The taxpayer-funded PBS NewsHour show on Thursday once again smuggled in left-wing propaganda in its “Brief But Spectacular” feature which occasionally appears at the ends of shows, sometimes a “black queer” poet to soften the hard-edged policies being advocated. This week it was prison abolition with a racial edge under the online rubric “A Brief But Spectacular take on how to protect your people.”
It’s not even the first time PBS has used the tax-funded segment to promote prison abolition without a dissenting view offered.
Host Geoff Bennett soft-pedaled Jayadev’s radical views.
Bennett: Raj Jayadev is a MacArthur Fellow and founder of an organization which supports people who’ve been through the criminal justice system. Tonight, he shares his Brief But Spectacular take.
Indeed, Jayadev won a “no-strings attached” fellowship grant…