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Buried deep inside an article in today's Times on the struggles of PBS in a cable-saturated market (with scaled-back corporate underwriting and diminished government support) is an odd little note about one of our favorite bow tie-loving subjects: Tucker Carlson.

John Tierney and Jacques Steinberg talk with PBS president Pat Mitchell and report:

She also said she had not been personally pressured to change programming by Republicans at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides federal money to the system. But she said her programmers had worked with their counterparts at the corporation, which is led by White House appointees, in developing several new shows, including a talk show for the conservative commentator Tucker Carlson.


It's nice to see the White House hookin' a brother up like that.

What's also interesting (to fans of semantics) is the fact that the resulting show is called Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered and the president himself complained so much about the mainstream media's "filter" during last year's campaign. Coincidence? Probably. But if PBS had been honest, the show would be called Unwatchable.

Conservatives and Rivals Press a Struggling PBS [NYT]
Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered [PBS]