{"id":2022631,"date":"2025-09-15T04:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2022631"},"modified":"2025-09-15T04:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:11:15","slug":"emmys-2025-politics-congress-gets-booed-for-voting-to-defund-public-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/emmys-2025-politics-congress-gets-booed-for-voting-to-defund-public-broadcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmys 2025 Politics: Congress Gets Booed For Voting To Defund Public Broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">There were many cheers and a few standing ovations at the Emmys, but also a loud chorus of boos.<\/p>\n<p>Those jeers were directed at Congress for voting to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, putting in jeopardy the future of some stations and forcing major cuts at PBS and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0891842\/\">NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Academy Chairman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0009312\/\">Cris Abrego<\/a> opened his speech by noting that the Emmys honored the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0083961\/\">Cpb<\/a> last week at the Creative Arts ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Noting some of the programming funded by Cpb, he noted <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063951\/\">Sesame Street<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2326517\/\">Finding Your Roots<\/a>, and then said, \u201cIn many small towns, those stations weren\u2019t just a cultural lifeline, they were the only <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0891824\/\">Emergency<\/a> Alert System families could count on. 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