Nothing underlines the partisan nature of PBS right now than The Atlantic magazine being allowed to take over the long-running Washington Week program in August of 2023. This was not a hostile takeover, but a deeper branding of what PBS is – taxpayer-funded mangle-MAGA TV.
Four years ago, The Atlantic tried to take Donald Trump down with anonymous sources claiming he called the American war dead “suckers” and “losers” on a European trip (which was strongly rebuked by Team Trump). In 2024, they did it again with anonymous sources claiming after pledging to pay for a funeral for a murdered Mexican-American soldier, Trump raged, “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f—ing Mexican!”
All their anonymous sources sound like rhetorical assassins. Now, they have a PBS platform to promote this – on Washington Week with The Atlantic and on other…
