108-405: David Brooks may refer to: Writers [ edit ] David Brooks (commentator) (born 1961), commentator for The New York Times and other publications David Brooks (author) (born 1953), Australian author of short stories and co-editor of Southerly David H. M. Brooks (1950–1996), South African philosopher and professor of philosophy at
216-482: A Peabody Award , presented at the 2019 awards ceremony. On October 14, 2019, PBS NewsHour launched " PBS NewsHour West", a Western United States bureau at Arizona State University 's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix . Anchored by Stephanie Sy, the bureau produces its own news summary with up-to-date information on events that develop after the original broadcast. A version of
324-558: A letterboxed format for viewers with standard-definition television sets watching via either cable or satellite television . The program also introduced a new set and converted its graphics package to HD. On May 11, 2009, PBS announced that the program would be revamped on December 7 of that year under a revised title, the PBS NewsHour . In addition to increased integration between the NewsHour website and nightly broadcast,
432-566: A paean to consumerism, argued that the new managerial or "new upper class" represents a marriage between the liberal idealism of the 1960s and the self-interest of the 1980s. According to a 2010 article in New York Magazine written by Christopher Beam, New York Times editorial-page editor Gail Collins called Brooks in 2003 and invited him to lunch. Collins was looking for a conservative to replace outgoing columnist William Safire , but one who understood how liberals think. "I
540-705: A "cancer" on the Republican Party, and citing her as the reason he voted for Obama in the 2008 presidential election . He has referred to Palin as a "joke," unlikely ever to win the Republican nomination. But he later admitted during a C-SPAN interview that he had gone too far in his previous "cancer" comments about Palin, which he regretted, and simply stated he was not a fan of her values. Brooks has frequently expressed admiration for President Barack Obama . In an August 2009, profile of Brooks, The New Republic describes his first encounter with Obama, in
648-462: A "fable" the idea that "intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction was all cooked by political pressure, that there was a big political conspiracy to lie us into war." Instead, Brooks viewed the war as a product of faulty intelligence, writing that "[t]he Iraq war error reminds us of the need for epistemological modesty." Brooks was long a supporter of John McCain ; however, he disliked McCain's 2008 running mate , Sarah Palin , calling her
756-877: A "primary" member outlet. These include the NJ PBS network in New Jersey (as WNET, which co-manages NJ PBS and WLIW , carries the program in the New York City area, the latter airing the program live, while WHYY-TV does so in the Philadelphia market); KVCR-DT in San Bernardino, California ; KCET in Los Angeles ( KOCE-TV in Huntington Beach , which shares ownership with KCET through parent Public Media Group of Southern California and
864-596: A 67% controlling equity stake in MacNeil/Lehrer Productions in 1994, but MacNeil and Lehrer retained editorial control. In 2014, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions , owned by MacNeil, Lehrer, and Liberty Media announced its donation, as NewsHour Productions LLC , to WETA-TV as a nonprofit subsidiary. In 1973, Robert MacNeil (a former NBC News correspondent and then-moderator of PBS's Washington Week in Review ) and Jim Lehrer teamed up to cover
972-478: A C-SPAN interview, Brooks expressed a more tempered opinion of Obama's presidency, giving Obama only a "B−" and saying that Obama's chances of re-election would be less than 50–50 if elections were held at that time. He stated, "I don't think he's integrated himself with people in Washington as much as he should have." However, in a February 2016 New York Times op-ed, Brooks admitted that he missed Obama during
1080-543: A New York-based correspondent for the weekday broadcasts and serves as a contributor for the PBS late-night news program Amanpour & Company ) was replaced as weekend anchor by former NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Geoff Bennett. Then on December 8, 2022, PBS NewsHour announced that John Yang will become an anchor in the weekend editions on December 31, 2022 (New Year's Eve). On May 13, 2022, Woodruff announced to NewsHour staffers that she would step down as anchor at
1188-500: A conservatizing influence on him. In 1984, mindful of the offer he had received from Buckley, Brooks applied and was accepted as an intern at Buckley's National Review . According to Christopher Beam, the internship included an all-access pass to the affluent lifestyle that Brooks had previously mocked, including yachting expeditions, Bach concerts, dinners at Buckley's Park Avenue apartment and villa in Stamford, Connecticut , and
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#17328024551631296-538: A constant stream of writers, politicians, and celebrities. Brooks was an outsider in more ways than his relative inexperience. National Review was a Catholic magazine, and Brooks is not Catholic. Sam Tanenhaus later reported in The New Republic that Buckley might have eventually named Brooks his successor if it hadn't been for his being Jewish. "If true, it would be upsetting," Brooks says. After his internship with Buckley ended, Brooks spent some time at
1404-411: A digital-only half-hour weekly summary series of News Hour stories from the week, initially hosted by Nick Schifrin and broadcast on Fridays. On June 10, 2024, PBS News Hour introduced a new logo and the new studio (still at WETA), now featuring the current PBS logo, and the logo and program's text and graphics rendered in the system's proprietary PBS Sans typeface family introduced in 2019. At
1512-413: A humiliating incident: Brooks smoked marijuana during lunch hour at school and felt embarrassed during a class presentation that afternoon in which he says he was incapable of intelligible speech. In reviewing On Paradise Drive (2004), Michael Kinsley described Brooks' "sociological method" as having "four components: fearless generalizing, clever coinage, jokes and shopping lists." Taking umbrage with
