On Monday, police cleared the latest “pro-Palestinian” encampment at Cal State-Los Angeles, as Associated Press reported it came “just days after demonstrators occupied and trashed a building while the school’s president and other employees were still inside.” The establishment media promoted these leftist tactics for weeks.
How did taxpayer-funded media cover the anti-Jewish, pro-Hamas protests that dominated college campuses this spring? A new Media Research Center study analyzed the words used by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) reporters, guests, and talking heads over 36 days of protest coverage and found PBS’s flagship news program NewsHour/News Weekend to be overwhelmingly on the side of the protesters, downplaying their pro-Hamas, anti-Jewish rhetoric, not challenging the protesters on their sympathy for the eliminationist goals of Hamas, and…
