https://apnews.com/article/public-broadcasting-defunding-pbs-npr-94708ffb8313d4811fa6ca199fe454ad
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a cornerstone of American culture for three generations, announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by Congress — marking the end of a nearly six-decade era in which it fueled the production of renowned educational programming, cultural content and even emergency alerts.
The demise of the corporation, known as CPB, is a direct result of President Donald Trump’s targeting of public media, which he has repeatedly said is spreading political and cultural views antithetical to those the United States should be espousing. The closure is expected to have a profound impact on the journalistic and cultural landscape — in particular, public radio and TV stations in small communities across the United States.
CPB helps fund both PBS and NPR, but most of its funding is distributed to more than 1,500 local public radio and television stations around the country.
The corporation also has deep ties to much of the nation’s most familiar programming, from NPR’s “All Things Considered” to, historically, “Sesame Street,” “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and the documentaries of Ken Burns.
The corporation said its end, 58 years after being signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, would come in an “orderly wind-down.” In a statement, it said the decision came after the passage through Congress of a package that clawed back its funding for the next two budget years — about $1.1 billion. Then, the Senate Appropriations Committee reinforced that policy change Thursday by excluding funding for the corporation for the first time in more than 50 years as part of a broader spending bill.
“Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said Patricia Harrison, the corporation’s president and CEO.
A last-gasp attempt at funding fails
Democratic members of the Senate Appropriations Committee made a last-ditch effort this week to save the CBP’s funding.
As part of Thursday’s committee deliberations, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., authored but then withdrew an amendment to restore CPB funding for the coming budget year. She said she still believed there was a path forward “to fix this before there are devastating consequences for public radio and television stations across the country.”
“It’s hard to believe we’ve ended up in the situation we’re in,” she said. “And I’m going to continue to work with my colleagues to fix it.”
But Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., sounded a less optimistic tone.
“I understand your concerns, but we all know we litigated this two weeks ago,” Capito said. “Adopting this amendment would have been contrary to what we have already voted on.”
CPB said it informed employees Friday that most staff positions will end with the fiscal year on Sept. 30. It said a small transition team will stay in place until January to finish any remaining work — including, it said, “ensuring continuity for music rights and royalties that remain essential to the public media system.”
“Public media has been one of the most trusted institutions in American life, providing educational opportunity, emergency alerts, civil discourse, and cultural connection to every corner of the country,” Harrison said. “We are deeply grateful to our partners across the system for their resilience, leadership, and unwavering dedication to serving the American people.”
The impact will be widespread
NPR stations use millions of dollars in federal money to pay music licensing fees. Now, many will have to renegotiate these deals. That could impact, in particular, outlets that build their programming around music discovery. NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher estimated recently, for example, that some 96% of all classical music broadcast in the United States is on public radio stations.
Federal money for public radio and television has traditionally been appropriated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes it to NPR and PBS. Roughly 70% of the money goes directly to the 330 PBS and 246 NPR stations across the country, although that’s only a shorthand way to describe its potential impact.
Trump, who has called the CPB a “monstrosity,” has long said that public broadcasting displays an extreme liberal bias, helped create the momentum in recent months for an anti-public broadcasting groundswell among his supporters in Congress and around the country. It is part of a larger initiative in which he has targeted institutions — particularly cultural ones — that produce content or espouse attitudes that he considers “un-American.” The CPB’s demise represents a political victory for those efforts.
His impact on the media landscape has been profound. He has also gone after U.S. government media that had independence charters, including the venerable Voice of America, ending that media outlet’s operations after many decades.
Trump also fired three members of the corporation’s board of directors in April. In legal action at the time, the fired directors said their dismissal was governmental overreach targeting an entity whose charter guarantees it independence.
>pull funding from agencies which spread lefty propaganda
>PBS goes down the shitter
lmao
>>1423915You don't sound like someone who solves problems.
>>1423911 (OP)Jesus christ.
He really is just destroying everything. I don't think that sunk in for me until now.
>>1423918They are teaching kids about trannies and gay pride anon. Before that they were advocating for BLM.
PBS was good when Mister Rogers was around. Not after that.
