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Documentary Leaders Urge Senate Not To Ax Funding For Public Television & Radio
Funding for PBS and NPR must be protected, documentary field leaders are urging, as the Senate considers clawing back $1.1 billion in federal support.
“It’s up to the Senate,” noted Prof. Patricia Aufderheide of American University, a prominent media scholar and author of a widely read book on documentary film. As my colleague Ted Johnson reported on July 4, documentary great Ken Burns is speaking out on the issue, saying it would be “foolhardy” for Congress to strip federal funding from public media. “They also have not only our good children’s and prime time stuff, they have classroom on-the-air continuing education, homeland security, crop reports, weather emergency information.
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