Wednesday’s PBS News Hour covered the Trump administration’s efforts to cut taxpayer funding for PBS and National Public Radio. PBS didn’t present its conservative critics beyond vague generalities, while anchor Amna Nawaz and reporter William Brangham took the opportunity to lobby for themselves.
Anchor Amna Nawaz: As we have been reporting, the Trump administration wants to cut the federal funds that support public media in the U.S., which would impact NPR and PBS and the roughly 1,500 local public media stations across the country. It would, of course, also affect national programs like the “News Hour.” The Trump administration has now drafted a memo that could make those cuts happen soon….
Reporter William Brangham was in studio to explain why the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds public media outlets like PBS and NPR, was…
