Clay Waters | October 17, 2025
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour hosted retired liberal-leaning Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and tried to get him to condemn the current right-leaning Supreme Court, while making liberal assumptions regarding Kennedy’s judicial philosophy. Kennedy, who retired in 2018, talked about his new memoir, Life, Law & Liberty. Bennett politely prodded Kennedy to justify his principled, First…
Clay Waters | October 13, 2025
Sunday’s PBS News Weekend devoted eight minutes to the tired leftist cliché that Republicans have ushered in a new Orwellian era, using a new documentary about writer George Orwell by director Raoul Peck. After years of PBS News capitalizing “Black” but not “white” in transcripts, calling illegal immigrants “undocumented,” and insisting men can choose to become women and boys choose to become…
Clay Waters | October 9, 2025
Paramount Skydance, the giant media conglomerate which owns CBS, recently acquired iconoclastic news site The Free Press, and just announced that FP’s founder Bari Weiss will become editor-in-chief of CBS News, causing conniption fits in legacy media newsrooms. Monday’s PBS News Hour brought on the perfect PBS News Hour type of guest to discuss the move. Oliver Darcy, publisher of the media…
Clay Waters | October 8, 2025
On Sunday’s PBS News Weekend, anchor John Yang introduced a self-satisfied segment on a new documentary from the literary, so-called free speech advocates at Pen America, based on the misnomer that books are being “banned” from schools and public libraries, as opposed to being removed due to concerns over age appropriateness regarding explicit sexual content. PBS is picking up the baton from…
Clay Waters | October 6, 2025
The Atlantic’s take-over of PBS’s weekly journalist roundtable has formed a closed circle of liberal grievance. After Washington Week with The Atlantic moderator Jeffrey Goldberg cracked jokes about Rep. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) comment about Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought wanting to shut down the government “since puberty,” he turned to his Atlantic colleague Ashley Parker and…
Clay Waters | October 4, 2025
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour featured dueling Democrat-Republican interviews on the government shutdown, from House House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Rep. Mike Haridopolos (R-FL). Can you spot the difference? Here's one question to the Republican: Co-anchor Nawaz: "We have also seen the president continue to post these racist videos with a sombrero superimposed on Leader Jeffries'…
Clay Waters | September 30, 2025
The artsy self-regard was off the charts on Monday’s PBS News Hour, whose producers surely felt blessed that they were able to work into their “Arts in Action” segment Bruce Springsteen’s surprise appearance at a New York film festival the night before in which he called the Trump administration “treasonous.” Amna Nawaz: At a surprise New York film festival performance last night, rock legend…
Clay Waters | September 28, 2025
The impassioned discussion on Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic of course involved the Trump administration’s decision to indict former FBI director James Comey for lying to Congress. Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg set the scene: "The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey represents an important Rubicon crossed. Never in modern history has the president used the tools of state power…
Clay Waters | September 22, 2025
Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic featured regular roundtable journalist Vivian Salama of The Atlantic discussing the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, or rather, the GOP’s supposedly frightening and hypocritical reactions to Kirk’s assassination: "President Trump puts television networks on notice and stokes fears that he`s using the government to silence his critics…
Clay Waters | September 21, 2025
The assassination of Charlie Kirk, conservative activist and debater and founder of Turning Point USA, unleashed loads of objectionable coverage from the legacy press, some appalling, some ridiculous, some ignorant, like this take, by PBS News Hour co-anchor Amna Nawaz on the September 15 program, covering one of the appalling examples of coverage: Amna Nawaz: ….Multiple media professionals both…