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Tax-Funded PBS’s ‘Brief But Spectacular’ Take Pushing for Prison Abolition

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…

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