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NPR & PBS Closing down?

The nonprofit institution that provided significant funding for PBS and NPR is disbanding after nearly 60 years in operation.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — created by Congress in 1967 — has been dissolved because of federal budget cuts pushed by the Trump administration, the CPB announced in a Jan. 5 news release.

"What has happened to public media is devastating,
” said Ruby Calvert, chair of CPB’s Board of Directors, in the release. "After nearly six decades of innovative, educational public television and radio service, Congress eliminated all funding for CPB, leaving the Board with no way to continue the organization or support the public media system that depends on it. Yet, even in this moment, I am convinced that public media will survive, and that a new Congress will address public media’s role in our country because it is critical to our children's education, our history, culture and democracy to do so."


Ruby says that what happened to public media is devastating. He is right, it is devastating that two geat
public funded organizations became an arm of the DNC.

We cannot publicly fund partisan media.
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FreeSpirit1 · 51-55, F
No not NPR and PBS just the CPB which was funded by taxpayers . CPB Gave money to NPR and PBS, now they have to operate without it
DogMan · 61-69, M
@FreeSpirit1 You are correct, but the CPB was funding the majority of NPR and PBS
FreeSpirit1 · 51-55, F
@DogMan No it wasn't
DogMan · 61-69, M
@FreeSpirit1 Yes it was. 🫪😏
DogMan · 61-69, M
@FreeSpirit1 Do you think NPR and PBS will be able to make it on their own?
FreeSpirit1 · 51-55, F
@DogMan yes , but they will be smaller without the govt handouts
DogMan · 61-69, M
@FreeSpirit1 Why? All they have to do is get a few advertisers to make up the small amount
they were getting from taxpayers, right?
FreeSpirit1 · 51-55, F
@DogMan that is what they will probably do. and more fundraising drive. And it wasn't a small amount, just not the majority.