This week marks the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia confronting the radical black group MOVE in an incendiary assault that killed 11 people, including five children, and destroyed a residential block. PBS News Weekend on Saturday marked the anniversary of with a dose of radical chic, omitting unflattering details about the bizarre urban enclave MOVE.
PBS spent six minutes and 40 seconds on this, even as they have ignored the Jake Tapper-Alex Thompson book on hiding Biden’s decline. There were no ideological labels, unless you count MOVE touting themselves in a clip as “revolutionary.”
Reporter Ali Rogin set the scene.
ROGIN: The complicated story of MOVE begins in the early 1970s. The organization followed the teachings of their founder, John Africa, who advocated a lifestyle rooted in nature. All members took Africa’s last name and lived communally…
