Back on May 19, ex-CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley hijacked the Wake Forest graduation ceremony to vent against Trump administration policies as well as the President’s lawsuit against CBS. “Journalism is under attack, universities are under attack, freedom of speech is under attack,” Pelley pompously proclaimed.
Then on Wednesday, CNN/PBS host Christiane Amanpour pitched a similar message to graduating seniors at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government: “No matter how many words are banned, how many news organizations are shuttered and threatened, how many journalists are threatened and intimidated, we will not be silenced… and no administration should be surprised.”
They aren’t the first media personalities to use the honor of speaking at a commencement ceremony to steal attention away from the achievements of those graduating in…
