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Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a non-public company that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public television and radio stations throughout the nation, voted Monday to dissolve the group that was created in 1967.
CPB had been winding down since Congress acted final summer time to defund its operations on the encouragement of President Donald Trump. Its board of administrators selected Monday to shutter CPB utterly as an alternative of maintaining 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,” mentioned Patricia Harrison, the group’s president and CEO.
Many Republicans have lengthy accused public broadcasting, significantly its information programming, of being biased towards liberals nevertheless it wasn’t till the second Trump administration —- with full GOP management of Congress — that these criticisms were turned into action.
Ruby Calvert, head of CPB’s board of administrators, mentioned 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 mentioned.
CPB mentioned it was financially supporting the American Archive of Public Broadcasting in its effort to protect historic content material, and is working with the University of Maryland to preserve its personal information.