“Breaking the News,” the latest entry in PBS’s documentary series “Independent Lens,” celebrated the 2020 launch of leftist journalism start-up The 19th* (asterisk included), which became a popular source for the most woke of PBS NewsHour journalistic guests.
The doc’s creators are clearly on the same wavelength with the feminist, LGBTQ-oriented site. From the “About” page:
Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding together to launch The 19th*, a digital news startup aiming to combat misinformation….
It opened with Emily Ramshaw, former Texas Tribune editor and co-founder of The 19th* at home with her husband David — wincingly identified as “He/Him” on screen. Stuck at home in March 2020 during COVID, she’s talking to a white male potential…
