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Listen to Mister Rogers’ defense of public media funding in 1969

The Senate recently passed a bill that would decimate public media, clawing back roughly $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps fund NPR and PBS. The bill, which contains a total of $9 billion in spending cuts, now goes to the House. This is not the first time the government has tried to cut funding to public broadcasting. In 1969, Fred Rogers, the creator and host of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," testified before the US Senate Subcommittee on Communications to defend the continued funding of public broadcasting after President Richard Nixon proposed cuts.

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