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During Tuesday night’s debate with Kamala Harris, Donald Trump called out Tim Walz’s extremely radical and, frankly, diabolical abortion stance as governor of Minnesota, but for PBS’s Christiane Amanpour, the fact that Trump even brought it up made him “very, very extreme,” while her panel labeled it "extraordinarily stupid." Amanpour styles herself as a journalist, but when abortion comes up for discussion, she becomes a full-on activist, “So, women were front and center. That as, an issue, was, you know, really something very important. The idea that women in America have now been denied their rights over their own bodies,...

TALENT, Ore. — When Diane Ware’s home state of Oregon proposed a natural gas pipeline that threatened local waterways, she sprang into action — leading workshops on lobbying state lawmakers, mentoring student activists and organizing lectures at her church. But when plans for the pipeline were canceled, Ware, 78, found little pleasure in the victory. The retired elementary school teacher couldn’t shake the feeling that it may be too late to save a planet in deep peril — a prospect tinged with grief, anger and depression. Ware realized she had a case of "climate grief” — and needed help.

One piece of PBS’s coverage of the last night of the Democratic National Convention unwittingly confirmed media labeling bias on PBS and other “mainstream “outlets. First, Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart hailed the Democrat’s vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz for using the supposedly less frightening and more convincing term “gun safety legislation” instead of “gun violence laws” (a term the PBS News Hour also uses). Anchor Geoff Bennett expanded that "language" argument to encompass abortion. Anchor Geoff Bennett, 9:50 p.m. (ET): We have seen Democrats do that on abortion, talking less about abortion rights and more about reproductive freedom. To what...

On Friday, we faced yet another black swan event. We’ve had an attempted Trump assassination, the surprise coup against President Biden, and now Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s, defection and joining up with Donald Trump. Before getting into this and a discussion of the DNC convention in Chicago, I want to expose the partisan perfidy of NPR’s Judy Woodruff and the ease with which she and the press are manipulated by the deep state. Press PatsiesDuring the convention, Judy Woodruff reported (using the most authoritative voice and concerned visage she could muster) that Donald Trump had a telephone conversation with Israeli...

"PBS NewsHour" anchor Judy Woodruff apologized Wednesday for reporting a story about former President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that both leaders have staunchly denied.

In Bob Dylan’s criminally overlooked 2003 cinematic masterpiece, “Masked and Anonymous,” a newspaper editor tells a reporter: “I will tell you this, there is a story there… Make something out of it. And if you can't do that, sir, then — make it up!” It’s advice that actual journalists today all too often follow. Sometimes, however, they get caught, as PBS just was. Rick laid out all the ugly details here.What is noteworthy is that PBS was clearly caught out because it thought it had a sensational story, one so useful to the leftist cause that it just had to...

“PBS NewsHour” senior correspondent Judy Woodruff issued an apology Wednesday after her comments about former President Trump’s role in Gaza cease-fire talks sparked criticism.“The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the prime minister of Israel urging him not to cut a deal right now because … it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” Woodruff said while broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention on Monday.****snip*** In a post on social platform X, Woodruff said Wednesday she wanted to clarify her comments. “As I said, this was not based on my original reporting; I was referring...

[Dearborn mayor: ‘The door is cracked open’ for Harris to address frustrations over Gaza.' PBS News Hour. Aug 7, 2024 6:45 PM EDT]Watching the so predictable lines of this pro jihad "Palestinian" mayor, one of his drama lines were that his/their position is "center."Asked about their "uncommitted" voice drive, then about Trump. He reminded the obvious of Trump's actions, such as moving the embassy to Jerusalem, he added about his cutting aid without Amna mentioning Palestinian Authority 'Pay for Slay' bloody problem, of course.As is typical, he cited the ICJ to "affirm" his propaganda. While the screen shows the anti-Israel...

Vice President Harris leads by 3 points in a head-to-head 2024 match-up against former President Trump and in a six-way contest that includes third-party candidates, according to polling data released Tuesday. A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll, conducted Aug. 1-4, 2024, shows Harris leading Trump, 51 percent support to 48 percent, with 2 percent of respondents undecided, in a two-way race. Harris also leads Trump among independents, 53 percent support to 44 percent.

