The Friday primetime lineups of CNN and MSNBC did not handle the news that President Trump signed an executive order forbidding taxpayer money for PBS and NPR well, as they portrayed the news as an assault on everything from democracy, science, the military, farmers, and even the country itself.
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Later, during her show, Laura Coates welcomed Fred Rogers’s nephew, Daniel Crozier, and wondered, “Why is it so important to continue funding at PBS, obviously, the — the house of Mr. Rogers?”
Crozier made the false claim that, “Things of such value are — are presented by PBS that can't be at other networks because they aren't of commercial value. You know, it's a very special kind of thing, educational programming, the arts and history, all these things that PBS can offer that others can't.”
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