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Trump to Republicans: Defund PBS, NPR — or Lose My Endorsement
The president says GOP lawmakers have to claw back $1.1 billion earmarked for the “monstrosity” behind U.S. public broadcasters
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Ken Burns Condemns Republican Plan to Defund PBS: ‘I Couldn’t Do Any of My Films Without Them’
The documentary filmmaker called PBS the “Declaration of Independence applied to the communications world”
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The Assault on Good-for-You TV: C-SPAN and PBS Teeter as Trump Attacks
Programming spared from commercial pressure to serve viewers is suffering as politics and changing distribution weighs in
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WGAE Urges Senate to Halt Effort to Defund PBS and NPR, Says House Vote Is ‘Fueled by Radical Right-Wing Ideology’
A union spokesperson says the idea that slashing public broadcasting of $1.1 billion will offset national debt “is a total fabrication”
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House Republicans Vote to Slash $1.1 Billion in PBS, NPR Funds
President Trump moves a step closer to clawing back tax dollars previously earmarked for public broadcasters, who he has called “radical left monsters”
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Trump Calls on Congress to Erase $1.1 Billion in Public Broadcast Funds
The president’s rescission request comes after he signed an executive order to defund PBS and NPR last month
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PBS Chief Says Trump Defunding Will Have Permanent Local Impact: ‘Stations Would Likely Be Sold, and That’ll Be the End’ | Video
Paula Kerger says the public broadcaster will find digital workarounds to reach rural areas amid the president’s proposed cuts
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‘The Daily Show’ Suggests ‘Sesame Street’ Builds Its Own Trump Tower to Help Re-Fund PBS: ‘Could Be a Win-Win’ | Video
Host Jordan Klepper says the publicly funded organization should consider using the same tactics as Syria amid Trump’s promises to lift sanctions on the war-struck country
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Ken Burns Calls PBS ‘the Declaration of Independence Applied to Broadcasting’ After Trump Slashes Funding | Video
The documentarian tells Anderson Cooper he could not have made his 40+ films anywhere else
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Muzzling Big Bird: Trump Tries to Silence the ‘Liberal Media’ of PBS and NPR
The executive order defunding these publicly funded outlets may not pass legal muster, but it reflects Trump’s habit of pivoting to culture-war issues when under pressure
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PBS Chief Calls Trump’s Executive Order Defunding the Network ‘Blatantly Unlawful’
Paula Kerger says PBS is exploring “all options” to allow the network to continue in the wake of the president’s move
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Debunking the PBS Myth: What Happens if Trump Defunds It
Rural areas and children from low-income households may be the most impacted if federal funding is revoked
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Marjorie Taylor Green-Led DOGE Panel Rips ‘Radical Left’ NPR and PBS, Calls to End Public Funding
NPR boss Katherine Maher was questioned about 2020 tweets in which she called President Trump a “fascist” and “deranged racist sociopath”
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‘The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram’ Explores the Danger of Online Extremism
Frontline and ProPublica team on an investigation of a white-supremacist network accused of trying to “encourage and inspire” acts of violence
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Senator Richard Blumenthal Slams FCC’s ‘Unprecedented, Intrusive’ Investigations Into Paramount-Skydance, Comcast, NPR and PBS
The Democrat is heading an inquiry into the agency’s “apparent retaliatory actions against news organizations targeted by President Donald Trump”
