There Is No Dignity in Capitulation

There Is No Dignity in Capitulation

A worrying pattern has taken hold in public television.

PBS Edits Anti-Trump Section Out of Spiegelman Documentary

It has been revealed that the recent documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse was edited before PBS allowed it to be aired as part of their American Masters series. From Documentary Magazine: Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part […]

“C” is for Censorship: PBS Cuts ‘Art Spiegelman’ Doc and Other Dubious Acts at Embattled Broadcaster

Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part of its strand American Masters, the filmmakers were told that a 90-second sequence—which shows the famous artist discussing an anti-Trump cartoon he created for the 2017 Women’s March newspaper—would be cut from the documentary.