Paula Kerger, the longest-serving chief executive of PBS, is used to fights over the public broadcaster’s funding. But to her, the latest threats feel like “all-out effort to take us out.” Read our full interview.
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Look at @nytimes.com still simping for the Trump Fascist Party while putting the onus on the female Chief Exec of PBS to try and save PBS and not blame the extremist Trump admin for actively trying to kill it.
What were you reading because I read something very different than you. A long running executive director? Republicans are always trying to cut their funding but it’s a double whammy now and she’s dealing with the sudden loss of funding
I get daily email from my PBS station with thanks but also the need for support.
Many small supports will help.
My Rep. also a big supporter of PBS/NPR
Dictator goal #1 is to control the narrative. All of these outlets reporting this story should be fighting back! We already know which ones have their hands in his pockets.
Exactly. So how much savings to the federal budget? USAID was less than 1%. Trump flying to Mar a Lago almost every weekend has cost us taxpayers $100 million so far. Waste and abuse?
Well done Paula Kerger, keep fighting for PBS, it is ironic that behind all of this was the lost Twitter battle to X buyout in the name of Freedom of Speech! Funded by a detailed attack at USA democracy by Musk solving the “Too Big to Rig”, used to placate Trump 1.0 loss, over 4 years of regrouping?
Those evil billionaires that everyone hates? I often see the Doris Duke Foundation credited for funding the program at the end of the show. Duke has been dead for decades. Ray Kroc from McDonalds left a generous donation to NPR
See the wealth gap since 1950
Taxes for the ultra rich decreased exponentially and our deficit and the wealth gap exponentially increased. Why should they be allowed to avoid taxes?
Doris, at least she donated. The thing is if we taxed them their share we would not need their selective charity. I just saw a video of a line wrapping around the block 5 people wide just to see a dentist in Arkansas, that’s not first world.
Ooh cool Ray!
Just look at the tax rate vs wealth gap.
So how many of the general public knows the finances of PBS or is a regular viewer. The article highlighted how serious the situation is. More serious than I realized and I thank the Times for informing me
How so? Did they change their programming? The article was about her dealing with the serious funding cuts, not the consistency of their programming. That would be an article on its own. Why not thank them for highlighting how bad the situation is?
My political views in the 80’s were center right. My views are exactly the same now as they were then but now, somehow I now find myself progressive left. It used to be a few extremists in the 60’s that were categorically ignored by most of us but over the years their views moved mainstream.
Kennedy started closing state mental hospitals in favor of treatment on a community level. But these community facilities were equipped to handle the seriously mentally ill.
No they do not. Only the fringe and insane portion of Republicans actually want that. They do not make up half of the nation, let alone the Republican voters.
PBS is biased...towards a bothsidisms that is not justified by the facts or reality. If they are guilty of anything, it is normalizing this administration, like most media, when it is anything but normal. Congress giving its power away and Senators admitting they are afraid of the Pres: NOT NORMAL!
What are you doing to help save democracy and root out corruption? Well, you’ll focus ALL of your attention on a person who does NOT have a job anymore but snuggle up next to the Orange Menace wreaking havoc with our constitution, our economy, our freedoms and rights, but yeah. All for access
I was a “sustaining member” for years. When they started to come under fire during the Gingrich/Moral majority years, they slowly ceded their neutrality, and grew ever more aggressive towards the left and conciliatory to the right wing bomb throwers.
They need to go on the attack then, using the truth as their main weapon !!! It's better to die on your feet, than live on your knees !!! Will they have the guts?........
Little known fact: In the early 1990s, the CEO of the US Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was Tucker Carlson’s father, Dick Carlson. Dick Carlson regularly rebuffed Republican accusations of left-wing bias at PBS/NPR.
The Ethical Media Outlets and Authentic Journalists have my continued support, respect and gratitude for the courageous service & work. I'm deeply grateful and I'll continue advocating for ethical journalism, journalism safety and our rights of Press Freedom 🎙️🗽🎙️
I’ve heard different numbers; what percentage is from federal dollars?
Our Cons keep dreaming about defunding the CBC. Won’t happen.
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PBS is awesome and trump is a lil bitch for trying to take their funds away. Fuck u crook and shove Qatars jet up Melanias twat. VOTE 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🤣👏 a good day for
I enjoy the opportunity to voluntarily fund good news reporting. I despise being forced to fund reporting that is constantly biased in one direction and morally insane, or is just propaganda. Actually I despise being forced to fund any news source.
If you’re “being forced to fund” basic (minimal) support for providing rural/underserved citizens access to noncommercial info, then I guess you also despise being forced to spend a lot more on military? Infrastructure? National parks? Corporate handouts?
Yes I do. Coercion outside of contractual enforcement is the ways fights and war starts. The contract is the Constitution. Anything outside of the constitution that I am forced to pay for at threat of imprisonment is extortion. A protection racket.
And they could have not done this story and brought attention to how dire the situation is. For 2 years all forms of the media warned America daily about Trump and a second term and what did it accomplish?
