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While congressmen are right to be angry over how NPR and PBS covered certain stories, a more important issue is at stake: The federal government should not be funding journalistic outlets ...
(WANE)— As communities in northeast Indiana recover from severe storms and tornadoes on Sunday and Wednesday, PBS Fort Wayne said it was experiencing cuts to funding that would go toward ...
Supporters of public broadcasting outlets PBS and NPR should start pondering how much demand there really is for the content those entities produce. If there is sufficient demand, funding ...
And at a House committee hearing, NPR and PBS executives hoping to preserve their funding had to fend off charges of cultural indoctrination as well. President Donald Trump is a strong advocate ...
with more than $500 million in funding. Some 40 million Americans tune in to NPR at least once a week and about 36 million watch their local PBS station each month, according to estimates from the ...
Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who called NPR and PBS “radical, left-wing echo chambers.” Republicans called for an end to public funding for broadcasters during the hearing and repeatedly ...
In fact, every Republican administration except Gerald Ford’s has tried to cut funding, according to PBS News Hour. ADVERTISEMENT Last year, a senior business editor at NPR wrote an essay ...
A new Pew Research Center poll found that less than a quarter of Americans wanted NPR and PBS to lose their federal funding. Specifically, 43% supported continuing to fund NPR and PBS, 24% wanted ...
Katherine Maher of NPR, at left, and Paula Kerger of PBS are scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill about the federal funding their organizations receive. (StephenVoss/NPR and Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty ...
“When you think about PBS Kansas, you think about the arts, culture, music, drama, dance, education, information, all of these wonderful things.” Federal funding makes up 24% of his budget.
The heads of NPR and PBS sat for a high-intensity grilling on ... and partisan coverage" and have them defend the federal funding they receive in a fiery, partisan hearing. Maher conceded that ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A House Republican pushing the Trump administration’s government efficiency efforts called for dismantling and defunding the nation’s public broadcasting system following ...