1620-561: A job and have a peculiar way of asking. So how about it, Billy? Can you spare a dime?" When Buckley arrived to give his talk, he asked whether Brooks was in the lecture audience and offered him a job. Upon graduation, Brooks became a police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago , a wire service owned jointly by the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times . He says that his experience on Chicago's crime beat had
1728-835: A moderate McCain - Lieberman Party in opposition to both major parties , which he perceived as both polarized and beholden to special interests . In a March 2007 article published in The New York Times titled "No U-Turns", Brooks explained that the Republican Party must distance itself from the minimal-government conservative principles that had arisen during the Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan eras. He claims that these core concepts had served their purposes and should no longer be embraced by Republicans in order to win elections. Alex Pareene commented that Brooks "has been trying for so long to imagine
1836-418: A moderate, a centrist, a conservative, and a moderate conservative. Brooks has described himself as "a Burkean ... [which] is to be a moderate", saying that such was "what I think I’ve become. and said in a 2017 interview that "[one] of [his] callings is to represent a certain moderate Republican Whig political philosophy." In December 2021, he wrote that he placed himself "on the rightward edge of
1944-441: A regular anchor of the program on June 6, 2011. He continued to occasionally anchor on Fridays, when he usually led the political analysis segment with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and The New York Times columnist David Brooks , until December 30, 2011. PBS NewsHour continues with various anchors until September 6, 2013. On August 6, 2013, Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff were named co-anchors and co-managing editors of
2052-598: A reorchestration of the nine-note "Question and Answer" musical signature that has been featured in the program's theme since its premiere in 1975 and a musical signature originally incorporated into the Kalehoff-composed theme for the Nightly Business Report used from 2002 to 2010. PBS NewsHour Weekend retained its original graphics package and the theme music by David Cebert and Bernard Hoffer until August 29, 2015, when it transitioned to
2160-501: A sensible Republican Party into existence that he can't still think it's going to happen soon." Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq , Brooks argued for American military intervention, echoing the belief of commentators and political figures that American and British forces would be welcomed as liberators. In 2005, Brooks wrote what columnist Jonathan Chait described as "a witheringly condescending" column portraying Senator Harry Reid as an "unhinged conspiracy theorist because he accused
2268-595: A similar segment, "Politics Monday", features analysis and discussion of political issues with contributors Amy Walter , national editor of The Cook Political Report , and Tamara Keith , Washington, D.C. correspondent for NPR . The program's senior correspondents are Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown (Arts, Culture & Society). Essayists have included Anne Taylor Fleming, Richard Rodriguez , Clarence Page and Roger Rosenblatt . Correspondents have been Tom Bearden, Betty Ann Bowser , Susan Dentzer , Elizabeth Farnsworth , Kwame Holman , Spencer Michels, Fred de Sam Lazaro,
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#17328024551632376-412: A spoof of the lifestyle of wealthy conservative William F. Buckley Jr. , who was scheduled to speak at the university: "In the afternoons he is in the habit of going into crowded rooms and making everybody else feel inferior. The evenings are reserved for extended bouts of name-dropping." To his piece, Brooks appended the note: "Some would say I'm envious of Mr. Buckley. But if truth be known, I just want
2484-521: A study alleging liberal media bias in general. Based on their research, PBS News Hour is the most centrist news program on television and the closest to a truly objective stance. However, their methodology has been questioned. In October 2006, the media criticism group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) accused the PBS News Hour of lacking balance, diversity, and viewpoints of
2592-559: A very good president." Brooks appreciates that Obama thinks "like a writer," explaining, "He's a very writerly personality, a little aloof, exasperated. He's calm. He's not addicted to people." Two days after Obama's second autobiography, The Audacity of Hope , hit bookstores, Brooks published a column in The New York Times , titled "Run, Barack, Run," urging the Chicago politician to run for president. However, in December 2011, during
2700-819: A young child, Brooks attended the Grace Church School , an independent Episcopal primary school in the East Village. When he was 12, his family moved to the Philadelphia Main Line , the affluent suburbs of Philadelphia. He graduated from Radnor High School in 1979. In 1983, Brooks graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in history. His senior thesis was on popular science writer Robert Ardrey . As an undergraduate, Brooks frequently contributed reviews and satirical pieces to campus publications. His senior year, he wrote
2808-568: Is also streamed on the YouTube channel live Saturdays and Sundays at 5:00 p.m. ET. Full episodes are available later on the PBS News YouTube channel and on the program's dedicated page on PBS's website. The News Hour was also livestreamed on Ustream until IBM Watson Media discontinued free livesteraming on the platform on September 17, 2018. The News Hour has also provided livestreaming of special events, most notably streaming
2916-463: Is badly frayed by distrust, division and exclusion." Brooks also takes a moderate position on abortion , which he thinks should be legal, but with parental consent for minors, during the first four or five months, and illegal afterward, except in extremely rare circumstances. He has expressed opposition to the legalization of marijuana , stating that use of the drug causes immoral behavior. Brooks relates that he smoked it in his youth but quit after
