To the editor: Unsurprising the Trump administration is attempting to defund public broadcasting (“PBS and NPR cater to all Americans, despite what Marjorie Taylor Greene might believe,” April 1). All through historical past, authoritarian regimes have tried to dismantle public entry to the inventive arts, and that’s above all what PBS and NPR commerce in. The inventive arts feed the soul, and the soul is the place lack of bias and fundamental human kindness lie. Within the face of human degradation, it’s proved to be our most resolute and immutable essence, our most defiant self. It’s an entire lot simpler to manage an individual’s thoughts than their soul. Small marvel this regime desires to starve ours.
Sheran James, Laguna Seashore
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To the editor: In a Home Oversight Committee assembly NPR’s Katherine Maher and her counterpart at PBS, Paula Kerger, tried to defend the hundreds of thousands of {dollars} of presidency funds spent on public broadcasting. Each floundered badly. On this age of trillion-dollar deficits, even a couple of paltry hundreds of thousands should be saved — notably {dollars} contributing to completely biased information retailers.
John Hammerel, Santa Barbara
