Congress Shrinks PBS: Now Playing, 100+ Unemployed Humans
After Congress decided that 'public media funding' was suddenly a villain, PBS is trimming its corporate lawn by slashing 15% of its staff — more than 100 jobs vanished faster than your favorite documentary on late night TV. In a bureaucratic plot twist that screams ‘sorry not sorry’, those hardworking humans who brought you pledge drives and Ken Burns marathons suddenly face the cruel inequality of capitalism, while Congress probably high-fives in a room full of corporate lobbyists. The timeline is grim and ongoing: recent cuts ripple through PBS HQ as their trusted huggable mascots of educational grown-up TV wave goodbye in freeze-frame.
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PBS just lost 15% of its staff thanks to Congress saying 'Nah, we don’t want your documentaries anymore.' Nothing says ‘support the arts’ like firing humans who teach us stuff while politicians Instagram their lunches.
Cutting public media funding so more people can argue on Twitter about politics that PBS just had to explain in the first place. Efficiency at its finest.
PBS firing 100+ staff because funding got ghosted by Congress, proving public broadcasting is now a fancy charity for jobless journalists.
Source: Feeds | Published: 9/5/2025 | Author: David Folkenflik
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