All 335 PBS stations use federal funding, but the ones that depend on it are largely in Trump country. Once again, PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger has to justify the 50-year-old institution of public media. Last month, the Trump administration proposed for the third year in a row the elimination of the Corportation for Public Broadcasting, the “quasi-governmental” organization that distributes federal money to more than 300 PBS stations across the country. “I don’t understand why we’re a political pawn,” Kerger said on the latest episode of Recode Decode.