During a time of pressure on public broadcasters, PBS says that it is shutting down its office of diversity, equity and inclusion and firing the two executives who staffed it.

PBS has announced it will be permanently closing its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) office in response to an executive

PBS is closing an office dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, following Donald Trump’s series of executive orders targeting such programs. The announcement comes amid the prospect that public television funding will be targeted by the current administration and Republicans in Congress.

In another dispiriting bit of news, which says nothing about our backsliding democracy, PBS has closed its DEI office to comply with President Trump’s recent executive orders. Ever angry about the idea of a diverse workforce or,

PBS fired two diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) executives and scrapped the department after Bari Weiss’ online publication Free Press was tipped off that the broadcaster was ignoring President Trump’s executive order eliminating the controversial initiative.