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PBS 'Washington Week' Insists Biden Is 'Independent' of DOJ on Trump

June 12th, 2023 1:15 PM

The PBS Friday night journalist roundtable show Washington Week sounded like State-Run TV as guest host Laura Barron-Lopez touted the “revealing and damning” Trump indictment by Biden’s Justice Department. It was the only topic for the half-hour. She methodically repeated the White House spin on the Justice Department's independence as her own take.

NewsBusters Podcast: PBS, NPR, & VOA Provide a Play Mat for Democrats

June 9th, 2023 10:48 PM

"Public" broadcasting is for liberals. PBS and the Voice of America offered softball questions to Biden on his Pride Month activities at the White House. NPR set up House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries to denounce "extreme MAGA Republicans," and attacked the "far right" on election integrity.

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DEFUND PBS: Journo Lobs Biden ‘Question’ on ‘Anti-LGBTQ’ Americans

June 8th, 2023 5:14 PM

White House correspondent Laura Barrón-López of the taxpayer-funded PBS served as an unofficial member of President Biden’s staff Thursday as she lobbed a question at Biden during a press conference with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spewing falsehoods and hate at “anti-LGBTQ, anti-transgender laws” and how such supporters have “turned violent.”

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PBS Decries Pastors Banning Drag Queens From Their Christmas Parade

June 6th, 2023 2:05 PM

PBS NewsHour White House Correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez took a field trip down to Taylor, Texas, for Monday’s show to report on “the frontline of the war on LGBTQ rights” and how allegedly certain people are “challenging their very existence.” At the same time Barron-Lopez condemned a group of pastors for not wanting drag queens at their Christmas parade.

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Journos on PBS Discuss Need to Prevent Airing Trump Live Like CNN Did

May 16th, 2023 2:40 PM

More public broadcasting arrogance was on display on the tax-funded PBS weekly political roundtable Washington Week Friday evening, as journalists huddled around their tax-supported digital fires to brainstorm ideas on how to trip up Republican candidate Donald Trump’s appeal in 2024 by denying him live coverage, as if the press is the first and final arbiter of who should speak…

NewsBusters Podcast: PBS Stands for President Biden's Servants

April 26th, 2023 10:41 PM

Tuesday's PBS NewsHour displayed a stark partisan contrast in coverage. It began with eleven minutes of promotional coverage of Biden's re-election announcement, with no mention of Hunter Biden. They then followed with eight minutes of negative coverage about the civil rape trial of Donald Trump as alleged by journalist E. Jean Carroll.

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PBS Downplays Weak Trump Charges, Pushes Neo-Nazi, White Power Threats

April 8th, 2023 6:50 AM

Former President Trump was arrested on 34 felony counts of bookkeeping fraud involving hush money and appeared in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, as everyone in the world knows. PBS made the most out of the case, devoting a half hour of its evening “news hour” to multiple angles on the indictment. The dubious charges by New York district attorney Alvin Bragg involve years-old allegations…

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PBS: Bragg, Soros Criticisms 'Anti-Semitic' With 'Racist Undertones'

April 1st, 2023 11:22 AM

PBS NewsHour twice accused GOP critics of Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg and left-wing political donor George Soros of anti-Semitism on Friday’s show. Those doing the accusing were not cantankerous liberal guests, but host Amna Nawaz and White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez.

PBS on 'Violent Extremism': Right-Wingers Caused Antifa Violence??

April 1st, 2023 6:58 AM

The PBS NewsHour attacked Donald Trump’s weekend speech in Waco, Texas, with host Amna Nawaz repeating the word “extremist” in her introduction before tossing to White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez. Barron-Lopez and her two liberal guests went far beyond Trump’s Waco rant to condemn substantive conservative policy and philosophy as racist and violent: "Adrienne in your piece…

PBS Rips GOP for 'Restricting' LGBTQ Rights, Dems 'Safeguard' Rights

March 20th, 2023 12:36 PM

Tax-funded PBS NewsHour made clear where it stood on “LGBTQ” issues over two separate segments on two consecutive nights. Host Amna Nawaz introduced the Wednesday evening segment faulting the Republican governor of Tennessee for rejecting federal money for “HIV prevention": "In Tennessee, a fight has been brewing over another public health issue, HIV. It comes as several Republican-…

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PBS: CPAC Now a Hotbed of ‘White Grievance Politics’ and ‘Anti-LGBTQ’

March 5th, 2023 10:58 PM

PBS NewsHour anchor Amna Nawaz introduced an unfriendly segment on the Conservative Political Action Conference's (CPAC) annual gathering on the Potomac. Laura Barron-Lopez’s solemnly intoned field report Friday evening was interspersed with her own opinions about the “white grievance politics” and “false belief” about teaching Critical Race Theory on display.

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PBS Barely Lets Republican Speak on 'Gender-Affirming Care' for Kids

March 4th, 2023 6:50 AM

PBS NewsHour aired an 11-minute segment under the headline “Parents concerned as new state laws restrict rights of transgender children.” There were ten minutes of leftist advocacy, and 48 seconds of Republican rebuttal. Their "expert" compares Republican proposals to "genocide."

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PBS Reporter Spews DNC Points, Ripping Comer on Classified Documents

January 17th, 2023 7:47 PM

On Monday’s PBS NewsHour, the show’s White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez brought Democrat-friendly summations to the Trump and Biden classified-documents controversies, suggesting Trump (and not Biden) may have violated the Espionage Act.

PBS Claim: GOP ‘Immersed in...Far-Right Networks…Moscow to Budapest'

January 13th, 2023 5:12 PM

Under the graphic “Exporting Extremism,” PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett set the table to compare extremism among the right in the U.S. and Brazil in the opening moments of Wednesday evening’s show: New York University history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat joined the show’s White House correspondent as the News Hour engaged in yet another taxpayer-funded attempt to link "…