeted with racially charged animus by the (for the moment) taxpayer-funded pundits on PBS’s Washington Week in Review on Friday evening. Show moderator and Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg brought up what he “a domestic…
