The PBS NewsHour led its Tuesday evening newscast with the week’s big issue: abortion, an issue of such apparent import (and perceived advantage to the Democratic Party in November) that both anchors took a biased crack at it before the segment itself.
After a soundbite from Arizona’s Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs saying the “abortion ban is extreme and hurts women,” Bennett introduced journalist Carter Sherman, who writes from the United States for the left-wing UK paper The Guardian about (ahem) “reproductive health.”
The outlet in question — and that euphemism for abortion — were two hints that what’s about to unfold won’t hew to PBS’s congressional mandate for “strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial nature.”
They pivoted to the political repercussions. The takeaway: Good for Democrats.
Sherman, who…
