On Monday evening, hours before the U.S. Senate passed 51-48 President Trump’s rescission proposal to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which would end taxpayer funding for PBS and NPR, guest host William Brangham hosted Tom Abbott, general manager of KFSK Radio in Petersburg, Alaska, a low-population state that has received high amounts of attention from journalists rallying around the Public Broadcasting Service in the interest of preserving taxpayer funding.
Guest host William Brangham had his propaganda down pat before introducing his guest remotely from Alaska, a state painted by legacy media as one in particular need of emergency warnings that only public broadcasting can provide (false). There was, of course, no rebuttal aired from a supporter of the rescissions package.
