The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump

Frontline has a well-earned reputation of excellence. However, as with PBS overall, this episode tries too hard to present it's two lead subjects as relatively equal. Producers give FAR TOO MUCH time (= credibility) to criminals & thugs of the Trump campaign and administration, with no acknowledgement of their particular histories of crimes & lies. Therefore, Trump is relatively normalized, instead of presenting accurately & honestly his profound abnormality in the history of the Presidency. Similarly, they show clips of Fox News and NewsMax, and other non-news sources of supposed commentary as though they are legitimate news sources, with no clarification of their known biases and failings.

It's too bad that so much time and attention is wasted, asking viewers to see and hear this trash as reasonable and factual history.

We'd like to see Frontline, and PBS overall, as trustworthy resources for honest presentation, analysis and discussion of factual information. Someone apparently directed producers to blunt the edges, round the corners, and dull the blades of the truth of Trump, before, during and after his Presidency. There's only one reason to do that, and that would be fear of offending wealthy donors and GOP politicians who may (or may not) have influence over PBS public funding. Sad.

This program is almost interesting, in seeing and hearing more of Vice President Harris' journey to this moment. But, even this was thin and cartoon-like. Sad. It could have been so much better.