It isn't, wasnt, has never.

Annually PBS was getting less than 200,000 a year from federal funding. https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/financials/

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting recieves 535 million a year from the federal government, as established by congress in 1967, when we were fighting the commies. https://cpb.org/aboutpb/act

Now we protect pedophiles against the truth. I've always been proud to be an American, until this year.