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PBS Peddles ‘Pregnant People’ Propaganda Attacking Catholic Hospitals

March 18th, 2024 7:56 PM

PBS News Weekend ran yet another propagandistic take on how the lack of access to abortions and treatment of related pregnancy complications was the fault of Catholic hospitals: “Investigation finds policies at Catholic-run hospitals restrict reproductive health care.” From the introduction by weekend anchor John Yang: Tonight on PBS News Weekend, with hundreds of thousands…

PBS: Crackdown on DEI's 'Chilling Effect’ on Black Female Academics

March 17th, 2024 5:49 PM

Thursday’s edition of the PBS NewsHour featured another way for the taxpayer-supported news outlet to section off certain subjects from balanced discussion -- a “Race Matters” segment on the alleged struggles black women face in academia, had no dissenting voices, just the host and the guest agonizing over the purported problem. The story was driven by the suicide of a college…

NPR on Media: 'Can You Believe in Democracy Without Being Pro-Biden?'

March 16th, 2024 7:43 PM

Former NPR anchor David Greene performed a very pompous rhetorical dance on the latest podcast Left Right and Center out of Santa Monica NPR station KCRW. Greene is supposedly the “Center,” but he’s a typical leftist, as you can see. He proclaimed "I, as a journalist, believe in democracy," and asked "Can you believe in democracy without being pro-Biden?"

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Capehart Hails Schumer's 'Incredible Speech' Trashing Netanyahu

March 16th, 2024 9:45 AM

On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart hailed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s “incredible speech” where he trashed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an obstacle to peace and called for new Israeli elections. His counterpart, New York Times columnist David Brooks, tried to have it both ways, claiming he agreed…

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NPR Reporter Says DeSantis Law's 'Gutted' AND 'Very Much In Effect'

March 16th, 2024 6:40 AM

On the PBS NewsHour on Thursday night, they turned to Danielle Prieur, a reporter for NPR station WMFE in Orlando. She couldn’t make up her mind on what had happened: The law was both “gutted” and “very much in effect” at the same time.

PBS Heads to Border for Immigration, But Skips Another B-Word (Biden)

March 14th, 2024 11:08 PM

PBS NewsHour co-anchor Amna Nawaz escaped her D.C.-based news studio and ran to the Arizona-Mexico border, filing from both sides of the border in three reports over three evenings. It makes sense for reporters to be on the scene of a flashpoint of a big election-year issue. Yet American electoral politics were completely absent from the three-day conversation, even as the…

Column: PBS and The New York Times Scowl at the Conservative 'Mandate'

March 13th, 2024 6:00 AM

The Heritage Foundation has been issuing its doorstop-length “Mandate for Leadership” books since Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980. But this is the first one that has inflamed The New York Times into painting it as a manual for autocracy. On the March 8 Washington Week With The Atlantic on PBS, moderator Jeffrey “Obama Is Awesome” Goldberg cued up Times book…

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Sad: PBS's Denial of Biden’s ‘Illegal’ Apology; 'Corrects' Trump Claim

March 12th, 2024 8:52 PM

The Monday evening edition of the PBS NewsHour featured a spicier-than-usual “Politics Monday” segment with NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Cook of the Cook Political Report, both seeing a more favorable issue landscape for President Joe Biden. But it was co-anchor Geoff Bennett that sucked up to Biden the most.

False Balance: PBS Hosts Two 'Republicans' To Bash Trump, Current GOP

March 11th, 2024 7:11 PM

PBS News Weekend did something unusual on Saturday’s show: It presented two "Republicans" to talk politics. (PBS news shows are notoriously averse to hosting conservative guests.) But the two weren’t on to push conservative policies, certainly not to endorse overwhelming GOP primary favorite Donald Trump, but to evaluate the party’s divisions from an anti-Trump, anti-conservative…

PBS: US 'Safety Net' Not Generous Enough: 60% Americans Have Been Poor

March 8th, 2024 7:11 PM

The PBS NewsHour launched a new series Monday, “America’s Safety Net,” taking a long-term historical view of welfare programs (spoiler: there’s not nearly enough of it). Yes, the taxpayer-supported show is advocating for more taxpayer funding of the so-called safety net. Anchor Geoff Bennett kicked off the series with an overview beginning in 1935 with Franklin Roosevelt signing the…

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PBS: Republicans ‘Were Not Listening to That Speech....Disrespectful'

March 8th, 2024 6:23 AM

PBS congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins after the speech: “You may have seen this on the screen. House Republicans were not listening to that speech, by and large. Not just out of defiance, they just seemed not to be paying attention. They were almost only here physically, almost bordering on a disrespectful way, and is something I've never seen to this degree before.”

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State-Run TV: Pre-State of the Union Softballs for KJP on PBS

March 7th, 2024 11:18 AM

The PBS NewsHour was friendly territory for Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday night. PBS anchor Geoff Bennett and Jean-Pierre were both MSNBC regulars a few years back. The whole interview sounded like a Democrat strategy session. How does Biden use this speech to beat Trump? It's allegedly a speech appealing for "unity," but it's a campaign speech?

PBS Downplays 9-0 Trump Win, Object to Headlines of 'Unanimous' Ruling

March 5th, 2024 10:22 PM

The PBS NewsHour on Monday reacted badly to the Supreme Court’s 9-0 body blow to liberal dreams of having Donald Trump removed from state ballots in November and thus denying voters their choice of presidential candidates. But PBS reporter William Brangham tried desperately to salvage the credibility of the dubious original case involving a bizarre (and now officially unconstitutional…

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PBS: ‘Pregnant People’ Fooled By ‘So-Called Crisis Pregnancy Centers'

March 3rd, 2024 10:45 PM

PBS News Weekend anchor John Yang on Saturday threw some trendy trans silliness into his introduction to a news story suspicious of crisis pregnancy centers that actually help women deliver their babies instead of aborting them (which PBS has no problem with): Crisis pregnancy centers provide counseling and other prenatal services from an anti-abortion perspective. Their supporters…