PBS CEO: Romney plans to cut funding ‘extremely disappointing’

PBS CEO Paula Kerger finds recent comments by GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney about cutting the programming service’s federal funding as “extremely disappointing” given the “value the American people place on public broadcasting and the outstanding return on investment the system delivers.” This week, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney joined the ranks of Republicans unimpressed by PBS’s 58 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations who have vowed to slash its federal funding. Romney told Fortune magazine he’s a fan of PBS, but federal funding of same would get cut off during his administration. Joining PBS in Romney’s tumbril are Amtrak, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.