To the editor: It is not surprising that the Trump administration is trying to defuse the public transmission (“PBS and NPR serve all Americans, despite what Marjorie Taylor Greene could believe”, April 1). Throughout history, authoritarian regimes have tried to dismantle public access to creative arts, and that is above all what PBS and NPR trade. Creative arts feed the soul, and the soul is where the lack of bias and basic human kindness found. Before human degradation, it has proven to be our most resolved and immutable essence, our most challenging being. It is much easier to control the mind of a person than his soul. It is not surprising that this regime wants to starve.
Sheran James, Laguna Beach
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To the editor: In a supervision committee of the House of Representatives, Katherine Maher, and his counterpart in PBS, Paula Kerger, tried to defend the millions of dollars of government funds spent in the public transmission. Both staggered badly. In this age of billions of dollars, they even save a few million insignificant, particularly dollars that contribute to fully biased media.
John Hammerel, Santa Barbara
