PBS's Amanpour Again Makes Up 'Threat to Academic Freedom' Under Trump

Monday’s Amanpour & Co. on PBS (and CNN International) invited former Columbia University president Lee Bollinger to criticize the Trump Administration for squelching free speech (a common theme of late on previously federally funded media lately).

Bollinger burst out of the gate snarling “McCarthyism": BOLLINGER: "....you really have to go back to the McCarthy period, which was really about one senator leading a campaign of intolerance. You have to go back to that for something comparable. And so the level of intrusion, the threat to academic freedom, the need to think about universities and their role in the Constitution and the First Amendment is much more imperative today than it really has been in modern history."