Posted on 01/05/2026 3:04:05 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967.
CPB had been winding down since Congress acted last summer to defund its operations at the encouragement of President Donald Trump. Its board of directors chose Monday to shutter CPB completely instead of keeping it in existence as a shell.
“CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks,” said Patricia Harrison, the organization’s president and CEO.
Many Republicans have long accused public broadcasting, particularly its news programming, of being biased toward liberals but it wasn’t until the second Trump administration —- with full GOP control of Congress — that those criticisms were turned into action.
Ruby Calvert, head of CPB’s board of directors, said the federal defunding of public media has been devastating.
“Even at 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,” Calvert said.
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Fresh Air, in the traditional sense?
That’s a shame.
Can I still get a tote bag during pledge week?
Over 40 years too late.
So how independent are these NGOs if they can only existing the perpetual dole? It would be far more honest to make them part of the government. And if there is a constitutional problem with that, then there should be the same problem with them being funded.
Fresh Air, in the traditional sense?
I would say yes, All Things Considered.
Amen.
40 years late.
LOL
You two are a couple of real wags!
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One of the things I have noticed in watching PBS programs is the large number of people that are employed to produce a 1/2 hour program.
This is what happens when the Feds were giving CPB $500 million each year. PBS then employed a bunch of so-so qualified to produce these programs.
Well reasoned.
I was a young lad when I was told that the reason for their existence was to get around the payroll cap that applied to federal workers.
Later, FDR, Franklin Delano Raines, was paid $70 million one year as the head of Fannie Mae. After the 2008 crash, he was forced to give tens of millions back. Jamie Gorelick was paid $30 million. I don’t know if she had to give any back.
Rather than confronting the truth. How many Public Television stations had major programming on the Globull Climate Hoax?
Many decades ago, they called it non-commercial television/radio. What a crock. At the beginning of each show/hour, on radio and TV, there would be "the supporters." The Pepsi Foundation, The Tide Foundation, etc, etc.
They’re dissolving because they have something to hide.
Lol. Good one.
The CPB could have continued on as a not-for profit charitable enterprise but that would mean the “leaders” of CPB would actually have to do real honest work.
There was a time when public TV was needed. That time ended with cable TV and is now 100% over with the internet. If you want to find a documentary on virtually any subject you have youtube. For fun I searched for a biography on Herman Melville and found 3 videos over 30 minutes long on the first page.
Wonderful news!
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