PBS doesn’t allow a debate about funding for PBS on the airwaves of PBS. Instead, you only get the pro-PBS side. On Tuesday’s News Hour, co-host Amna Nawaz tossed softballs at PBS CEO Paula Kerger about how wonderful they are and how defunding them is an existential threat for some PBS stations. Their overwhelming bias was not challenged.
What is your sense of the effort to rescind those funds? Is it a done deal at this point?…
I know you’re meeting with lawmakers, speaking to them to make the case. What is the argument you’re laying out to them and what are you hearing in response?…
We should note there’s been Republicans who have long sought to cut funding for public media. So is there something different about this effort this time around?
On the last question there, Kerger claimed PBS has always had “bipartisan support,” and “for many of our…
