Clay Waters is a Specialty Blogger at NewsBusters, where he monitors bias on PBS and National Public Radio. His work encompasses a wide range of topics including government, politics, media, and culture, reflecting his long-standing commitment to scrutinizing the intersection of journalism and public policy. Clay's insights and analyses have been featured in notable outlets such as The Federalist, RealClearInvestigations, and The American Spectator.
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By: Clay Waters
This week's Washington Week with The Atlantic hailed from Austin, Texas, the liberal heart of the state, before a live studio audience with presumably Democratic sympathies (much like the show's television audience). : The positive prospects of the state's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Texas State Rep. James Talarico, neck and neck in polls with the Republican candidate, Attorney General Ken Paxton.
There were No Labels in National Public Radio's coverage of the “No Kings” rallies held on Saturday around the country: “ No Kings draws crowds with focus on early voting ,” by Ava Berger was posted to NPR Saturday, with text interspersed with many apparently fun (and perhaps filtered?) photos of the wacky anti-Trump hijinks, with no Communist flags or radical signs to be seen.
By: Clay Waters
From the “can’t take it but can sure dish it out” department comes the New York Times, which somehow felt a satirical article by a famously corrosive liberal comedian that gently mocked the hard-left Democratic Socialists of America merited a critical pile-on.
By: Clay Waters
As the midterms loom less than two weeks away, PBS News Hour co-host Geoff Bennett set the table Tuesday night with discussion about yet another “surprisingly close race” in a Red state, the moderate Republican stronghold of Kansas. Reporter William Brangham discussed the Senate race with Jared Cerullo of affiliate station PBS Kansas. The hot topic: Trump using the term "Shylock," for the Jewish money-lender character in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.
By: Clay Waters
October 24th, 2026 8:52 PM Text to Speech Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust at The New York Times , had
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By: Clay Waters
Is PBS's Sarah Varney a “health care” correspondent, or abortion correspondent? She's obsessively covered the state abortion-ban beat since Roe v. Wade was overturned, from Arkansas to Texas gathering sad stories on abortion denials.
By: Clay Waters
October 26th, 2026 10:30 AM Text to Speech The New York Times story about the wunderkind Democratic candidate for Alaska governor
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In Saturday's edition of the Austin-based PBS talk show Overheard With Evan Smith , Smith and his guest, NYU law professor and author Melissa Murray, fretted about the state of the Constitution in the face of supposed threats posed by the Trump Administration, revealing their contempt for the Supreme Court in the process.
By: Clay Waters
On Tuesday evening , a week before Election Day, PBS News Hour reporter Stephanie Sy used one of left-wing MSNBC's favored religion experts to discourage conservatives from embracing Donald Trump and by extension, Republicans up for election to Congress.