3024-666: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages David Brooks (commentator) David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a Canadian-born American book author and political and cultural commentator. Self-described as an ideologic moderate, others have characterised his regular contributions to the PBS NewsHour , as opinion columnist for The New York Times and other work as being centrist, conservative, or moderate conservative. In addition to his shorter form writing, Brooks has authored 6 non-fiction books since 2000, two appearing from Simon and Schuster , and four from Random House ,
3132-597: Is the primary PBS member in the region, serves as the program's carrier in the Los Angeles market); and WYIN in Gary, Indiana ( WTTW , the primary PBS station for the Chicago DMA that includes WYIN's Northwest Indiana service area, serves as the program's carrier in the Chicago market). In Boston, WGBH-TV airs the program live each weeknight (with a simulcast online), while its secondary station WGBX rebroadcasts
3240-446: Is usually followed by three or four longer news segments, typically running six to twelve minutes, which explore a few of the events mentioned in the headline segment in depth and include discussions with experts, newsmakers, and/or commentators. The program formerly included a reflective essay on a regular basis, but these have been curtailed in recent years; since Woodruff and Ifill became anchors, these essays have mainly aired as part of
3348-710: The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are making history on PBS." David Leonard and Micah Schwalb of The Denver Post wrote, "One of the most trusted news programs on television." Phil Owen of TheWrap wrote, "The least partisan analysis." Tim Surette of TV Guide wrote, "The calm and credible information we need." Jennifer Gerson of The 19th wrote, "Nawaz is stepping into history." In 2003, UCLA political scientist Tim Groseclose and Missouri economist Jeff Milyo evaluated various media programs based on " think tank " citations to map liberal versus conservative media slants and published
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3456-453: The Israeli army in 2014, as Brooks shared in a September 2014 interview for Israeli newspaper Haaretz . Brooks converted to Christianity over a period between 2013 and 2014. Brooks married Anne Snyder in 2017; they met while he wrote The Road to Character and she was his research assistant . PBS NewsHour PBS News Hour , previously stylized as PBS NewsHour , is
3564-598: The Middle Ages ... have been living off their wits ever since". In Brooks' view, "Israel's technological success is the fruition of the Zionist dream. The country was not founded so stray settlers could sit among thousands of angry Palestinians in Hebron . It was founded so Jews would have a safe place to come together and create things for the world." Brooks opposes what he sees as self-destructive behavior, such as
3672-598: The NewsHour . They shared anchor duties on the Monday through Thursday editions, with Woodruff anchoring solo on Fridays due to Ifill's duties as host of the political discussion program Washington Week , which was also produced Friday evenings. For much of its history, the PBS NewsHour aired only Monday through Friday, but in March 2013, plans to expand the program to include Saturday and Sunday editions were under development. On June 17, 2023, PBS NewsHour announced that
3780-500: The PBS News Hour ' s subscriptions page with link to a FeedBurner website (for free mp3 download) and through podcast services such as Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Spotify , and among others. The PBS News Hour is streamed live on the program's YouTube channel at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time each weeknight, with the Western edition also streaming live at 9:00 p.m. ET (6:00 p.m. Pacific Time). PBS News Weekend
3888-526: The PBS News Hour are also made available worldwide via satellites operated by various agencies such as the Voice of America . A limited number of PBS member stations and regional member networks do not clear the PBS News Hour on their schedules due to existing carriage on a "primary" PBS member station, a pool mainly confined to "secondary" stations (most of which participate in the service's Program Differentiation Plan) that share certain media markets with
3996-478: The PBS NewsHour was dedicated to Ifill and her influence on journalism, featuring tributes from Woodruff, Sreenivasan, former colleagues and program contributors (news content was relegated to the standard news summary, which aired during the second half-hour). Although the program initially featured guest anchors on some editions between January and March 2017, Woodruff went on to become sole anchor. In 2018, The Plastic Problem aired, which then went on to win
4104-468: The Republican candidate or the belief that tax cuts are the correct answer to all problems, I guess I don't fit that agenda. But I do think that I'm part of a long-standing conservative tradition that has to do with Edmund Burke ... and Alexander Hamilton ." In fact, Brooks read Burke's work while he was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and "completely despised it", but "gradually over
4212-491: The United States Senate 's Watergate hearings for PBS. They earned an Emmy Award for their unprecedented gavel-to-gavel coverage. This recognition led to the creation of The Robert MacNeil Report , a half-hour local news program on WNET, which debuted on October 20, 1975; each episode of the program covered a single issue in depth. On December 1, 1975, the program began to air on PBS stations nationwide. It
4320-416: The [George W. Bush] administration of falsifying its Iraq intelligence ." By 2008, five years into the war, Brooks maintained that the decision to go to war was correct, but that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had botched U.S. war efforts. In 2015, Brooks wrote that "[f]rom the current vantage point, the decision to go to war was a clear misjudgment" made in 2003 by President George W. Bush and
