NEW YORK (APP) – PBS says he is closing his diversity, equity and joining office to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order, and these two executives when efforts begin in 2021 Discover
The move, eliminating the jobs of Sicilia Living and her partner Jenna Liu, has come to the fore to fight against federal funds such as public television and radio grid, which is likely to be more serious in many years. Is
Despite eliminating the DEI’s efforts, PBS CEO Pola Carner said Tuesday, “We were determined to tell stories of all Americans before holding the office, and then continue this work. Will. “
He said that since the PBS received federal financing through the US Department of Education and the National Science Foundation for their children’s programming, the lawyers of the system vowed that they needed to comply with Trump’s order. The system usually helps $ 535 million by the government, which is about 16 % of its budget, but because it is filtered for public broadcasts by private corporation, so it is clear No, it will require compliance or not.
Some of the 330 member stations of PBS have their own DEI efforts and they receive CPB funding, so it will be up to them to decide what to do with their offices. “We are trying to encourage them to see lawyers see their circumstances,” the Career told the Associate Press.
The Free Press website reports that initially other jobs within the PBS system consider love and Liu’s transfer. The Carner said it was thought about but was rejected.
The DEI office belonged to the maximum of ethnic equity. He said most of his recent work ensures that children with hearing affairs have access to PBS programming.
Four years ago, PBS suffered pressure from the opposite direction. More than 130 film beans sent a letter to the system stating that its relationship with the documentary film cans Burns came at the expense of others and that PBS was “in fulfilling the mandate of voices diversity. Systemic failure “demonstrated.
With the Trump administration’s current efforts to reduce federal spending, the carger believes that public broadcasts will be closely seen. US San Mike Lee posted “IPBS and NPR Defund Defund” on Tuesday.
This is no new opinion. In the past, Republicans have made similar calls, mainly due to the conflict that the news programming is bent. Finally, efforts to eliminate PBS usually decrease by pressure from hundreds of stations across the country to pressure individual lawmakers.
It is expected that the supervisor and NPR officials will be testified next month before the House of Representatives and Government Reform Committee.
“I think this is different this time because a lot of scrutiny is being done,” said Carner. “I never believe that government funding will continue. I think we have to work hard every time when these questions come to ensure that we are making the matter why this is important.
“This is the time when people assume that” there is prejudice in the game, “he said. Some people think that news efforts are very conservative, others are very liberal. “We take this part of our work very seriously and if we remember at some point, we correct it,” he said.
He said that California’s forest fires in Florida have been worked out by local stations to inform the citizens during the hurricane, he said, adding that the need to inform the lawmakers is an example of things.
“I am always a hopeful person,” but I think it needs a lot of conversation whether we can be at the level of financing to enable our stations to continue. “
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