{"id":23299,"date":"2025-05-04T19:14:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T19:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/pbs-ceo-says-we-have-never-seen-a-circumstance-like-this-after-trump-targets-funding-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T19:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T19:14:32","slug":"pbs-ceo-says-we-have-never-seen-a-circumstance-like-this-after-trump-targets-funding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/pbs-ceo-says-we-have-never-seen-a-circumstance-like-this-after-trump-targets-funding-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS CEO says &#8220;we have never seen a circumstance like this&#8221; after Trump targets funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington \u2014 <\/em>PBS CEO Paula Kerger said Sunday that &#8220;we have never seen a circumstance like this&#8221; after <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-executive-order-cutting-funding-pbs-npr\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">President Trump issued an executive order<\/a><\/span> last week aimed at cutting federal funding to the two major public broadcasting systems \u2014 PBS and NPR.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is different. They&#8217;re coming after us on many different ways,&#8221; <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/katherine-maher-npr-paula-kerger-pbs-face-the-nation-transcript-05-04-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Kerger said on &#8220;Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan<\/a><\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Mr. Trump signed an executive order instructing the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-trump-terminated-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Corporation for Public Broadcasting<\/a><\/span>, the private nonprofit that serves as the steward of the funding to public media, to cease federal funding for PBS and NPR. The executive order dictates that the government &#8220;shall cease direct funding to NPR and PBS, consistent with my Administration&#8217;s policy to ensure that Federal funding does not support biased and partisan news coverage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kerger said it&#8217;s one of a number of avenues where the administration is &#8220;coming after us,&#8221; including with a possible rescission of already appropriated funds, and an effort to challenge sponsorships from corporations through the Federal Communications Commission, among other things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/04\/ad566212-ec8a-4eca-bf2c-ffccde3ec7c7\/thumbnail\/620x349\/bcfe401618c16e531475e2ae5065ca59\/1746376681187.png?v=7c5acc180b39394767372ab4e02619ce#\" alt=\"1746376681187.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/04\/ad566212-ec8a-4eca-bf2c-ffccde3ec7c7\/thumbnail\/620x349\/bcfe401618c16e531475e2ae5065ca59\/1746376681187.png?v=7c5acc180b39394767372ab4e02619ce 1x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Katherine Maher and Paula Kerger on &#8220;Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,&#8221; May 4, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously we&#8217;re going to be pushing back very hard, because what&#8217;s at risk are our stations, our public television, our public radio stations, across the country,&#8221; Kerger said.<\/p>\n<p>Kerger said PBS gets 15% of its funding from the federal government, but said that figure is an aggregate number, with some stations in small communities receiving up to 40% or 50% of their funding from the government. For them, she said &#8220;it&#8217;s existential,&#8221; adding &#8220;that&#8217;s what&#8217;s at risk if this funding goes away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the funding that Kerger said she expects to be impacted is funding from the Department of Education, which she said has supported the creation of children&#8217;s programming and the research behind its educational components. Kerger said the programming was created because not all children have access to formal pre-kindergarten.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was the idea with Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers, and everything that&#8217;s followed since is to make sure that children that do not have access to a full array of resources have the opportunity to learn and to develop skills that they&#8217;ll need the first time they enter preschool,&#8221; Kerger said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what&#8217;s at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NPR CEO Katherine Maher also appeared on &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; Sunday and said &#8220;we&#8217;re looking at whatever options are available to us&#8221; to challenge the executive order. Maher echoed that the &#8220;immediate damage is to local stations,&#8221; while noting that other scenarios, like a clawback of already appropriated funds, or if stations were no longer able to participate in their membership dues, would be &#8220;damaging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The impact of this could really be devastating, particularly in rural communities,&#8221; Maher said, noting that there are 246 stations throughout the country, and for some Americans, they provide the sole local source of news.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/05\/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">executive order<\/a> says &#8220;Americans have the right to expect that if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news coverage,&#8221; while arguing that government funding for news media is &#8220;not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.&#8221; The order claims that neither PBS nor NPR present &#8220;a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maher, who noted that she doesn&#8217;t personally make editorial decisions, said in response to the suggestion that NPR is not fair and non-partisan that &#8220;I think our newsroom would really take issue with that.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been on air for more than 50 years. 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