4428-422: The 2016 primary season, admiring the president's "integrity" and "humanity," among other characteristics. In regard to the 2016 election, Brooks spoke in support of Hillary Clinton , applauding her ability to be "competent" and "normal" in comparison to her Republican counterpart, Donald Trump . In addition, Brooks noted that he believed Clinton would eventually be victorious in the election, as he foresaw that
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4536-630: The August 9, 2019 episode of the PBS NewsHour , Brooks suggested Trump may be a sociopath . Brooks has expressed admiration for Israel and has visited almost every year since 1991. He supported Israel during the 2014 Gaza War . In writing for The New York Times in January 2010, Brooks described Israel as "an astonishing success story". He wrote that "Jews are a famously accomplished group," who, because they were "forced to give up farming in
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4752-996: The Fifth United States Congress David Brooks, 5th Baron Crawshaw (born 1934), British peer and politician David Brooks (Northern Irish politician) , MLA from Belfast East Sir David Brooks (lord mayor) (1864–1930), Lord Mayor of Birmingham Sports [ edit ] David Brooks (rugby league) (born 1962), Australian rugby league footballer David Brooks (ice hockey) (born 1939), American ice hockey player David Brooks (rugby union) (1924–2002), British rugby union footballer David Brooks (footballer) (born 1997), Wales international footballer Other [ edit ] David Owen Brooks (1955–2020), teenage accomplice of serial killer Dean Corll D. W. Brooks (David William Brooks, 1901–1999), American farmer and businessman David Brooks (inventor) , inventor who patented an insulator for telegraph lines in 1867 while working for
4860-589: The January 2017 inauguration of Donald Trump on the program's Twitter account. On December 4, 2009, when introducing the new PBS NewsHour format, Lehrer read a list of guidelines for what he called "MacNeil/Lehrer journalism": In 1992, radio broadcaster David Barsamian called the NewsHour "stenographers to power", accusing them and other news media of having a pro-establishment bias. PBS News Hour has received generally positive reviews from television critics and parents of young children. Patrick Kevin Day of
4968-560: The Middle East; South Africa; and European affairs. On his return, Brooks joined the neo-conservative Weekly Standard when it was launched in 1994. Two years later, he edited an anthology, Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing. In 2000, Brooks published a book of cultural commentary titled Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There to considerable acclaim. The book,
5076-583: The Tisch/WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in Manhattan , as opposed to the program's main production facilities at the Arlington, Virginia, studios of WETA-TV. MacNeil/Lehrer Productions announced in a letter to the show's staffers on October 8, 2013, that it had offered to transfer ownership in the PBS NewsHour to WETA. In the letter, Lehrer and MacNeil cited their reduced involvement with
5184-537: The University of Cape Town Arts [ edit ] Mavado (singer) (David Constantine Brooks, born 1981), Jamaican dancehall artist David Brooks, director of the 2012 film ATM Bubba Brooks (David Kenneth Brooks, Jr., 1922–2002), American jazz musician David Brooks (actor) (1915–1999), American actor and stage director and producer Politics [ edit ] David Brooks (American politician) (1756–1838), United States representative in
5292-609: The Western Edition on television at 6:00 p.m. PT. Unusually for many years, the secondary station of Milwaukee PBS , WMVT , carried the program as part of an early-evening news block with the Nightly Business Report (which was the lead-in to News Hour on many member stations until that program ceased production in December 2019), and half-hour international newscasts from Deutsche Welle and BBC World News , due to an expanded schedule of PBS Kids and local-interest programming on WMVS; this has since been rectified with
5400-589: The actual significance of what the Supreme Court has done", he goes on to state that "[t]here is a link, but it is only indirect, between the Court’s 2010 decision... and the rise of Super PACs" [emphasis added]. Writing in response to Brooks 2015 opinion in The New York Times , "The New Old Liberalism", Tom Scoca of the now-defunct Gawker , after leveling the ad hominem attack that Brooks
5508-410: The beginning and end of each broadcast, as well as barker interruptions asking viewers to donate to their local PBS member station or member network during locally produced pledge drives , which are replaced by encore presentations of a selected story segment from the past year for stations that are not holding a drive during that time). The program has a more deliberate pace than the news broadcasts of
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#17328024551635616-444: The beginning with dates. On May 17, 2006, the program underwent its first major change in presentation in years, adopting a new graphics package and a reorchestrated version of its theme music (originally composed by Bernard Hoffer ). On December 17, 2007, the NewsHour became the second nightly broadcast network newscast to begin broadcasting in high definition (after NBC Nightly News on March 26, 2007), with broadcasts in
5724-485: The book was not intended to be factual but rather to report impressions of what he believed an area to be like: "He laughed" that the book was "'partially tongue-in-cheek'". Issenberg continues, "I went through some of the other instances where he made declarations that appeared insupportable. He accused me of being 'too pedantic,' of 'taking all of this too literally,' of 'taking a joke and distorting it.' 'That's totally unethical', he said." In 2015, David Zweig expressed
5832-427: The commercial networks it competes against, allowing for deeper detail in its story packages and feature segments. At the start of the program, the lead story is covered in depth, followed by a news summary that lasts roughly between six and eight minutes, briefly explaining many of the top national and international news headlines; international stories often include excerpts of reports filed by ITN correspondents. This
