Fred Rogers

Stelter Sees 'Very Loud and Convincing' Argument Against Public Media
The July 2 edition of Slate’s “What Next” podcast, “Is This the End of NPR and PBS?” began its argument for continuing to fund public television and radio with an ancient 1969 clip of Fred Rogers testifying before Congress. Before being officially introduced, guest Brian Stelter, CNN media analyst and all-around defender of the legacy media, was heard calling the clip “mesmerizing.” …

CNN, MSNBC Freak Out, Claim PBS 'Puts The Us In The U.S.'
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.

CNN Lines Up Mister Rogers Nephew in Shameless Plug for PBS
If it had started to seem that CNN couldn’t stoop any lower, they proved that wrong Thursday. That afternoon, the network exploited the memory of one of American television’s most beloved figures as a plug for the taxpayer-subsidized left-wing propaganda machines PBS and NPR as the Trump administration threatened to pull the plug on their funds.
