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PBS Likens Trump to 'Authoritarians' for His Media-Bashing 'Playbook'
April 26th, 2020 7:55 PM
On Friday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International host Christiane Amanpour held a discussion on the topic of whether some countries will use the pandemic to increase authoritarian powers, and the segment began with a discussion of President Donald Trump's behavior, with panelists likening him to authoritarian world leaders, and blaming him for many Americans distrusting the news media.
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Amanpour Sees 'Undercover Assault' on 'Clean Air' by Trump
April 24th, 2020 8:55 PM
On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour declared that the Donald Trump administration is "conducting a major undercover assault" on EPA regulations and clean air as she gave a sympathetic forum to Washington Democratic governor and global warming alarmist Jay Inslee to promote his agenda.
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Amanpour Cues Liberal Senator to Say Trump's Urging 'Armed Rebellion'
April 23rd, 2020 6:34 AM
On Monday's Amanpour & Co. PBS and CNN International host Christiane Amanpour cued up her guest, Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, to promote his anti-gun views as the two spoke during a segment that was mostly devoted to the pandemic.
Michelle Obama Gets Her Own PBS Show, After Massive PBS Gov't Bailout
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April 21st, 2020 1:18 PM
As if sapping the joy out of the lunch hour for kids in public school wasn’t enough, Michelle Obama is back to treat all school age youngsters to some educational reading time. The Former First Lady recently announced her new show on PBS KIDS in which she will be reading classic children’s books for the youngsters dealing with quarantine.
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PBS's Woodruff: 'How Many Lives Were Lost' Because of Trump's 'Delay'?
April 18th, 2020 10:58 PM
There's a reason why Donald Trump hasn't granted an interview to PBS since he announced his run for president in 2015. That reason came out in a contentious PBS NewsHour interview on Friday with Vice President Mike Pence. It's nothing like the softness Woodruff has offered Hilllary Clinton. She asked Pence "How many lives do you believe were lost as a result of the delay by this administration…
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PBS NewsHour Finally Discusses Sexual-Assault Charge Against Biden
April 18th, 2020 6:37 AM
On Friday night, more than three weeks after Tara Reade shared her allegation that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her on Capitol Hill in 1993, the PBS NewsHour arrived on the story by interviewing reporter Lisa Lerer, one of the authors of the belated New York Times piece on Reade. Lerer couldn't spin quickly enough away from any comparison of the Biden allegations to the unsubstantiated rape…
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Amanpour Hints Pandemic May Save Lives If It Inspires Climate Reforms
April 17th, 2020 8:54 PM
On Thursday's Amanpour & Co., PBS and CNN International host Christiane Amanpour again devoted a segment of her show to talking up the possibility of preserving the cleaner air that has resulted from people being forced to stay indoors during the deadly coronavirus pandemic. She even suggested that as many as 75,000 lives might be saved as a result of the cleaner air, and fretted over the…
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Cracks in the Wall: CBS, PBS Finally Cover Biden Sexual Assault Claim
April 16th, 2020 11:57 AM
Journalists and networks are finally, reluctantly, being forced to cover the claims of Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer for Joe Biden who accused the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of sexual assault. CBS got to it on Thursday and PBS’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday night.
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On PBS, David Brooks Hammers Trump for 'North Korean Loyalty Tests'
April 11th, 2020 7:15 AM
On the PBS NewsHour Friday night, pundits David Brooks and Mark Shields trashed President Trump's "North Korean-style loyalty tests" and praised Bernie Sanders. Brooks said a commission to make recommendations on reopening the economy is a good thing, but there's the sense that being nice to President Trump is essential to being appointed.
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Yamiche Alcindor Lectures Surgeon General About Offensive ‘Language’
April 10th, 2020 7:05 PM
Supposedly doing the work of the American taxpayers as a PBS correspondent, Yamiche Alcindor used Friday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force daily briefing to try and cancel U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams for urging racial minorities to, along with following CDC coronavirus guidelines, avoid the use of alcohol and drugs for the well-being of “your abuela,” “granddaddy,” “big mama,” and “pop-…
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Amanpour Presses for Biden to Hit Trump, Embrace Sanders
April 10th, 2020 6:45 PM
On Thursday's Amanpour & Co., as she interviewed Joe Biden campaign co-chair and Democratic Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, PBS host Christiane Amanpour made no attempt to press her from the right as the PBS host sympathetically wondered if the Democratic nominee would be critical of President Donald Trump in the near future during such a sensitive time, and also embrace parts of…
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Meyers Hails Alcindor's ‘Very Fair Questions’ at White House Briefings
April 10th, 2020 12:52 PM
On his Thursday night show, aired early Friday morning, NBC’s left-wing Late Night host Seth Meyers fawned over PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor for supposedly asking “very fair questions” during the daily Coronavirus Task Force briefings and marveled at her “poise” and “integrity” in dealing with President Trump.
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Amanpour: 'Nobody More Complicit' Than Fox in 'Deadly' Journalism
April 10th, 2020 9:32 AM
On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co. (aired on PBS and CNN International), host Christiane Amanpour declared that "nobody is more complicit" than Fox News in questionable journalism, and likened the network's coverage of the pandemic to its coverage advocating for the war in Iraq that ended up failing to find the WMD stockpiles that were believed to exist.
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U.S. Press Disgusted Trump Grilled Hong Kong Reporter on China Ties
April 7th, 2020 12:11 AM
At Monday’s coronavirus press conference, President Trump sparred with a female reporter from the Hong Kong-based news outlet, Phoenix TV. Following her question that portrayed China as heroes coming to the aid of the United States, the President pressed her on who she worked for and whether they were in league with the communist regime. This drew outcry from American reporters such as PBS White…
