Months after President Donald Trump was successful in eliminating all federal funding for public broadcasting in the United States, Sunday’s launch of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” serves as an attention-grabbing message.
The message is unambiguous: “We remain here.” The six-night run of the documentary is “a huge moment for PBS,” according to CEO Paula Kerger. Trump’s plan to cut public media funding has caused some misunderstanding in the marketplace.
“People thought that meant that we were gone,” according to Kerger, because the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is shutting down as a result of the funding decrease.
But The American Revolution”‘s massive, noisy marketing effort is showing otherwise. The public television system is still in place and capable of moments the scale of HBO and Netflix, like the most recent from Burns, despite agonizing layoffs and other cost-cutting measures.
We started this in December 2015 with 13 months left in Barack Obama’s presidency, Burns said to Anderson Cooper of CNN. “During this time, there has been a lot of water under the American bridge.
Trump frequently suggested cutting funding for the CPB during his first term in office, but congressional Republicans kept the money in place, partly to save the local stations that serve their voters.
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