PBS Promotes Apocalyptic Folkie Twisting Black Spiritual Into Green Jeremiad
The nightly PBS NewsHour has provided weeks of intensive coverage of the Pakistani flooding blaming “climate change.” Now the news show is sneaking it into arts coverage as well – in folk song. Retro-folk musician James Blount’s visions of environmental apocalypse were found worthy of a full segment on the Tuesday evening show, courtesy of Special Correspondent Tom Casciato: “Jake Blount’s new twist on Black American folk music.”
Source: newsbusters.org