public television

"The local community relies on networks that will provide education, entertainment, and news that bigger networks won’t cover. Public television and radio provide access to all communities no matter the size, demographics or incomes."

PBS’ suit also says that, regardless of any policy disagreements the administration may have over the role of public television, “our Constitution and laws forbid the President from serving as the arbiter of content of PBS’s programming, including by attempting to defund PBS.”

This followed a 13-part, 13-hour series—Vietnam: A Television History—that premiered on PBS over 30 years earlier, in 1983, before being rebroadcast in abridged form on public television’s American Experience in 1997.

They even did a joint public television show, discussing the political issues of the day, called “The Long and the Short of It.”

Public television, with which both directors have long histories, has made their work possible and available.