PBS NewsHour co-anchor Amna Nawaz escaped her D.C.-based news studio and ran to the Arizona-Mexico border, filing from both sides of the border in three reports over three evenings. It makes sense for reporters to be on the scene of a flashpoint of a big election-year issue. Yet American electoral politics were completely absent from the three-day conversation, even as the presidential campaign has launched in earnest with each candidate (Joe Biden and Donald Trump) clinching his respective party’s nomination. Somehow PBS avoided mention of the B-word (Biden) over the three segments.
And did Nawaz have to be so respectful to one interviewee in particular — a coyote, someone who smuggles immigrants across the border into the United States?
Amna Nawaz began in Chiapas, Mexico.
Nawaz came so close to the truth.
The coyote’s reply sounded like something out of The Godfather.
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