Self-reflection was absent as the cast of characters that made up Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour attacked President Donald Trump’s executive order that cut off their taxpayer money. From putting their heads in the sand on their liberal bias, to trying to make themselves free speech martyrs, Friday’s show by itself showed by Trump’s move was the correct one.
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Brangham was the first, but certainly not the last person to try to tie PBS’s fate to other outlets. Later, Nawaz asked New York Times columnist David Brooks a similar question, “He's alleging bias in the reporting. And it is, as we have seen, the latest move by the president to use executive power and the levers of government to target institutions, media, cultural, academic, that he disagrees with. At its core, what do you believe this is about?”
Brooks claimed, “At its core, the Trump administration is based on one them, which is, they think progressive elites have destroyed the country, we need to take progressive elites down.”
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