PBS Revises History, Tries Making Atomic Bomb Debate About Journalists

PBS Revises History, Tries Making Atomic Bomb Debate About Journalists

It is well known that the media likes to make themselves the main character of every story they can, but Tuesday’s PBS American Experience documentary about the atomic bombings on Japan took things to a whole new level. The main takeaway for PBS’s assembled cast of BlueSky historians is not that the narrative we tell ourselves about the necessity of the bombs is true, but rather that it is a coping mechanism to hide any moral guilt from a 1946 J…