‘PBS NewsHour’ Explains Controversial Report On Trump Supporter
MARCH 18, 2016 | 10:14AM PT
“PBS NewsHour” added a clarification to a recent report that profiled a supporter of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump after viewers and online commenters noticed the news program had not questioned one of the subjects who appeared to have tattoos on her person commonly associated with the white supremacist movement ...
“In our report Tuesday night on a North Carolina family that’s supporting Donald Trump, we were continuing a long NewsHour tradition of talking directly to voters.
We want to hear from them, in their own voices, speaking about what motivates their political preferences.
Regrettably, none of us at the NewsHour recognized the questions that could arise from Grace Tilly’s tattoos, and we didn’t raise them with her until after the report aired. At that point, our producer contacted Ms. Tilly and she insisted the tattoos are religious in nature and have nothing to do with a neo-Nazi theme or white supremacy ...
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/pbs-newshour-trump-white-supremacy-1201733827/
