A 60 Minutes segment on Sunday night focused on the “growing trend of right-wing book bans” that they report were inspired, in part, by the parental rights group Moms for Liberty.
The report by correspondent Scott Pelley featured a sit-down interview with the group’s co-founders, Tina Descovich and Tiffany Justice. Pelley opened his report before his interview with the group leaders by chiding activist parents fighting against sexually explicit materials in school libraries as pushing “conspiracy theories” and claimed they “threatened librarians,” in addition to calling school board members “groomers.”
60 Minutes initially focused on Beaufort, South Carolina and reported that their book battle was about “mostly young adult novels with minority, gay, lesbian or transgender characters” and were in mostly “high school libraries.”
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