5940-502: The company's name. PBS NewsHour Weekend was not affected by the ownership transfer and continued to be produced by WNET. On July 20, 2015, the PBS NewsHour introduced an overhauled visual appearance for its weekday broadcasts, debuting a new minimalist set designed by Eric Siegel and George Allison that heavily incorporates PBS's longtime "Everyman" logo. The program also introduced a new graphics package by Troika Design Group and original theme music by Edd Kalehoff , which incorporates
6048-438: The conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University and wrote movie reviews for The Washington Times . In 1986, Brooks was hired by The Wall Street Journal , where he worked first as an editor of the book review section. He also filled in for five months as a movie critic. From 1990 to 1994, the newspaper posted Brooks as an op-ed columnist to Brussels , where he covered Russia (making numerous trips to Moscow );
6156-416: The creation of its official website at PBS Online. The NewsHour won a Peabody Award in 2003 for the feature report Jobless Recovery: Non-Working Numbers . On May 17, 1999, The NewsHour adopted a new graphics package with refreshed music from 1983, plus the new studio with a blue globe in the middle. On October 4, 1999, Gwen Ifill and Ray Suarez joined The NewsHour team as new correspondents. Ifill
6264-496: The economics correspondent Paul Solman ( Making Sen$ e ), Malcolm Brabant and others. Lehrer and Ifill were frequent moderators of U.S. political debates. By November 2008, Lehrer had moderated more than ten debates between major U.S. presidential candidates. In 2008, Ifill moderated a debate between U.S. vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin ; in 2004, she moderated a debate between candidates Dick Cheney and John Edwards . According to Nielsen ratings at
6372-481: The end of the year, though she intends to continue reporting longer pieces for the program while doing projects and specials for WETA through the 2024 United States presidential election at the earliest. Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett were named Woodruff's successors. Woodruff made her final broadcast as anchor on December 30, 2022. Nawaz and Bennett anchored their first broadcast as co-anchors on January 2, 2023. On December 15, 2023, PBS premiered PBS News Weekly ,
6480-653: The end-of-show segment "Brief, but Spectacular". On Fridays, the program features political analysis and discussion between two regular contributors, one from each of the Republican and Democratic parties, and one host from among the senior correspondents. Since January 2021, the usual participants have been Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart and The New York Times columnist David Brooks . Analysts who fill in when Capehart or Brooks are absent have included David Gergen , Thomas Oliphant , Rich Lowry , William Kristol , Ramesh Ponnuru , Ruth Marcus , Michael Gerson , David Corn and E. J. Dionne . On Mondays,
6588-414: The exact origin of ideas problematic, Brad DeLong argues that Brooks and other's names "are attached to a pejorative which they’d prefer to be uncoupled from the anti-Semitism to which it has been usually attached", but that the offending expression is a toxic one that, as one "enter[ing] national discourse as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory... ought to be avoided on that basis alone...". In 2023, Brooks
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#17328024551636696-593: The fall of 2006. In 2013, he taught a course at Yale University on philosophical humility. In 2012, Brooks was elected to the University of Chicago Board of Trustees. He also serves on the board of advisors for the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. In 2019, Brooks gave a TED talk in Vancouver entitled 'The Lies Our Culture Tells Us About What Matters – And a Better Way to Live'. TED curator Chris Anderson selected it as one of his favourite talks of 2019. Ideologically, Brooks has been described as
6804-558: The first of these, Kinsley state, "Brooks does not let the sociology get in the way of the shtick, and he wields a mean shoehorn when he needs the theory to fit the joke". This followed the 2004 Philadelphia magazine fact-checking of Bobos in Paradise by Sasha Issenberg that concluded many of its comments about middle America were misleading or untrue. Kinsley reported that "Brooks defend[ed] his generalizations as poetic hyperbole". Issenberg likewise noted that Brooks insisted that
6912-684: The frankness of the left and the wholesomeness of the right." As a result, he was optimistic about the United States' social stability, which he considered to be "in the middle of an amazing moment of improvement and repair". As early as 2003, Brooks wrote favorably of same-sex marriage , pointing out that marriage is a traditional conservative value. Rather than opposing it, he wrote: "We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity ... It's going to be up to conservatives to make
7020-402: The general American public would become "sick of" Trump. When discussing the political emergence of Trump, Brooks strongly critiqued the candidate, most notably by authoring a New York Times op-ed he titled "No, Not Trump, Not Ever." In this piece, Brooks attacked Trump by arguing he is "epically unprepared to be president" and by pointing out Trump's "steady obliviousness to accuracy." On
7128-576: The general public, and for presenting corporate viewpoints. FAIR found that the PBS News Hour ' s guest list from October 2005 to March 2006 had Republicans outnumbering Democrats 2–1, and minorities accounting for 15 percent of U.S.-based sources. FAIR also protested in 1995 when Liberty Media purchased a majority of the program, citing Liberty's majority owner, John Malone , for his "Machiavellian business tactics" and right-wing sentiments. News Hour executive producer Linda Winslow responded to many aspects: FAIR seems to be accusing us of covering
7236-463: The impediments to upward mobility are "matters of social psychology ". When discussing Gray in particular, Brooks claimed that Gray as a young man was "not on the path to upward mobility". In 2020, Brooks wrote in The Atlantic , under the headline "The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake", that "recent signs suggest at least the possibility that a new family paradigm is emerging," suggesting that in
