Davich: Region Artist to Protest at Trump Tower in Chicago over Public Media Budget Slash

Ken Burns Condemns Republican Plan to Defund PBS: 'I Couldn’t Do Any of My Films Without Them'

With the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Ken Burns is set to release a six-part series on the American Revolution this November. But it could be premiering on a PBS deprived of federal funding by Donald Trump and Republicans. In an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” set to air this weekend and taped at Thomas Jefferson’s home Monticello, Burns praised PBS as essential to both his filmmaking career and America as a whole af…

“The Declaration of Independence Applied To The Communications World”: Ken Burns Defends PBS, Tells CBS News That Defunding Public Media Is “Foolhardy”

As Congress considers legislation that would strip federal funding from public media, filmmaker Ken Burns is speaking out on the prospect, calling it “foolhardy” and telling CBS News’ John Dickerson, “I couldn’t do any of the films I’ve done without them being on PBS.” Burns has been a prominent voice defending public media, but he also will be a major figure in talking about the American Revolution, as the U.S. prepares to celebrate the 250th…

Davich: Region artist to protest at Trump Tower in Chicago over public media budget slash

J.J. Weinberg, a professional artist from Valparaiso, will protest in costume as his artistic hero, Bob Ross, whose rise to fame emerged from the broad brushstrokes of financial support and international popularity from public media broadcasting.