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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has voted to dissolve after Republicans rescinded $1.1B at President Trump’s behest.

This ends the 58-year-old agency that distributed federal funds to NPR, PBS and more than 1,500 local public radio & television stations. apple.news/AXdo2-zPuRCiJSiIVd3… #uspol #news

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I hate this country......more and more every day...and those that let it go there.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Guys: it just means we all need to give local public media our money directly without the government middleman. Many countries do this and have solid public media journalism on par or better than PBS. Pro tip: if "news" ever has ads, it isnt news. Its an ad agency in disguise.

If you can afford to give to public media, do it, and demand journalistic excellence.

Be a citizen and a customer, not a monetized product for advertisers. This is not the end of the world you were looking for.

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I bet even Roman empire or any Greek polis had some public state funded broadcasting agency. And Republicans are so backwater sometimes! They want Chaos! And disinfo from Russia Today and Alex Johnes would face zero rebuke from anywhere except same private media who all have paywalls.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Isn't this the sort of thing that pootin has done in ruZZia.. and orban and in iran and others..

<shrug>.

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Disappointing to see them give up so easily. (And their ‘loyal’ supporters go into hiding)
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

time to ensure the PBS archives are backed up in a different country. And that actual science learning is online and made available to everyone in simple bite sized chunks.
Don't let them dumb down America.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has announced its board voted to dissolve the nearly 60-year-old organization, attributing the decision to a lack of federal funding and “sustained political attacks.” USA Today usatoday.com/story/news/nation…
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Their government funding got cut to the bone in the '80's and they became ever increasingly dependent on corporate and local business sponsorships and as a result more and more conservative in their programming.
It's not really such a loss at this juncture just a sad but inevitable end.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I literally gasped in horror while reading your toot. When will these modern middle ages end? 😭

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