What's next for PBS and NPR after Republicans strip funding?

LA Times via Yahoo ^ | July 18th, 2025 | Kaitlyn Huamani, Stephen Battaglio

[HIDEK6]

When I moved south in 1982 I read Shelby Foote’s 3-volume series about The War Between the States. I read it while referencing a 1940 atlas and a 1982 Rand McNally Road Atlas so that I could relate the roads described in the history to the present day roads.

Then I visited the sites.

That experienced informed my admiration of Shelby Foote.

[HIDEK6]

Experience.

[jeffersondem]

“Can you cite an example of that bias?”

I can cite what I saw Burns say years later in an interview.

This is not a direct quote but he stated the slide show was biased against the South because the war was about slavery and because everyone is against slavery it was not possible to be unbiased.

Again, that is not a direct quote but it is an accurate summary of his stated views, as I remember.

[jeffersondem]

This is not the reference I made in my previous post to you; it is a more recent, bolder example of Burns’ anti-Southern bias.

Yes, in the original series Burns was less transparent in his attacks on the South and his hidden agenda fooled many people.

Now we see Burns inching closer and closer to demonizing most of the founding fathers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOwrd2kRQcA

[Fury]

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I would think the NPR and PBS would find this liberating. They will need to get creative with their fundraising, and they can report on anything like like with no fear of any funding clawbacks from FedGov.

Seems liberating from my perspective.