PBS President Suggests Trump Will Shut Down Tiny Alaska Stations

Tim Graham
August 1st, 2017 7:27 AM
PBS president Paula Kerger appeared at the summer tour of the Television Critics Association to make dire warnings about PBS stations shutting down in Alaska if President Trump's plan to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting passes Congress. This is exactly the same playbook the pubcasters used in the mid-90s when Newt Gingrich promised to zero them out. 
 

New York's Top PBS Snobs Raise Money by Mocking Commercial TV for 'Rea

Tim Graham
May 29th, 2013 8:09 AM
The top PBS station in New York is marketing itself to potential new donors in the most natural way: by snobbishly mocking commercial TV as “a sea of madness.” Sadly, commercial TV stations probably won’t fight back by mocking prissy British period dramas like “Downton Abbey.” (I might suggest a mop-topped Muppet that looks like Ken Burns that constantly boasts of his own importance as a…
 

PBS Strikes Back: 'Romney Does Not Understand the Value the American P

Noel Sheppard
October 4th, 2012 4:54 PM
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during Wednesday's debate with Barack Obama said he would end the federal subsidy to PBS. On Thursday, PBS struck back with the following statement:
 

Hypocrisy! PBS President Lectures: Media Should 'Serve Kids, Not Sell

Tim Graham
January 16th, 2010 4:40 PM