Years ago, the PBS NewsHour and later Washington Week would have comments sections where viewers could express their opinions. I was constantly shocked at how ill-informed the viewers were. I would write of events which I took for granted that everyone was familiar with. The commenters would think I was making things up and I would have to cite links from liberal sources such as the NYT and Washington Post. What is shocking is that PBS was content to have such uninformed viewers. Even today, on most issues, they present only one side. They do not trust the viewers’ intelligence to hear both sides and make up their own minds what to think. They’ve become an advocacy group.
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