By Prof. Bill Willers<\/p>\n
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS<\/span><\/a>) was established in 1969 as a\u00a0publicly-funded<\/span><\/a>, commercial-free nonprofit focused on educational programming. Being \u201cpublic\u201d would naturally demand balanced coverage, but charges of bias have been unrelenting, primarily from the Right, so public funding has been steadily chipped away. Currently, only about 15% comes from governmental subsidies, so the \u201cpublic\u201d is primarily in the name.<\/p>\n The PBS NewsHour airs five nights week. It differs not a whit from the rest of mainstream \u201clegacy” media news in its \u201clying by omission\u201d of material from the vast landscape of facts and schools of thought out of step with key official narratives. The Overton Window, that informational cage keeping the public ignorant of unwanted particulars, is strictly adhered to at PBS.<\/p>\n On Fridays, the PBS NewsHour has for years been followed by Washington Week, a half-hour discussion of current political issues with a moderator plus three or four other mainstream journalists. Suddenly, in August, 2023, the program became\u00a0\u201cWashington Week With The Atlantic”<\/span><\/a>\u00a0with The Atlantic Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, moderator. Even the most anti-Trump individuals might be amazed at the level of anti-Trump focus, week after week, now being seen on what is theoretically to be a program of balanced coverage. The Atlantic Magazine, with Goldberg at the helm\u00a0since 2016<\/span><\/a>, represents a hard-hitting pro-Zionist, anti-Trump agenda, and it needs to be recognized that PBS has openly chosen to make that agenda a central aspect of its identity.<\/p>\n Jeffrey Goldberg himself is high within the Zionist power spectrum, having attended as a youth a socialist\u00a0Zionist summer camp<\/span><\/a>, later moving to Israel where he was a corporal in the Israeli Defense Force, a\u00a0prison guard<\/span><\/a>\u00a0at Israel’s Ktzi\u2019ot Prison for Palestinian prisoners (This is his\u00a0book<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on the subject). He is a regular speaker at Zionist organizations. A good indicator of The Atlantic’s domination of the PBS Washington Week program can be seen in its year-end presentation\u00a0on December 29, 2023<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in which, in addition to moderator Goldberg, two of the four attendees were staff writers for The Atlantic, with a third the magazine’s Executive Editor. Goldberg even quips jokingly during the program about \u201can Atlantic takeover\u201d.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s nothing to chuckle about. Two items now generating extraordinary division in the country are Zionist versus Palestinian interests along with Democratic\/Biden\/globalist versus Republican\/Trump\/nationalist priorities. Divisions are so intense there is even unease concerning the possibility of civil war. The best of journalistic balance and exploration of all sides of hotly contested issues has not been greater in living memory, and yet PBS has made the startling decision to join forces with a publication the agenda of which is clearly one-sided.<\/p>\n In his Sept., 2023 13,000-word\u00a0biography<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0General Mark Milley, a\u00a0de facto<\/i>\u00a0anti-Trump hit piece by means of his dissection of the Milley-Trump relationship, Goldberg describes the era itself as\u00a0\u201c\u2026 not normal, because Trump was exceptionally unfit to serve\u201d<\/i>. Milley is depicted as savior of America from a President that Goldberg describes as characterized by\u00a0\u201ccognitive unfitness and moral derangement\u201d,<\/i>\u00a0and whose\u00a0\u201cattitude toward the uniformed services seemed superficial, callous, and, at the deepest human level, repugnant.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0It\u2019s interesting that Goldberg, in weaving his political worldview, uses a General who, although troubled by some of Trump\u2019s characteristics, himself avoids political involvement as improper for military figures. Along the way, Goldberg lambastes what he calls \u201cTrumpists”, eg his reference to\u00a0“Michael Flynn, Trump\u2019s QAnon-addled first national security adviser.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n Goldberg repeats a report that Milley feared Trump\u2019s\u00a0\u201c \u2018Hitler-like\u2019 embrace of the big lie about the election\u201d<\/i>, thus reinforcing the \u201chonest election\u201d mantra at a time when indication of election fraud in 2020 continues to mount (About that, see\u00a01<\/span><\/a>,\u00a02<\/span><\/a>,\u00a03<\/span><\/a>,\u00a04<\/span><\/a>,\u00a05<\/span><\/a>,\u00a06<\/span><\/a>). In the same article, he also reinforces the fabricated myth that al-Qaeda brought down the World Trade Center, as if the wealth of\u00a0accumulated data<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by physicists and engineers demonstrating that the three buildings had been professionally wired for demolition prior to 9\/11\/2001 simply don\u2019t exist. But then, for Goldberg, such information would naturally be avoided, for why would a staunch Zionist want to spotlight\u00a0evidence of Mossad’s involvement<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in the 9\/11attack? This reinforcement he accomplishes through his quoting of Milley:\u00a0\u201cAnd our primary goal for going there [Afghanistan] was to prevent al-Qaeda or any other terrorist organization from striking the United States ever again\u2026.. And we have not, to date, been attacked from Afghanistan\u2026..\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n As the probability of Trump winning the 2024 election continues to grow, those intent on attacking him over the years are showing real fear,\u00a0as the\u00a0Jan\/Feb, 2024 issue of The Atlantic Magazine<\/a>\u00a0makes clear with “IF TRUMP WINS” emblazoned on its cover next to a long list of anti-Trump articles by the magazine\u2019s staff writers.\u00a0\u201cHe is driven by self-interest and revenge, in that order \u2026. and he wants to redeploy federal prosecutors against his enemies\u201d<\/i>, claims Barton Gelman. George Packer\u00a0writes that\u00a0\u201cTrump wants power again for two reasons, and a policy agenda isn\u2019t one of them: to remove the humiliating stain of defeat \u2026 and to exact revenge on his enemies\u201d,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s not hard to imagine Trump breaking laws to go after journalists.\u201d\u00a0<\/i>Franklin Foer predicts that a second Trump term would yield\u00a0\u201ca Mafia state\u201d.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n