The documentary series Frontline on tax-funded PBS issued its latest quadrennial documentary on the two major candidates running for president: “The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump.”
Producer Michael Kirk told Forbes magazine he and his team worked “to balance out the screen time for each of their subjects.” Kirk also told Forbes it was “really hard” to fight the impulse to put his “thumb on the scale in some way.” Kirk may have passed the first test of balanced screen time, but failed hard on not putting a partisan thumb on the scale.
In typical Frontline fashion, the emphasis was heavy on curated clips of interviewees, with only brief off-screen narration by the program’s veteran, Will Lyman. The summary verdict? Trump is a fraud, Harris is a barrier-breaker.
Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose interview was spliced into several…
