Tuesday’s PBS NewsHour dealt with the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay, a shocking move fueled by her botched performance at a congressional hearing on recent pro-Hamas protests on progressive college campuses. Gay was further doomed by myriad examples of plagiarism within her incredibly modest collection (for a Harvard president) of published research.
But tax-funded PBS continued to protect a fellow elite, even though Gay, who will continue to draw her $900,000 annual salary as a member of the Harvard faculty, has hardly suffered a fatal blow.
After a notably terse introduction by host Geoff Bennett, reporter William Brangham’s interviewed Boston Globe reporter Hilary Burns, who sympathized with Gay’s phony defense that suggested scrutiny of her work was based in racism, as if the definition of plagiarism hinges on who is making the accusations against whom. (Many…
