Iran's 'Nuclear Weapons Program,' Again By Peter Hart

31 January 2013FAIR Blog

On Monday’s edition of the NewsHour (1/28/13),  host Gwen Ifill referred to concerns about  the “threat posed by Iran‘s nuclear program,” and told viewers at the end of a Margaret Warner report that “Margaret’s next story looks at the debate in Israel over how to deal with the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.”

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Fair Action Alert: PBS and Iran's "Nuclear Weapons"

24 October 2012Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

In an October 22 discussion of the foreign policy presidential debate, the PBS NewsHour‘s Jeffrey Brown stated that “Iran‘s nuclear weapons program has been a particular flash point.”

A few weeks earlier (10/5/12) on the NewsHour, Ray Suarez said that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez had 

continued to thwart American efforts on a range of international issues, such as Washington’s attempt to convince Iran‘s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to halt his country’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.

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