Unbiased News at PBS NewsHour

Now, more than ever before, television news shows have discarded all pretense of reporting the news and unabashedly deliver up biased opinions and sometimes out and out demonstrable lies about people, politics, culture, and other issues to a loyal narrowly focussed audience who eschew any other source of news or opinion, even from immediate family. For those fixated on single source news channels, like Fox News or MSNBC, they should bite the bullet and add PBS NewsHour to their TV line up. An audience convinced that everything except what they watch is fake news needs a good dose of balanced reporting and point counterpoint analysis of the news. They can find that on the PBS NewsHour.

If you watch, or occasionally watch Fox News, you will notice that they generally shy away from any news story that does not support their steady drumbeat that Democrats are evil incarnate and socialists in fools' clothing bent on destroying American democracy. Any outlandish conspiracy theory wandering the passageways of the dark web they treat as truth and have a roster of supplicants at the ready to spout the conspiracy if they feel the need to sort of keep it at arm's length to them personally. At times it appears they are goading their audience to rise up in insurrection.

Over at MSNBC you will be hard pressed to find any of the opinion news shows saying a kind word about anything with provenance in the world of the conservatives. Though it must be noted that today's conservatives are not your father’s conservatives and perhaps need a new descriptive category of their own, a category that acknowledges a willingness to lie about anything and to act on those lies as if they were truth. Though with less fervor, the MSNBC presenters hew tightly to liberal progressive themes and spend much energy belittling far right conservative initiatives , positions, and leaders, while avoiding in depth reporting of the impact of leftist destructive demonstrations or the costs of progressive agendas.

The PBS NewsHour offers a more moderate and rational approach to the news than either of the extremist outlets of the right or left. Tune in and you will see and hear unbiased TV News reporters asking questions and reporting news about the important events of the day. You will not hear them say that false flag Antifa protesters led the insurrection at the Capitol, or that Republican Senators committed treason when they attempted to throw out electoral votes unfavorable to their preferred candidate. Instead you will hear them interviewing people with first hand information about events and letting the viewers make up their own minds about the import of the answers.

You will also hear about some good things going on in the world, interviews with creative artists and performers, and initiatives to improve the lives of the needy. You will also get reliable updates about the pandemic, its deadly toll on the elderly and minorities, and experts recommendations on how to address the medical, psychological, and economic impacts of the plague, both here and around the world.

And once a week, on Fridays, regular commentators, David Brooks, a Republican from the New York Times, and Jonathan Capehart, a Democrat from the Washington Post address questions posited by the NewsHour host, Judy Woodruff, about major events that occurred during the week. Capehart is a recent addition to the show, having replaced Mark Shields who recently retired from the broadcast. Neither correspondent represents the outer fringes of their parties. They are both first and foremost professional journalists who can comment with extensive knowledge of the players and the inner workings of the parties to which they belong.

The PBS NewsHour is a professional, unbiased, rational alternative to those stations that have abandoned News Reporting in favor of grossly biased News Opinions. Look and listen. There is a lot of fake news out there, but not on the PBS NewsHour.