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.
Only if we find opposition that actually wants to do that. Best we can do so far is people that want to pretend it’s the 90s and that they need compromise and approval from Republicans.
Well, we’ve had that for quite some time really… the sad thing is, that’s not really a winning strategy.
We have g had candidates like that, Bernie and Warren come to mind right away. But the last time they ran, they couldn’t even win a primary, let alone the general election.
I agree that actual progressive policies could solve a lot, but much of the country does not seem to agree with that, so here we are.
For better or worse, you need the approval of more than one group of people to win an election.