7344-401: The important, moral case for marriage, including gay marriage." In 2015, Brooks issued his commentary on poverty reform in the United States. His op-ed in The New York Times titled "The Nature of Poverty" specifically followed the social uproar caused by the death of Freddie Gray , and concluded that federal spending is not the issue impeding the progress of poverty reforms, but rather that
7452-651: The latter including The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement (2011), and The Road to Character (2015). Beginning as a police reporter in Chicago and as an intern at William F. Buckley 's National Review , Brooks rose to his positions at The Times , NPR , and PBS after a long series of other journalistic positions (film critic for The Washington Times , reporter and op-ed editor at The Wall Street Journal , senior editor at The Weekly Standard , and contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly ). Brooks
7560-481: The launch of the all-hours PBS Kids subchannel network. Archives of shows broadcast after February 7, 2000, are available in several streaming media formats (including full-motion video) at the program's website. The show is available to overseas military personnel on the American Forces Network . Audio from selected segments is also released in podcast form, available through several feeds on
7668-498: The leftward tendency—in the more promising soil of the moderate wing of the Democratic Party." Ottawa Citizen conservative commentator David Warren has identified Brooks as a "sophisticated pundit"; one of "those Republicans who want to 'engage with' the liberal agenda". When asked what he thinks of charges that he's "not a real conservative" or "squishy", Brooks has said that "if you define conservative by support for
7776-595: The majority of Americans who supported the war, including Brooks himself. Brooks wrote "many of us thought that, by taking down Saddam Hussein , we could end another evil empire, and gradually open up human development in Iraq and the Arab world. Has that happened? In 2004, I would have said yes. In 2006, I would have said no. In 2015, I say yes and no, but mostly no." Citing the Robb-Silberman report , Brooks rejected as
7884-840: The news division of PBS and an American daily evening television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS member stations since October 20, 1975. It airs seven nights a week, and is known for its in-depth coverage of issues and current events. Since January 2, 2023, the one-hour weekday editions have been anchored by Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett . The 30-minute weekend editions that premiered on September 7, 2013, branded as PBS News Weekend , have been anchored by John Yang since December 31, 2022. The broadcasts are produced by PBS member station WETA-TV in Washington, D.C. , and originates from its studio facilities in Arlington County, Virginia . Since 2019, news updates inserted into
7992-404: The next five to seven years ... came to agree with him". Brooks claims that "my visceral hatred was because he touched something I didn't like or know about myself." In September 2012, Brooks talked about being criticized from the conservative side, saying, "If it's from a loon, I don't mind it. I get a kick out of it. If it's Michelle Malkin attacking, I don't mind it." With respect to whether he
8100-462: The nightly news programs on ABC , CBS and NBC instead of complementing them, the program expanded to one hour on September 5, 1983, incorporating other changes, such as the introduction of "documentary reportage from the field"; it became known at that time as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour . Lester Crystal was its founding executive producer. MacNeil/Lehrer Productions twice planned to launch late-night newscasts in 1995 and 1999; in both instances,
8208-490: The opinion in a Salon piece that Brooks had gotten "nearly every detail" wrong about a poll of high-school students in his recent, The Road to Character . In March of 2012, Dan Abrams of ABC News , and then Brooks, were criticized by Lyle Denniston with regard to the U.S. Supreme Court 's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission , where alongside the claim that Brooks had "scrambled
8316-692: The people who make decisions that affect people's lives, many of whom work in government, the military, or corporate America. That's what we do: we're a news program, and that's who makes news... I take issue with the way the FAIR report characterizes each guest, which they have obviously done very subjectively. Witness the trashing of Mark Shields and Tom Oliphant (in the full report), who are not liberal enough for FAIR's taste. When you get down to arguing about degrees of left-and-rightness, I think you undermine your own argument. She also accused FAIR of counting sound bites as interviews, thereby skewing their numbers toward
8424-407: The piece, Brooks "distorts rather grotesquely" by exaggerating the character of Texas solicitor general Ted Cruz (who brought the case to the high court). In 2018, Brooks wrote an opinion for The New York Times on the generation gap between older and younger Democrats, attributing young Democrats' radicalism to " cultural Marxism ... now the lingua franca in the elite academy", for which he
8532-405: The place of the "collapsed" nuclear one the "extended" family emerges, with "multigenerational living arrangements" that stretch even "across kinship lines." Brooks had already started in 2017 a project called "Weave", in order, as he described it, to "support and draw attention to people and organizations around the country who are building community" and to "repair [America]'s social fabric, which
8640-418: The prevalence of teenage sex and divorce . His view is that "sex is more explicit everywhere barring real life. As the entertainment media have become more sex-saturated, American teenagers have become more sexually abstemious " by "waiting longer to have sex ... [and] having fewer partners". In 2007, Brooks stated that he sees the culture war as nearly over, because "today's young people ... seem happy with
