Ken Burns: Public media funding cuts ‘shortsighted’
Jul 18, 2025 - 17:01
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Ken Burns, a documentary filmmaker and director whose work is often published on PBS, criticized Congress’s elimination of $1.1 billion of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). “I think we’re all in a bit of a state of a shock and also sort of reeling at the shortsightedness of it all,” Burns said…