Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Shut Down After Funding Cuts
“without the resources to fulfill its congressionally mandated responsibilities, maintaining the corporation as a nonfunctional entity would not serve the public interest or advance the goals of public media”
If you remember the 2012 presidential election, you may recall Democrats accusing Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan of wanting to kill Big Bird. Well, Trump finally got the job done. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports PBS and NPR, has voted to close itself down after funding cuts.
As a member of Generation X who grew up watching Sesame Street, I am fine with this. The show used to be about teaching reading and math and would sometimes take on social issues, but did so in a broad, respectful way. In recent years, these networks embraced wokeness. They did this to themselves.
NBC News reports:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting is officially shutting down months after GOP funding cuts
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which helped fund NPR, PBS and many local radio and TV stations — is officially shutting down, months after Congress passed spending cuts that stripped it of more than $1 billion in funding.
CPB’s board of directors voted to dissolve the private, nonprofit corporation after 58 years of service, the organization announced in a news release Monday.
“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,” said Patricia Harrison, CPB’s president and CEO.
Harrison added that when President Donald Trump signed into law last summer a measure to rescind funding by Congress, CPB’s board “faced a profound responsibility: 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.”
CPB said its leaders determined that “without the resources to fulfill its congressionally mandated responsibilities, maintaining the corporation as a nonfunctional entity would not serve the public interest or advance the goals of public media.”
More from CNN:
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.
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.
Here’s a video report from the Washington Examiner:
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Well …bye.
58 years too late.
Now, do Dept. of Ed and Amtrak.
Okay, with CPB shut down, the only ones remaining to advance the left’s agenda are CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, academia, publishers, wall street, Hollywood, CCP and EU. I may have missed a few, but you get the picture.
The point isn’t to silence our opposition. They get to speak and be wrong. But I don’t want them doing it with my tax money. And most, if not all, of those entities you listed are losing tons of money because they keep pushing the left wing view.
And many of them are slowly being eradicated. MSTDS is is now MA blah blah blah. Soon to disappear.
Without the cable support, many will continue to cease to exist.
Like a dinosaur, it’s dead but the brain hasn’t got the message yet.
Aloha
As I recall, HBO own Sesame Street and has for years. Disney owns the Muppets, which must make for some tense moments for Kermit.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!
What a way to celebrate Orthodox Christmas!!!
Sesame Street is for punks. Give me Captain Kangaroo anyday.
Oh, yeah?!? I’m one of Sheriff John’s Lunch Brigaders!
/KTTV Los Angeles 1950s
Yep, I never watched Sesame Street. But Captain Kangaroo every day.
When I was stationed in Okinawa, many of the children of my shipmates watched SS on Japanese channels and many picked up quite a bit of Japanese in the process.
Salty Brine, FTW.
“Brush your teeth and say your prayers! Say g’night Jeff!”
“Arf! Arf!”
Soros will buy up a lot of the stations to continue his propaganda network.
Still gotta get a broadcast license which isn’t guaranteed.
That could be one demonrat election theft away.
Don’t need a broadcast license if you go strictly as an online streaming service and don’t broadcast anything over the airwaves.
“Trusted news”. LOL.
Okay now go get a real job instead of grifting off the American taxpayer.
I was under the impression that that the govt, us, only funded them 1%
What’s up with this?
What happened to ‘government funding is only a small fraction of their budget’?
Just like every other public/private ‘partnership’ and nearly every NGO/Charity receiving Federal funding those federal taxpayer dollars sustain the organization. The only practical solution to end scamming is to end the disbursement of federal taxpayer dollars to ALL NGO, Charities and public/private ‘partnership’. The next step is to remove all favorable tax status from these organizations and yes that includes religious groups, many of which have been taken over and politicized by leftist wokiestas. This does several good things. First it removes the monetary incentive and replaces it with pure motives of altruism and personal commitment to give. Second it requires more scrutiny of their account books as they don’t have the same ‘but we’re a tax free non profit/charity’ bubble of presumptive goodness in a PR or hesitation to run an audit sense. Third the combo of removing federal funds and the spectre of more IRS scrutiny will drive many bad actors to new scams.
Sadly, that’s the only solution. I don’t know who to quote on this:
Erioc Hoffer:
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” From The Temper of our Time, via GoodReads
The indispensable IowaHaw:
“1 Identify a respected institution
2 Kill it.
3 gut it
4 Wear it’s carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.”
I don’t recall the author:
“There is no such thing as a governement-funded NGO.”
My own self:
“There is nothing so crisp, clean, direct and worthy that it won’t be captured for other ends, if they can.”
Once something’s operating, getting a seat at the trough becomes its own, then the only goal. It’s bears at a salmon run, not making fat salmon fat, n run. Where’s the fat salmon come from? Why worry: it’s just a free fact of nature. Or when confronted: Oh, you’ll figure it out.
Big piles of money attract grifters … because big piles make grifting worthwhile.
Oh, that’s a simple answer. They lied. That is all.
I see they’re still running with the fantasy that “rural Americans” and various po’ folks only have 3 OTA networks, and public broadcasting fills an important role in educating and informing those poor benighted rural creatures.
Yeah I agree. The really funny part is how often these cosmopolitan sorts from bi-coastal metros have a totally misinformed viewpoint about the rest of the Nation. These self perceived sophisticated urban ‘elite’ are often very provincial in their understanding of the wider Nation outside their bubble.
I don’t know how to send a link of a picture found in a search engine so won’t even try. Your comment brings to mind that New Yorker map of the US where there is NYC in the foreground, the Hudson River, a gap with virtually nothing in it, and then the west coast with a few rock formations sticking up.
Let’s see if this works.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Steinberg_New_Yorker_Cover.png
DEI bitch, DEI!!!!!!
Ooooops! DIE!!
We are long past Square 1, the Electric Company, and I doubt Mr. Rogers would be able to get a show there any more.
So the President can’t dissolve the Department of Propaganda without the tedious approval of Congress… but they can dissolve themselves with just an intramural vote? It’s like Roberts Rules of Order meets Harry Potter!
Corporateous deleteous?
…because it is critical to our children’s
educationmiseducation…FIFY
Good, they obviously didn’t offer a product that anyone was going to pay their own money for.
But, but, but….I distinctly remember being assured that tax money was only a small part of their operating budget.
Why would losing that tax money cause them to close down?
George? Get out your checkbook.
let ms now fund them
gop looking to lose races now b/c they want to return to rionism!!??
we must stop the made up laws that allow non citizens to participate in voting…at any level local etc
No more Corporation for Public Broadcasting???
“Sunny day, sweepin’ the clouds away!!!”
CPB, acting as a mouthpiece for the DNC, communist party, WEF, and Operation Mockingbird did “not serve the public interest or advance the goals of public media”
Essay by long time NPR editor URI Berliner on outlet bias
https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust
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