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.
We really are fucked. Welcome to being part of history everyone
May the vengeful ghost of Fred Rogers come strangle Trump and Miller in their sleep.
welcome to class war
True
Yes, fuck the kids in particular, sort of a theme with Trump
In archaeology, you can peg the beginning of an empire’s end when it stops building public architecture, whether it’s art or infrastructure (equal to spending on the public). Once the government stops giving back to the populace, it’s over.
Separate and complex discussion defining “empire” in archaeology without written records, so I am just referring to a particular geographic center exerting cultural and economic influence on its neighbors.
Stop public spending. People move out. Economy declines. Some other political center rises to prominence.
Obviously there are a ton of other factors affecting this, but it’s a broad-brush pattern seen repeated over thousands of years.
