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.
Censorship doesn’t have to be a direct order to be chilling across an entire industry. This is PBS running scared of an administration threatening to remove their public funding.
Guess free speech is only free as long as it’s postitive for the dear leader.
