Over at taxpayer-funded PBS, there was quite the bit of grousing over the level of intensity of the interview of President Elect Donald Trump that aired on NBC’s Meet the Press. As they complained about the lack of fact-checking, they demonstrated why both the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS should be among the first targets of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) once it is fully operational.
Watch as PBS NewsHour anchor Amna Nawaz and White House Correspondent Laura Barrón-López (LBL) complain about a perceived lack of real-time fact-checking and pushback on the part of Kristen Welker:
AMNA NAWAZ: Laura, we’ve talked before — a lot of news organizations have reported on the challenges of interviewing President-Elect Trump because of the frequency and the volume of many of the lies he puts forward. It was well-documented…
