There are over 50 wealthy sponsors for PBS NewsHours and none of them to my knowledge dictate the news coming from the NewsHour or NPR. I have for many decades found their stories to be fact-based and timely - far more reliable than Twitter posts. They are also usually more in-depth than 20-minute ABC, NBC, or CBS news due to having an entire hour. Fox and MSNBC just fill the entire day with stories which are full of opinionated drivel like Twitter.
I KNOW some of the people who were let go. My office was across the street when it happened. One of the producers was the daughter of one of my colleagues. Same with NPR.
PBS sold out to Koch money years ago.
There are over 50 wealthy sponsors for PBS NewsHours and none of them to my knowledge dictate the news coming from the NewsHour or NPR. I have for many decades found their stories to be fact-based and timely - far more reliable than Twitter posts. They are also usually more in-depth than 20-minute ABC, NBC, or CBS news due to having an entire hour. Fox and MSNBC just fill the entire day with stories which are full of opinionated drivel like Twitter.
I KNOW some of the people who were let go. My office was across the street when it happened. One of the producers was the daughter of one of my colleagues. Same with NPR.