>>1423922No retard, it killed PBS. It was a slow suicide by libshits trying to hijack an existing cultural movement to turn it into political messaging.
These people deserve to be deported.
>>1423923You people make everything political. Everything. That's why you consider every message you don't like propaganda.
CBS didn't kill itself, it was murdered by people like you. People who look at a staple of American media for 60 fucking years and think it's not American.
>>1423911 (OP)usaid corruption shut down suddenly all the propagandist cancer dies lmao
>>1423924Mister Rogers was a staple. Elmo telling kids that anarchism is a good thing, actually, is a subversive plot by leftists to complete the long march through the institutions.
>>1423928Please post a clip of Elmo telling kid that anarchism is a a good thing.
>>1423925Has nothing to do with USAID. The CPB is a separate program Congress defunded.
>>1423921>They are teaching kids about tranniesWhere? Surely there must be a bunch of footage online?
>>1423919>NOOOOOOO not my government-funded leftwing propaganda outlet!>>1423922and now the funding has been pulled.
>>1423922Remember this the next time they say they're not targeting children.
>>1423957Wow, you'd think that if that was happening on public TV someone would have proof or a clip or something to back up an obviously brain damaged statement like yours
But we all know you can't back up your melty with evidence, and we all know you secretly don't believe your horseshit and are a secret trans ally.
>>1423957Oh so you're completely delusional. Got it.
>>1423959Well here's something I just googled real quick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5u4cBaZpdM
>>1423962>Public TV>Youtube videoAlso allow me to point out this is from their news section, AKA not what kids are watching.
>>1423959He's right, the gay episode was released in 2021, titled "Family Day"
>>1423964Well, come on then dickhead, you have a source or not?
We both know PBS never produced the shit your schizo brain is hallucinating
>>1423965The year, date, and name is enough of a citation that even substandard retards can Google it
Since you don't even have the mental capacity to type in "2021 sesame Street family day" into a search engine and educate yourself, I'll help you out. Must suck being as cripplingly mentally disabled as you are
https://www.10tv.com/article/news/nation-world/sesame-street-gay-dads/507-207ad7e0-3494-4c76-a7e7-727c9807e66b
>>1423969So you don't have a source?
You claimed
>we're just teaching kids who don't know what the color blue is about gay sex and how they're the wrong genderThere's nothing in your link about gay sex and that children are the wrong gender.
So wheres your schizo source? Or are you just going to complain and melt down that reality doesn't match your schizo delusions again?
>>1423970I only told you there was a so called gay episode and I proved it to you.
If you want to debate the other anon about gay sex, please reply to him not me
>>1423971So you're choosing complaining and melting down
Oh well, I'll accept your concession
>>1423969Ok so
>No gay sex>Not even any talk of gender identity>No tutorials for eitherYou're deluded and talking out your own ass. That was clear before but now hard confirmed. Got it.
>>1423974>Not even any talk of gender identityThe episode about gender identity was "Dress Me Up Club" which aired in 2016.
Wow you are all over the place with your strawmen.
>>1423991>Episode is about them telling a girl she can also dress up as a superhero if she wants to playThis sounds more like a gender role thing, and if you think this is "inappropriate for kids", you genuinely need mental help.
>>1423963And this shit is why no one listens to your petulant demands for a $0uR©3?!!!11??
Everytime one is spoonfed to you you pretend it's not applicable and start gaslighting.
>>1423994I listen to him because he's right. You're exaggerating and taking things out of context for partisan political reasons.
>>1423996Jesus christ of all the things to bitch about
Sesame Street is a woke liberal indoctrination children's program. Twitter has shown that Elmo is a white nationalist, and he was made to say all that woke BS
>>1423954Kids should not know what sex is
>>1424039It's not up to you to decide that
>>1424039You can talk about gay people and trannies without making it sexual.
>>1423954>real things that existhow are they teaching it? Are they teaching "There are delusional mentally ill men who think they can somehow become women even though this is obviously impossible" or are they teaching "men can magically become real women!!!"
because only one of those actually exists in this world.
