On Friday night’s PBS News Hour — two nights after they devoted nine minutes to recovery efforts on the Los Angeles wildfires without mentioning Mayor Karen Bass, Gov. Gavin Newsom or even the word “Democrats” — they promoted a new book by MS NOW reporter Jacob Soboroff that mostly blames Donald Trump and Elon Musk for causing the most damage with their “disinformation.”
Soboroff did throw in the usual doom notes about climate “emergency” to please the PBS audience about the fires, which began in the last days of the Biden presidency: “Changes in the way we live, our infrastructure is falling apart, the global climate emergency, obviously, and the politics of misinformation and disinformation all played a part.” The last phrase was all about Trump and Musk.
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