PBS president denies network’s glaring political bias
PBS President and Chief Executive Officer Paula Kerger last week denied the network’s overwhelming Left-leaning bias.
In May, the White House published a fact sheet showing that PBS used the term “far-Right” 162 times over a six-month period, compared to just six mentions of “far-Left.” Last year, the network gave the Republican National Convention 72% negative coverage while fawning over the Democratic National Convention with 88% positive coverage.
A more recent study from the Media Research Center (MRC) found that the PBS show “Washington Week with The Atlantic” exhibited a 93% bias against Republicans between April and June 2025. Even Trump actions and policies that are popular with the American people—such as the Iran strikes last month and his crackdown on immigration—were skewered by the show’s panelists, who discussed the Iran strikes with 83% negative coverage and immigration policies with 100% negative coverage.
But Kerger denies any bias in reporting by the network, which has received $445 million in taxpayer funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
“I don’t think that Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood is a biased program,” she told CNN News Central co-host Boris Sanchez. “It teaches children basic skills around letters and numbers and when you look at the breadth of programing that we — we are very much committed to serving all of America. The news programing that we do represents about 10% of our broadcast schedule, and that includes the ‘News Hour,’ of which I’m very proud of, of the excellence of the journalism of that series.”
‘We’re serving a multiplicity of viewpoints’
In 2023, PBS pushed the hoax that Joe Biden was mentally “acute” despite the obvious truth. In 2021, the outlet aired a children’s program to “inspire” children that featured a drag queen who called himself “Lil’ Miss Hot Mess.” PBS, which produces “Sesame Street,” has used the children’s show to promote vaccines, gender ideology, and racial division, which includes hatred of White Americans. In 2017, PBS produced a film called “Real Boy” about a girl who identifies as transgender.
“We’re always interested, obviously, in making sure that we’re serving a multiplicity of viewpoints,” Kerger went on. “You know, Bill Buckley made his home on public broadcasting with a series called ‘Firing Line,’ which continues today with Margaret Hoover,” Kerger claimed. “We are interested in having different perspectives that we bring forward. But when I look at the range of our programing on public broadcasting, I can’t — I can’t make any sense of an argument that we are somehow biased in any way.”
‘The closest thing we’ve ever had to an American Pravda’
On Friday, Congress voted to defund PBS and NPR, another Left-wing propaganda outlet. Together, both networks had been fueled with $1.1 billion in taxpayer funds.
“NPR and PBS are not neutral media outlets,” Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) said last week. “They’re the closest thing we’ve ever had to an American Pravda. And that’s why we’re voting to end their taxpayer funding.”
