A Frontline to watch

Anyone concerned about the shape of things should watch the latest episode of the PBS series Frontline: “Trump’s Power & the Rule of Law.”

And as it happens, the Senate voted earlier today to remove funding for public broadcasting (The New York Times). My House idiot: “No more taxpayer-funded Leftist propaganda. DEFUND PBS & NPR!!” Not us: we’re sending our PBS affiliate more money.

Something to think about, from the Times:

NPR and PBS would survive — only a small percentage of their funding comes from the federal government. But the cuts would force many local stations to sharply reduce their programming and operations as early as this fall. Many public broadcasters receive more than 50 percent of their budgets from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

That means the package could be a death sentence for some stations, which have survived several attempts to choke off funding over the decades. For other broadcasters, it would mean cutting back on local programming.

That’s why this time we’re sending more money to our local affiliate, not to NPR and PBS.