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.
Ruby Calvert, head of CPB’s board of directors, said the federal defunding of public media has been devastating.
CPB said it was financially supporting the American Archive of Public Broadcasting in its effort to preserve historic content, and is working with the University of Maryland to maintain its own records.
Trump, a moron and huckster, continues to employ the old mob tactic of attempting to profit from everything, oblivious to even the simplest things.
He believes he’ll be remembered fondly like Reagan by his cult, but history has proven otherwise. He’ll be remembered as the biggest fool for attempting to accomplish something seemingly insurmountable by listening to today’s trust fund kids.
The only thing he’ll be remembered for is being one of the primary causes of the American Revolution. There’s a reason kings and queens these days position themselves in a Mickey Mouse like position, less heat. Rocking the boat tends to end with your ass in the waters.