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VP debate moderator Gwen Ifill: in the tank for Barack Obama? (didn't tell CPB, plays race card) - 10/01/08

Unbeknownst to the McCain campaign (link), Gwen Ifill of PBS - host of Thursday's vice presidential debate - has a book due to be released Inauguration Day (link): Gwen Ifill of the Public Broadcasting Service program "Washington Week" is promoting "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama," in which she argues the "black political structure" of the civil rights movement is giving way to men and women who have benefited from the str

Presidential "debate" moderators: Jim Lehrer, Gwen Ifill, Bob Schieffer, Tom Brokaw - 08/05/08

The four moderators for this year's only presidential "debates" have been selected and they're, of course, four mainstream media hacks. Jim Lehrer of PBS NewsHour will moderate the first presidential debate, Tom Brokaw of NBC News the second (in a townhall format), and Bob Schieffer of CBS News the third.

PBS "Engage" deletes comment critical of Gwen Ifill - 06/30/08

[PBS re-posted my comment; see the update.] The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) has a relatively new effort called "Engage" [1] in which they solicit feedback from their viewers. However, they only want the "right kind" of feedback and are willing to delete or ignore comments that are critical of their (public) network. In this particular case, a comment I left that was critical of Gwen Ifill appeared and then was later deleted. The whole sequence of events - and the comments in question - are included below. If the reader thinks the comment shouldn't have been deleted, please contact PBS...

PBS NewsHour's Soviet-style immigration coverage - 12/13/06

The PBS NewsHour is no longer an accurate source of information on immigration but is now simply a Soviet-style propaganda source.

PBS NewsHour: pro-illegal immigration, pro-amnesty bias - 11/05/06

In the past, on a few of the occasions when the PBS NewsHour has covered immigration matters they've invited on those who were legitimately on different sides of the issue. In the past several months, however, their idea of "debate" has switched to featuring people who are on the same side.