PBS Goes Full Feminist: US on the ‘Cusp' of a Female President (Again)

August 22nd, 2024 5:24 PM

On Night 2 of the Democratic Convention, anchor Amna Nawaz was talking to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the PBS booth when they were joined by veteran PBS journalist Judy Woodruff. Nawaz took advantage by tossing aside her journalist hat and hosting a heartfelt feminist kaffeeklatsch hailing VP Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, as a feminist hero on “the…

PBS’s Woodruff Apologizes for Forwarding Bad Reporting on Trump Call

August 21st, 2024 8:30 PM

During Night One of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, veteran reporter Judy Woodruff falsely reported on a Donald Trump phone call to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that never happened, a call that would have made Trump appear to influence Israel’s war policy in order to help himself win election. Discussing how lame-duck President Joe Biden could still help VP Kamala…

PBS Claim of GOP ‘Demonizing’ Dem Women Popped by Brooks in Two Words

August 21st, 2024 10:12 AM

Although he appears as the ostensible voice from the right on the PBS News Hour’s Friday evening political discussion, New York Times columnist David Brooks is no one’s idea of a hard-core conservative. He said “I love Joe Biden” before criticizing Biden’s angry speech on Night One of the Democratic National Convention, after previously stating “I do think Donald Trump is…

PBS Launched DNC Coverage: 'Enthusiasm... Joy, Excitement' in Chicago'

August 20th, 2024 9:56 AM

PBS News Hour anchors Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz on Sunday night in Chicago, where they were preparing for the start of the Democratic National Convention on Monday by gushing over new Democratic “enthusiasm.” Next, journalist Judy Woodruff’s history of the notorious Democratic National Convention of 1968, where she made an extraneous “convicted felon” reference, and made…

No Mirror! PBS Blames Reagan, Cable News for Declining Trust in Media

August 3rd, 2024 10:28 PM

Wednesday’s PBS News Hour segment posed as an even-handed examination of declining trust in the news media, setting up Fox News on the right matching MSMNC on the left as both being to blame. But veteran reporter Judy Woodruff’s framing of bias as a…

PBS Touts ‘Citizen Investigators....Helping the FBI Track Down' J6ers

January 4th, 2024 10:45 PM

Wednesday’s edition of the PBS NewsHour featured veteran journalist Judy Woodruff cheering on an obsessive group of “citizen investigators” who have teamed up with the media’s favorite domestic surveillance organization to turn in people who entered the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021: “How citizen investigators are helping the FBI track down Jan. 6 rioters.” One suspects…

PBS Special Hits GOP for 'Meaner' Debate, Skips Over Scalise Shooting

December 21st, 2023 11:32 AM

In a year-ending hour-long PBS election special America at a Crossroads, former NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff uncorked a  history of "mean" political debate and violence all conveniently came from the right, with leftism identified as going forward and MAGA going backward, bookended with bits of Woodruff labeling bias, from 1984 to 2023.

STUDY: PBS NewsHour Gives 90% of Its Time to the Radical Left on LGBTQ

October 4th, 2023 11:15 AM

The taxpayer-subsidized Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has a federally mandated obligation to deliver an objective take on public affairs. Yet a new Media Research Center study finds PBS’s flagship NewsHour program aired nine times more coverage in favor of the left-wing "woke" position on so-called "LGBTQ" issues compared to more traditional positions, while 95% of in-studio…

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PBS Star Mourns Divisive Cable News...Like PBS Isn't Hate-GOP TV?

June 2nd, 2023 5:21 PM

Ex-PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff produced an 11-minute report on a professor seeking to "depolarize" our political debates, and they talked about the harmful effects of divisive cable news. As if PBS isn't partisan or divisive or polarizing in its approach to Republicans?

PBS's Judy Woodruff Talks Reparations, Chides Pushback Against CRT

May 29th, 2023 6:45 AM

Wednesday’s PBS NewsHour presented former host Judy Woodruff’s latest entry in her bimonthly foray into America at a Crossroads, the ideological travelogue she’s taken up after retiring from the news desk. She journeyed to her birthplace in Tulsa to amplify a radical call for racial reparations and chide Republicans for allegedly making it harder to teach the history of the Tulsa race…

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PBS’s Woodruff Uses MSNBC's Charlie Sykes as Wisconsin Voter Expert

April 6th, 2023 6:32 AM

Former PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff is now reporting from the field, and previewed the state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. Her primary political analyst was Charlie Sykes of the "center-right" site The Bulwark, who is an almost daily liberal presence on MSNBC.

Be My Leftist Guest: PBS’s False Objectivity Poisons Political Debate

March 27th, 2023 11:02 AM

PBS, established in 1969, has an outdated reputation for delivering a polite, objective take on the news of the day, exemplified by its flagship evening news program, now called the PBS NewsHour. But a new Media Research Center study deflates that outdated assumption, tracking and labeling every guest that appeared on the NewsHour over a four-month period, November 2022…

NewsBusters Podcast: Liberals Are Happy Biden Spurned Fox Interview

February 13th, 2023 9:52 PM

Journalists at CNN and NPR expressed happiness that President Biden spurned any Super Bowl interview with Fox News. Days before those "failed negotiations," Biden received a warm and open-ended interview with the liberals at PBS NewsHour. It washis first interview with a journalist since before the midterm elections. 

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PBS Gives Softball Interview to Biden, Stumped on Low Poll Numbers

February 8th, 2023 11:57 PM

On Wednesday night’s PBS NewsHour, Judy Woodruff followed Biden out on his post-State of the Union road trip to give him a soft-ball interview. During the friendly sit-down, Woodruff couldn’t understand “the disconnect” between what Woodruff described as Biden’s good economy and the polling that shows overwhelmingly that Americans are pessimistic and struggling financially.