Bias by omission on the PBS weekly news roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, as the panel of journalists played dumb about why Trump would cancel federal grant money from Columbia University, describing it as a typical Trumpian power grab. Whatever could have been happening there recently to validate such a move?
(Besides months of anti-Semitic campouts last year and the harassment of Jewish students and the chanting of homicidal slogans in the wake of Hamas’s terrorist invasion of Israel, of course.)
But this public television show skipped all that, making it seem Trump was just targeting an elite university because that’s what MAGA does.
Under a chyron that read “Revenge and Retribution,” guest moderator Franklin Foer addressed the panel.
Franklin Foer: I want to just talk about a few events which may have slipped under the radar…
