Dear American Friends:
CBC (Canada's public TV) is problematic, but despite various Conservative threats to eradicate it, I will do anything I can to prevent it, because it is extremely important for any free nation to have non-commercial media with which its peoples can communicate.
So I am horrified to see this is happening. My own first exposure to American public television was Sesame Street when I was a kid. So much brilliant educational programming has been produced, which is why I've donated to PBS when I could over the years. I can't begin to imagine the repercussions of this blow to American culture.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/nx-s1-5469912/npr-congress-rescission-funding-trump
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/nx-s1-5489808/cpb-shut-down-public-broadcasting-trump
With all Mr Trump's other hits to the economy, it may be tough, but please donate/share if you can. If public media is allowed to die, reinstating it will be next to impossible.