8748-609: The program with this summary is shown to viewers in the Western United States and to online and East Coast viewers watching re-broadcasts. On April 2, 2022, WETA assumed production responsibilities for the NewsHour ' s Saturday and Sunday editions, which concurrently began originating from the studio at the station's Washington facility used for the weekday broadcasts. The broadcasts were retitled PBS News Weekend , omitting "NewsHour " in view of their shorter duration. NewsHour Productions transferred production of
8856-499: The program's website , 2.7 million people watch the program each night, and 8 million watch in the course of a week. On March 31, 2003, after the U.S.–led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the PBS News Hour began what it called its "Honor Roll", a short segment displaying in silence the picture, name, rank, and hometown of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq. On January 4, 2006, military personnel killed in Afghanistan were added to
8964-440: The program's production since their departures from anchoring, as well as "the probability of increasing our fundraising abilities." WETA's board of trustees approved the transfer on June 17, 2014, and it took effect on July 1. At that time, NewsHour Productions, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of WETA, took over production of the program. WETA also acquired MacNeil/Lehrer Productions' archives, documentaries, and projects, though not
9072-512: The proposed expansions—which, respectively, were to have involved production and newsgathering partnerships with Wall Street Journal Television and The New York Times —were canceled mid-development. MacNeil retired from the program on October 20, 1995, leaving Lehrer as the sole anchor. Accordingly, the program was renamed The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on October 23. (Hunter-Gault left in June 1997.) On January 16, 1996, The NewsHour announced
9180-454: The same article, claiming Brooks took arguments out of context and routinely made bold "half-right" assumptions regarding the controversial issue of poverty reform. In 2016, Brooks' analyzed the U.S. Supreme Court 's Dretke v. Haley case, leading James Taranto to the critique that "Brooks's treatment of this case is either deliberately deceptive or recklessly ignorant". In a self-published blog, law professor Ann Althouse argues that in
9288-514: The same theme music and a reworked version of the graphics package used for the weekday broadcasts. Ifill took brief breaks from her NewsHour anchor duties in the late spring and in November 2016 (and was also absent from the program's presidential election coverage on November 8), as she had been undergoing treatment for advanced stage breast and endometrial cancer . After her death was announced on November 14, 2016, that evening's edition of
9396-437: The same time, the program's longstanding use of camel case in its name was discontinued, with "NewsHour" becoming two words by one space, "News Hour", in conjunction with the network's rebranding of the news operation as PBS News. The program is notable for being shown on public television . There are no interruptions for advertisements (though like most public television programs, there are "corporate image" advertisements at
9504-472: The segment. PBS NewsHour aired the final honor roll segment on August 30, 2021, after the end of War in Afghanistan . The PBS News Hour is broadcast on more than 350 PBS member stations and member networks, making it available to 99% of the viewing public, and audio from the program is broadcast by some NPR radio stations. It is also rebroadcast twice daily in late night via American Public Television 's World digital subchannel service. Broadcasts of
9612-414: The spring of 2005: "Usually when I talk to senators, while they may know a policy area better than me, they generally don't know political philosophy better than me. I got the sense he knew both better than me...I remember distinctly an image of – we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant, and I'm thinking, (a) he's going to be president and (b) he'll be
9720-478: The updated production returned to a two-anchor format. Lehrer described the overhaul as the first phase in his move toward retirement. On September 27, 2010, PBS NewsHour was presented with the Chairman's Award at the 31st News & Documentary Emmy Awards , with MacNeil, Lehrer, Crystal, and former executive producer Linda Winslow receiving the award on the show's behalf. Lehrer formally ended his tenure as
9828-979: The weekday broadcasts targeted for viewers in the Western United States , online, and late at night have been anchored by Stephanie Sy , originating from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University . Additional production facilities for the program are based in San Francisco and Denver . The program is a collaboration between WETA-TV and PBS member station WNET in New York City , along with KQED in San Francisco , KETC in St. Louis , and WTTW in Chicago . The program debuted in 1975 as The Robert MacNeil Report before being renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report one year later. It
9936-562: The weekday editions later the same evening, and the weekend editions live; a similar case exists in New York City but in reverse, where WLIW airs the weekday and weekend editions of the PBS News Hour live while WNET airs them on a tape delay (delayed by one hour on weekday editions and by a half-hour on weekends). KQED in San Francisco airs the program each weeknight in simulcast with its radio sister at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time (6:00 p.m. Eastern Time ), in addition to airing
10044-424: The weekend broadcasts from WNET in a move to streamline the program's production and news-gathering resources, allowing the weekday and weekend NewsHour broadcasts to have the same pool of correspondents and to share resources with Washington Week (which is also produced by WETA-TV). Coinciding with the move, the weekend editions began carrying feature segments covering culture and the arts. Sreenivasan (who remains
10152-477: The weekend broadcasts were solely produced by WNET, before the New York City station transferred all of its PBS NewsHour involvement to WETA in April 2022. In September 1981, production of the program was taken over by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, a partnership between Robert MacNeil , Jim Lehrer , and Gannett ; the latter sold its stake in the production company in 1986. John C. Malone 's Liberty Media bought
