Break Trust, Break Democracy

Why gutting public media is a calculated move to dismantle our democracy

I grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi, a city that boasted a population of roughly 40,000 in the mid-1980s. Like many families, for us, cable was a luxury, so we relied on the broadcast stations. In our part of the state, that meant ABC and PBS. We were lucky. The coastal region was a veritable metropolis compared to other areas of Mississippi, where news …