NBC News went in on PragerU, depicting the conservative educational nonprofit as scary disinformers threatening to upend our nation’s noble and besieged public education system. But in order to do so, NBC News engaged in active disinformation by depicting a family of entrenched public school advocates as a regular family.
“Critics say the videos are a tool to push a political agenda”, is how anchor Lester Holt introduced the report before going to Antonia Hylton. Hylton, of course, is a known commodity when it comes to education reporting. Meaning, she’s known to take the side of entrenched public school interests against parents.
After opening with boilerplate criticism of PragerU, infinitesimally small quotes of both CEO Marissa Streit and founder Dennis Prager, and a brief chat with a teacher while displaying a deceptive edit of a Candace Owens…
