A PBS executive pushed for the removal of an anti-Trump cartoon in a documentary about famed artist Art Spiegelman.
Stephen Segaller, of parent company WNET, said that his rationale was not to get in the good graces of the president, who has attacked PBS for pushing “left-wing propaganda.” Rather, the comic’s inclusion in the documentary feature, Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse, was a “breach of taste,” The New York Timesreported.
The cartoon “portrays what appears to be fly-infested feces on Trump’s head,” according to the Times. The depiction of Trump was for the 2017 Women’s March newspaper, RESIST!
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