PBS Hails Moral Preening of Documentary Highlighting Phony School Book 'Bans'

On Sunday’s PBS News Weekend, anchor John Yang introduced a self-satisfied segment on a new documentary from the literary, so-called free speech advocates at Pen America, based on the misnomer that books are being “banned” from schools and public libraries, as opposed to being removed due to concerns over age appropriateness regarding explicit sexual content.

PBS is picking up the baton from their public radio cohorts at NPR, which has made a cottage industry about performative outrage over phony “book bans,” often when the American Library Association’s “Banned Books Week” rolls around every year.