Last August, PBS announced it was entering a partnership with the leftist magazine The Atlantic to rebrand its Friday night journalist roundtable show Washington Week. We’ve studied six months of this merger, and it’s no surprise that it’s dramatically anti-Trump and anti-Republican. Our PBS analyst Clay Waters shares his findings.
Over the last six months, more than half (88) of the 157 topics addressed focused on Republicans, over twice as many as those focused on Democrats (38). As we like to ask, “who’s the president?” Democrats control the White House and the Senate, but all the heat is on Republicans.
The panelists only come from liberal outlets from PBS and NPR to The New York Times and The Washington Post. No Fox News reporters need apply!
These panelists spent 149 minutes opining about Republicans, and nearly 90 percent of it was negative….
