The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funnels taxpayer dollars to NPR and PBS, is shutting down after the Trump administration cut all funding. To me, this deserves a holiday celebration if it means we never again have to listen to anti-American diatribe over public airways,
None of the articles I read stated that the disestablishment of CPB means the end of PBS and NPR, and all their stations. However, my understanding is that the affiliated stations and probably the D.C. headquarters will have to seek private funding to continue operating. Let me know if I’m wrong.
“For more than half a century, CPB existed to ensure that all Americans — regardless of geography, income, or background — had access to trusted news, educational programming, and local storytelling,” CPB president and CEO Patricia Harrison said in a statement today announcing the action.
Did she ever listen to or watch these broadcasts? They may as well have been under the direction of Zohran Mamdani.
With the display of U.S. military and political resolve in Venezuela over the weekend, coupled with the end of public broadcasting (fingers crossed), I’d say it’s the start of a great New Year.