Who’s going to win? Voters in a handful of battleground swing states will decide whether former President Donald Trump will return to the White House or if Democrats’ gamble of replacing President Biden with Vice President Harris as their nominee will keep him out. A Morning Edition team visited Pittsburgh and some of its suburbs to hear from voters in Pennsylvania about how they’re feeling about the revamped race. We knocked on doors, visited local parks and attractions and even attended a family dinner. Voter turnout here in Allegheny County was critical to Biden winning the state four years ago....

On Islamist Amna Nawaz's PBS News Hour July 18, 2024. Stephanie Sy refers to the Temple Mount as "al aqsa mosque revered by both Muslims and Jews." Really? Which non Muslims revere a mosque? Question. Why is Muslims regular visits not a "provocation," But only non-Muslims' is? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-netanyahu-makes-surprise-visit-to-gaza

Islamist Amna Nawaz covering RNC on her PBS news hour turns away / hides the clip of 'Swastika Palestine' protests on screen at RNC convention.

Even with Islamists using their civilian poulation... Google search, capturedGaza death toll: "Only some 24,000 fatalities have been identified at hospitals. The tolls, which cannot be verified, include some 15,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed in battle."

A group of Republican senators reached out to National Public Radio (NPR), urging the network to “start a course correction” to shake off a left-wing bias controversy under the leadership of CEO Katherine Maher. Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) led a letter sent to Maher on Monday, highlighting concerns raised by Uri Berliner, a longtime editor at NPR who resigned this month after he stoked fresh scrutiny of the media organization with claims that it “lost America’s trust” with an increasingly leftist bent. “It is not NPR’s job to tell Americans what to think but to inform them with unbiased facts....

RINO, Republican In Name Only, is a slur used against Republicans who fail one or more extreme right wing purity tests. It’s likely Reagan, Goldwater, the Bushes, Eisenhower, John McCain and other Republicans icons would be labeled RINOs by the standards of Trumpism. Here's a new term – PINO. Patriot In Name Only. Examples: If you disrespect 1st Amendment's free press protections and call Journalists “Enemies of the People,” you may be a PINO.

Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio has placed a trigger warning on the Declaration of Independence, a move that demonstrates how hopelessly woke the station has become. The news comes just weeks after a longtime employee blew the whistle on how the organization shifted to publishing far-left dribble after Donald Trump won in 2016.

Katherine Maher has a golden résumé, with stints and affiliations at UNICEF, the Atlantic Council, the World Economic Forum, the State Department, Stanford University, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She was chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. And, as of last month, she is CEO of National Public Radio. Mere weeks into this new role, Maher has stepped into controversy. Long-time NPR senior editor Uri Berliner published a scathing indictment of the self-professed “public” media service’s ideological capture. Rather than address the substance of these criticisms—which will ring true to anyone who has listened to...

New video was resurfaced showing NPR’s new CEO Katherine Maher complaining about the first amendment on a panel hosted by the Atlantic Council. According to the Daily Mail: Maher called the First Amendment the “number one challenge” in American journalism during a panel discussion. Maher noted the First Amendment provides a “fairly robust protection of rights,” making it “a little tricky to address some of the real challenges of where bad information comes from.”

VIDEOKatherine Maher, the CEO of National Public Radio, revealed her inner O'Brien when discussing how there is no single objective truth. Her 1984 type blather comes directly from the Neiman Lab at Harvard whose guiding philosophy is something called "Solidarity Journalism" which has become the prevailing philosophy of liberal "journalists." Here are direct quotes about Solidarity Journalism taken directly from the Nieman Lab webisite (link at bottom):"Solidarity eclipses objectivity as journalism’s dominant ideal."“Objectivity as an aspirational ideal ends up encouraging journalists to avoid addressing what matters.”"Aiming for objectivity as a way to resolve uncertainty, though, leads journalism far astray from...

NPR has suspended Uri Berliner, the senior editor who published a bombshell essay a week ago that claimed that the publicly funded outlet has “lost America’s trust” by approaching news stories with a left-wing bias. NPR media writer David Folkenflik revealed on Tuesday that Berliner beginning on Friday was suspended for five days without pay. Folkenflik, who reviewed a copy of the letter from NPR brass, said that the company told the editor he had failed to secure its approval for outside work for other news outlets — a requirement of NPR journalists. NPR called the letter a “final warning,”...