It was a triple-liberal-team up against Donald Trump on Tuesday’s edition of the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour with an interview segment headlined online, “How media organizations are facing the task of covering Trump’s anti-democratic rhetoric.” (Ironically, the segment on the dangers Trump posed to democracy was introduced with news that Trump had been removed from the ballot in Colorado. Who’s against democracy, again?)
Host Geoff Bennett set up White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez, perhaps the show’s most liberal reporter, to talk to leftist journalism professor Jay Rosen and Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg (who recently took over PBS’s Washington Week) about “one of the greatest challenges that journalists are facing,” how to cover Donald Trump’s campaign for a second term. You can’t treat it like it’s normal! It’s a grave threat!
She invited…