10260-490: The weekend editions of the program wil premiere on September 7, 2013, with Hari Sreenivasan serving as anchor. Although they aired for a half-hour, the weekend broadcasts were branded with a program name, called PBS NewsHour Weekend . This program is based on the duration of WNET's involvement with the program. From the weekend broadcasts' debut until the March 27, 2022 edition, the Saturday and Sunday editions originated from
10368-416: The year. Named for philosopher Sidney Hook and originally called "The Hookies", the honor was renamed "The Sidney Awards" in 2005. The awards are presented each December. Brooks met Jane Hughes, his first wife, while both attended the University of Chicago. She converted to Judaism and changed her given name to Sarah; they divorced in November 2013. Their eldest son volunteeered at age 23 to serve in
10476-543: Was "a dumb partisan hack", went on to argue that Brooks possibly "perceived facts and statistics as an opportunity for dishonest people to work mischief", and so did not use them to support his policy positions. Annie Lowrey , responding to Brooks' opinion, "The Nature of Poverty", on May 1, 2015, in the New York magazine, criticized Brooks' basis for his argument for political reform, claiming he used "some very tricksy, misleading math". Sean Illing of Slate criticized
10584-429: Was "the liberals' favorite conservative" Brooks said he "didn't care", stating: "I don't mind liberals praising me, but when it's the really partisan liberals, you get an avalanche of love, it's like uhhh, I gotta rethink this." Brooks describes himself as beginning as a liberal before, as he put it, "coming to my senses." He recounts that a turning point in his thinking came while he was still an undergraduate, when he
10692-436: Was a female anchor of a national nightly news program on broadcast television. Effective January 17, 2000, The NewsHour added "America Online Keyword: PBS" to its ending screen for a three-year agreement through April 22, 2003. For only the website, the program took effect on April 23, 2003. On March 3, 2003, the program added dates from the 1999 graphics in the beginning. On November 17, 2003, The NewsHour added music in
10800-442: Was anchored by Robert MacNeil from WNET's studios and Jim Lehrer from WETA's studios. In 1983, the show was rebranded as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour , and then The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer following MacNeil's departure in 1995. It was then renamed to its current PBS NewsHour title in 2009, two years before Lehrer left in 2011. Originally, the program only aired on weekdays before weekend editions began in 2013. Production of
10908-572: Was born in Toronto, Ontario , where his father was working on a PhD at the University of Toronto . He spent his early years in the Stuyvesant Town housing development in New York City with his brother, Daniel. His father taught English literature at New York University , while his mother studied nineteenth-century British history at Columbia University . Brooks was raised Jewish but rarely attended synagogue in his later adult life. As
11016-439: Was criticised online following a tweet presented as misleading that claimed an airport hamburger meal had cost $ 78, and that the exorbitant cost of hamburgers was the reason Americans were dissatisfied with the economy; his critics pointed out that Brooks' high restaurant bill was the result of his ordering multiple scotches along with his meal. In 2004 Brooks created an award to honor the best political and cultural journalism of
11124-461: Was criticized by Ben Alpers of the University of Oklahoma, for mainstreaming a "conspiracy theory"—the history of which he traces in his critique—that dated to the Nazis , and had antisemitic roots. Ari Paul of FAIR likewise was critical in a review of the expression's connotations, and its separate use by others. In a self-published blog post providing quotes of quotes of quoted material that make
11232-538: Was derided by political blogger Andrew Sullivan . In 2004, Brooks' book On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense was published as a sequel to his 2000 best seller, Bobos in Paradise , but it was not as well received as its predecessor. Brooks is also the volume editor of The Best American Essays (publication date October 2, 2012), and authored The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement . The book
11340-540: Was excerpted in The New Yorker in January 2011 and received mixed reviews upon its full publication in March of that year. It sold well and reached #3 on the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list for non-fiction in April 2011. Brooks was a visiting professor of public policy at Duke University 's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy , and taught an undergraduate seminar there in
11448-507: Was looking for the kind of conservative writer that wouldn't make our readers shriek and throw the paper out the window," says Collins. "He was perfect." Brooks started writing in September 2003. "The first six months were miserable," Brooks says. "I'd never been hated on a mass scale before." One column written by Brooks in The New York Times , which dismissed the conviction of Scooter Libby as being "a farce" and having "no significance",
11556-459: Was renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report on September 6, 1976. Most editions employed a two-anchor, two-city format, with MacNeil based in New York City and Lehrer at WETA's studios in Arlington, Virginia. Charlayne Hunter-Gault joined the series as a correspondent in 1977, serving as a substitute host for MacNeil and Lehrer whenever either had the night off. She became the series' national correspondent in 1983. Having decided to start competing with
11664-462: Was selected to present the socialist point of view during a televised debate with Nobel laureate free-market economist Milton Friedman . As Brooks describes it, "[It] was essentially me making a point, and he making a two-sentence rebuttal which totally devastated my point. ... That didn't immediately turn me into a conservative, but ..." On August 10, 2006, Brooks wrote a column for The New York Times titled "Party No. 3". The column imagined
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