This is not a parody. PBS’s ombudsman reports that viewers were “outraged” and “appalled” that Max Boot demolished Lawrence Korb’s arguments during PBS’s NewsHour last week. Of course, they say they’re angry that Boot was given more time to speak than Korb, but NewsHour’s host Margaret Carlson writes in her defense: “A look at the transcript will show that since Lawrence Korb tended to give relatively short answers, I tried to compensate by asking him two questions at each of his ‘turns’ to speak.” But outraged viewers shouldn’t worry. It appears PBS has already atoned by hosting a fair and balanced discussion on Iraq between Peter Galbraith and Juan Cole.
