The Friday primetime lineups of CNN and MSNBC did not handle the news that President Trump signed an executive order forbidding taxpayer money for PBS and NPR well, as they portrayed the news as an assault on everything from democracy, science, the military, farmers, and even the country itself.
On his CNN show, Anderson Cooper asked PBS documentarian Ken Burns, who will be out with a new documentary on the Revolution in November, “There’s plenty of documentaries on Netflix, for instance. What’s the value of public broadcasting?”
Burns tried to wax poetic but ultimately just ended up sounding like a crazy person, “Well, I think it’s important that we do things together as a country. The enrichment that PBS has brought to my life, to our collective lives is just undisputable. I think PBS is part of the pursuit of happiness machine. They’re part of what…