I despise the Right, but knowing that there are so many gazillionaires on the Left that could easily donate from their pocket change and keep PBS alive infuriates me. They’re wimps, as much as most of the Dems leadership.
Seldom thought about the CONSTITUTION.
Like most Americans, we're spoiled, took for granted the gift our forefathers fought for.
Now, the dipshit in the WH and the cowardly GOP Congress are trying to take our freedom rights away. VOTE, OR OUR WAY OF LIFE WILL DISAPPEAR
RESIST RESIST RESIST.
Narcissistic authoritarian felon sociopathic pathological liar tyrant wannabe king is bankrupting our government by dismantling, weakening it and tanking global economy so he can have COMPLETE CONTROL. Fascist oligarchy can't survive when confronted with worker solidarity! Nip them in the bud. NOW!!
PBS is one of the most beautiful treasures we have. Programming for all ages with a bit of culture mixed in. Please fight back against the cuts to PBS and all of the government services that have been decimated.
I am Canadian I support PBS ... Cascade PBS in Seattle Wa. I also support K: Knowledge Network in BC Canada. Quality Programming and not the garbage they show on Fox, ABC, CBS and NBC. The rot programming is the the main reason the USA has a president like him. He should be Fired.
When an administration is adamant on controlling all aspects of the media and what the public has, then no wonder that sources of education and access to information are seen as a threat. If you care about education and public broadcasting FOR the people, you should be outraged.
Start telling the whole truth, stop trying to thread the needle on dealing with Dtumps lies and bullshit. Actually consider rising to this critical moment in global history PBS!
So the US Fed gov is attempting to “86” PBS and its employees. Shouldn’t the DHS be calling such a threat a “terrorist” act on the part of the US Fed gov and seek to arrest all parties making threats to “assassinate” PBS and its employees?
I agree with conservatives on this. They have a separate view of reality and a separate set of morality, and why should they be forced to pay for secular news and views that sharply conflict with theirs?
I sure wouldn't want to have to subsidize PTL or the 700 Club or whatever they have nowadays.
PBS has a separate view of morality and reality? What are you talking about? They are unbiased in their news. I watch PBS a lot and have never seen what you’re talking about. They’re educational and air a lot of British programs which support inclusivity.
Everyone has biases and nobody can completely prevent those biases from leaking out.
Look at the biases you evidenced in your response: "educational" "support inclusivity"; preferences for watching PBS "a lot" or "British programs" are also biases.
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Know the bent when listen.
YOU GUYS JUST WAKE UP FROM A LONG NAP OR SOMETHING?
https://help.pbs.org/support/solutions/articles/5000673868-how-can-i-support-my-local-pbs-member-station-
Many small supports will help.
My Rep. also a big supporter of PBS/NPR
I'm sorry, but I've said since teabagger days. Don't even FLIRT with their ideas. It's bottomless rubbish.
I speak from the UK. I think PBS is a great channel.
Why are people so surprised?
Have these people ever heard the Maya Angelou quote 'When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.'
Taxes for the ultra rich decreased exponentially and our deficit and the wealth gap exponentially increased. Why should they be allowed to avoid taxes?
Ooh cool Ray!
Just look at the tax rate vs wealth gap.
This regime is fascist authoritarian.
There should no longer be any doubt about their plans.
New York Times, why don’t you say something like PBS has been the single most consistent outlet for American values and early childhood education
You pretty much crawled up Trump‘s ass in 2015 and I’ve parked your shulsberger fuckhead ass up there
They’ve also been saying that communism is being bred on college campuses
By their metric, we should have a nation full of communists by now that many would be in their 70s
Reagan gutted the middle class cut taxes for the top 10%
in half
Closed government mental institutions, creating the homeless crisis overnight
That’s just the tip of the iceberg
The most indicted president before Trump
The manager came out and told them both off.
I ended my support for good during trump1.0
The truth is what you can enforce -- that is fact.
They're trying to move the goalposts.
Our Cons keep dreaming about defunding the CBC. Won’t happen.
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finally got total control to destroy mUrica from within
Stand up
Do your part
Like most Americans, we're spoiled, took for granted the gift our forefathers fought for.
Now, the dipshit in the WH and the cowardly GOP Congress are trying to take our freedom rights away. VOTE, OR OUR WAY OF LIFE WILL DISAPPEAR
RESIST RESIST RESIST.
I sure wouldn't want to have to subsidize PTL or the 700 Club or whatever they have nowadays.
Look at the biases you evidenced in your response: "educational" "support inclusivity"; preferences for watching PBS "a lot" or "British programs" are also biases.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/11/justice-alito-america-divided/
Only right wingers rail against PBS. Are you a plant here on Bluesky?
Again, I ask, have you ever watched PBS or do you just listen to what Fox has to say?
Public TV is the channel of last resort if cable goes down, so everyone can get civil defense warnings.
Sam Alito said we are headed towards civil war--unless liberals acquiesce.
Have I watched PBS? Is that a serious question?
I'm not railing against PBS. I listen to The Current daily.
Best wishes.