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PBS Hosts Nick Kristof for DOGE-Dissing, Invites Him to Defend His Indecent Hit Piece on Israel

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PBS Hosts Nick Kristof for DOGE-Dissing, Invites Him to Defend His Indecent Hit Piece on Israel Amanpour & Co. , which airs on PBS and CNN International, invited New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, and to blame it on Elon Musk. Is this Kristof’s first TV appearance since the summer’s controversy over his indecent hit piece from Israel? Kristof’s recent columns blame tragic situations in impoverished Third World countries on Elon Musk and his cost-cutting initiative DOGE, namely cuts to foreign aid delivered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). After a Kristof soundbite (“We have another huge crisis, again with mass murder, mass rape, with starvation, and we have the sound of silence”), guest host Bianna Golodryga’s introduction played up “the catastrophic hole left by USAID” to set up Kristof’s later segment with NPR anchor Michel Martin. After Martin introduced us to Kristof’s reporting on USAID, Krist

First report: Nicholas Kristof on the Front Lines of the World’s Deadliest Crises — cascadepbs.org, 18d