PBS, defunded by Trump, says 'we're still here' with big new Ken Burns documentary

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding for public broadcasting in the US.

The message is clear: “We are still here.”

The documentary, which airs over six consecutive nights, is “a really big moment” for PBS, said Paula Kerger, the organization’s CEO.

There has been some marketplace confusion as a result of Trump’s campaign to defund public media.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pbs-defunded-trump-says-still-182920369.html

[elleng]

1. ' some marketplace confusion' means rational folks not using their minds.

WISH my grands will see this.

[Tree Lady]

2. We decided to give the money we saved

By quitting Hulu to PBS, we need lots of dems to do that.

[Silent Type]

3. PBS has been doing well with private -- screw trump -- donations.

[Jack Valentino]

13. "it's a George Soros conspiracy!"

[wcmagumba]

4. Bravo PBS...I'm watching and it is excellent...

[Sympthsical]

5. The entire thing is available on the PBS website

https://www.pbs.org/show/the-american-revolution/

Well looking forward to it once I get a little time. I've seen the Civil War documentary more times than I can count.

And the Vietnam documentary is vital viewing for anyone who, like me, did not live through it. You can read things in history books, but I don't think I ever really understood what my father went through (two tours) until I sat with that for an entire week.

[evolves]

6. Watching now!

Ken Burns and PBS-- an excellent pair!

[Cha]

7. Great Private Donations.. Brilliant!

& a Big Fuck Off to the Orange Glazed Hellbeast.

[Emile]

8. Recording it.

[CBHagman]

9. Bumping for visibility.

I've been a PBS nerd all my adult life, and I'll never forget the experience of spending night after night watching Ken Burns' The Civil War. May The American Revolution improve the national dialogue as we go into the nation's 250th birthday.

[misanthrope]

12. I hope it does more than improve dialogue

I hope it ignites revolutionary zeal.

[dweller]

10. Compare and contrast

Now and Then


The pop quiz will be a surprise …


✌🏻

[misanthrope]

11. More than that it is a rebuke of the current administration

It outlines the similarities with the current authoritarian regime that stirred independence. The documentary shows the same deprivations, outrages, and infringements that the Trump administration is reintroducing. It speaks of the lack of religious test, the polyglot population, the absence of the cultural stricture that has characterized America, in direct refutation to what the Trump bunch currently insist is truly American.