PBS Slights Non-Pro­test­er Rights on Cam­pus: ‘No Right to…Most Con­ve­nient Path to Library’

<div>PBS Slights Non-Protester Rights on Campus: 'No Right to...Most Convenient Path to Library'</div>

Tuesday’s PBS New­sHour actu­al­ly brought on a crit­ic of the pro-Hamas pro­test­ers cur­rent­ly infest­ing col­lege cam­pus quads across the coun­try, which so far have got­ten a near­ly free ride from scruti­ny (there’s cer­tain­ly been lit­tle scruti­ny of the pro-Biden groups fund­ing them).New York Times colum­nist David French is cer­tain­ly no hard-core con­ser­v­a­tive — he’s pret­ty close to PBS reg­u­lar David Brooks — but his opin­ion that the “camp­ing” pro­test­ers posed a threat to oth­er stu­dents and should be removed was a strong coun­ter­point to PBS’s knee-jerk sup­port of the agi­ta­tors and its exquis­ite sen­si­tiv­i­ty to the rad­i­cals’ demands.That was too much for New­sHour reporter and inter­vie­wee Lisa Des­jardins, who found bizarre ways to excuse the mobs, which have often tar­get­ed Jew­ish stu­dents in dis­gust­ing ways. She intro­duced French as some­one “who says col­leges are not doing enough to crack down” on protests. Jour­nal­ists have been ter­ri­ble at dis­tin­guish­ing peace­ful protests and occu­py­ing pub­lic or pri­vate spaces. Des­jardins sug­gest­ed to French he’s weak on injus­tice:  “Pr …