Fred Rogers from “Mister Rogers neighborhood” Once sat before the congress and gave a touching statement as to why the Nixon administration would not reduce federal funding to PBS. But for a long time away are the days when Republicans and Democrats could gather behind a single figure and lighthouse of goodness that Mister Rogers. Just in March last year, leader of both PBS and Npr was brought before the congress for an ugly hearing where everyone from Elmo to Elon Musk was invoked.
Again this week, public broadcasts are being attacked. President Donald Trump late Thursday signed an executive order is aimed at “Closing Taxpayers’ subsidization of Boot Media“Accuses both PBS and NPR of producing biased,” left propaganda. “The order specifically states that the company for public broadcast must stop the direct or indirect funding of PBS, NPR and its subsidiaries with the help of taxpayers funded dollars.
But even Clifford The big Red dog will not roll over without a fight (or one leg).
Patricia Harrison, the president and the CEO of CPB, explained in a statement that it is “not an agency that is the subject of the president’s authority” and is instead funded by Congress two years in advance as a non -profit organization to prevent exactly this type of political maneuver.
Paula Kerger, President and CEO of PBS, called Trump’s executive order “Blakant illegal.”
“The president’s obvious illegal executive order, which was issued in the middle of the night, threatens our ability to serve the American public with education programming, which we have done during the last 50-plus years,” Konger’s complete statement reads. “We are currently investigating all options to allow PBS to continue to serve our Member Stations and all Americans.”
NPR also said in a statement, “eliminating funding for public broadcasts would have a devastating impact on American communities across the country that rely on public radio for reliable local and national news, culture, life -saving emergency warnings and information on public security.”
According to PBS, public broadcasts cost the US taxpayer about $ 1.60 per person per year. Much of both NPR and PBS funding does not come from taxpayers alone but from donations and sponsors. So it is unclear the exact extent of what Trump’s executive order will be immediately.
Trump administration, along with the order, produced his own ”Fact sheet“Accuses the stores with partial coverage involving all of today’s right buzzwords, from dei to Hunter Biden’s laptop to transgender people.
Trump previously took over the Kennedy Center Because of some of the events, it had involved transgender people and tensile shows. First, the Trump administration really didn’t like this NPR report on Valentine’s Day discussing the queer animals Found in nature and the article’s suggestion that it may have been more accurate to nature, Dad Marlin from “Finding Nemo” had become female. It is obvious that the meaning triggered to some people.
While he is still searching for his next big hit in the vein of a “Downton Abbey”, PBS looks at Angel Blue and makes his debut as “Aida” at Met, a special called “Walking with dinosaurs” and an “American Masters” on “At Seventeen” singer Janis Ian.
