President Donald Trump's federal budget proposal has the head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting lamenting "fake news," and criticizing attitudes towards rural viewers in testimony before Congress Tuesday.
"People in this country yearned for content they could trust. And where are we right now — we're living in this environment of 'fake news,'" CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison told a House Appropriations subcommittee, according to the Washington Examiner.
"Eight of 10 Americans trust PBS at a time when the Trump administration delegitimizes any reporting it doesn't like as fake news. It's a transparent attempt to keep Americans in the dark about their failures and ethical improprieties," New York Democrat Nita Lowey said, according to Bloomberg.
Harrison added that there might be a "soft bigotry of low expectations," as former President George W. Bush once said, towards rural viewers who depend on public broadcasting.
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Abolish "public broadcasting" and the AD COUNCIL!
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ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time PBS and NPR represented an impartial view. I supported financially at that time. Their perspective shifted to bias and my support stopped. They need to regain confidence of more people and the only way is through neutral coverage and reporting. In the interim, NFW!
Appears this woman is out of touch with rural America. This is a political point of view. Rural America has more common sense and knows the truth from a con.
ReplyDelete"Eight of 10 Americans trust PBS at a time when the Trump administration delegitimizes any reporting it doesn't like as fake news.
ReplyDeleteLOL!!!!! Maybe one in ten! These people are making up their own numbers to beg for government assistance! Lying shills for lobbyists anymore.
"Eight of 10 Americans trust PBS!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWho the hell did they poll? The flaming socialist liberals that promote and watch that one-sided left wing political garbage?