Monday’s PBS NewsHour handed over a news segment to an ostensible ratings rival, NBC News and its investigative reporter/podcaster Mike Hixenbaugh, who has a new book out with the portentous title They Came for the Schools -- One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms.
Hixenbaugh, along with his onscreen NBC reporting counterpart Antonia Hylton (a frequent guest here at Newsbusters for her aggrieved takes on related topics, like Texas removing LGBTQ books from school libraries) have collaborated on stories and a podcast, “Southlake,” a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Audio Reporting in 2022. A Pulitzer fact sheet described the podcast as “a riveting and insightful account of an anti-Critical Race Theory movement in a Texas community, a phenomenon that has reverberated through school districts across the country.”
