Conspiracy Kooks at CBS Spin Only ‘Republicans’ as Upset With 1619 Project

[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS This Morning journalists butchered the facts on Wednesday as they spun the withholding of tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones into a GOP plot. Reporter Nikki Battiste suggested Hannah-Jones’s 1619 Project is only being “criticized by Republicans,” ignoring the fact that Pulitzer-Prize-winning historians (who are not conservative) have also done so. CBS covered the fallout of the University of North Carolina belatedly offering The New York Times journalist tenure, only to have Hannah-Jones reject it and go to Howard University. According to Battiste, “The [1619] Project has long been criticized by Republicans, including former President Donald Trump.”