Ricardo Sandoval Palos

A stream of viewer emails and voicemails question the neutrality of PBS journalists. Is it the reporters, or the viewers, who are speaking through biased filters? On the Oct. 8 broadcast of the PBS NewsHour, the nation’s infectious disease czar Dr. Anthony Fauci answered questions about a White House event where few people wore masks and guests squeezed into rows of folding chairs to honor President Donald J. Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

PBS NewsHour stands up to presidential diatribes and viewer complaints On March 29th, in this Year of the Pandemic, the nation had ground to a halt. We were heeding orders and pleas to stay home and collectively disrupt deadly waves of COVID-19 infection. With the crisis deepening, President Donald Trump was on television, live, launching verbal salvos at the media.

As news deserts spread, local public broadcasters look to fill the void Today there is little in the way of local news reporting in the land of Paul Bunyon — the headwaters of the Mississippi River in north-central Minnesota. A couple of community newspapers have modest circulations. Signals of five small commercial and public radio stations are listed as offering news and public affairs to a widespread population of roughly 100,000 around rural Lake Bemidji.