>>1424040apparently it is because I just got what I voted for lmao if you want to teach your kids that magic is a real thing that exists go ahead but you can't steal my tax dollars to teach it to everybody's children anymore. Just like you can't steal my tax dollars to lie about the BLM riots or lie about Rittenhouse or cover up the Hunter laptop story.
>>14240391. There is an age where kids have to learn what sex is. That's a part of growing up.
2. PBS didn't have shit about sex, you just keep pretending any mention of LGBT topics automatically include sex, even though that would also mean any depiction of ANY couple would mean they're being taught about sex.
>>1424047See, if you'd learn what a transgender person was you wouldn't be strawmaning as hard as you are. You are proof of a failing education system.
The irony is, you keep bitching about this topic so hard your kids are going to learn more about it from that than they are from PBS. Every rant about trannies is gonna make them curious as to what the fuck you're talking about, and from there it's only a matter of time till they get that education and realize how fucking insane you are to be this upset about how someone else treats their own body.
>>1424040This. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is the authority on this matter.
>>1424052>you keep bitching about this topic so hard your kids are going to learn more about it from that than they are from PBSAre you implying that PBS should teach children about troons and not their own parents?
Lmao, gtfo out of here
>>1424052>if you'd learn what a transgender person wasokay then please why don't you """educate""" me? What is your definition of a transwoman that is not either
>delusional mentally ill men who think they can somehow become women even though this is obviously impossibleor
>men can magically become real women!!!go ahead
>>1424055Yeah ok you made a dumb argument and now you can't back out of it
>>1424057>What is your definition of a transwomanThey are beautiful and brave people
>>1424060esl and a fucking retard. i feel sorry for your mother
>>1424063No need for a melty just cause you made a bad argument
>>1424064is this your new default when you get made fun of, stupid faggot? next time use english and i won't have an opportunity to laugh at your misfortune
>>1424079Because transgenderism is a mental illness.
"Men can become women" isn't just a harmless thing to tell kids, it's a complete rejection of biological reality and the cultural norms cemented upon them.
The only thing more worrying than trannies, though, is the sheer amount of democrats who think they're entitled to have more parental rights than the parents of children themselves; that they have the right to mold the minds of other people's children into something more preferable to them on a purely ideological basis.
These people are dangerous and predatory. They need to be excluded from any sort of position of power where they can shape popculture.
>>1424084Pronouns and gender roles are both social constructs. Stay mad.
>>1424084You’re giving an excellent argument of why you, at least, shouldn’t be allowed to teach children.
>>1424069Take a deep breath and try coming back when you're done with your melty
>>1424084>The only thing more worrying than trannies, though, is the sheer amount of democrats who think they're entitled to have more parental rights than the parents of children themselves; that they have the right to mold the minds of other people's children into something more preferable to them on a purely ideological basis.That you're this scared about basic education about things that do in fact exist in this world is a sign of why you shouldn't be allowed near kids.
>>1424087>Pronouns and gender roles are both social constructsLol. Pronouns are language not social constructs. Gender roles are social constructs. And bring male or female is biological.
>>1424097>Pronouns are language not social constructs.This is gonna blow your mind but you're not gonna believe what language is.
Also sex and gender are separate.
>>1424091They already got absolutely BTFO earlier after they posted a study that showed that you can't gaslight kids into believing they're another gender.
He had a literal full on melty when it was shown what they were actually arguing
So they already know that the whole 'lefists are turning our kids into trannys' thing is absolute bullshit, and they'll dodge anything to damage their shakey belief further because they know they're on the cusp of being a trans ally
>>1424090isn't it sad that you're so shrill and irritating that i'm making fun of you for your mental illness. i would never to that to anyone with a shred of decency. die a faggot
They loved identity politics when they their identity politics were in power. Fuck em
>>1423924>You people make everything political. Everything. That's why you consider every message you don't like propaganda.I'm going to assume this is bait, because it's not possible to have a negative amount of self awareness
>>1424105you love being called a faggot
>>1423924>muh legacy!Everything ages and dies, anon. Usually it's ugly near the end, too.
>>1424153No the ones who made it political were the retards in their marketing department talking about "great jeans passing along eye and hair color" to a blonde haired blue eyed woman. And then made it even more political by refusing to acknowledge "hey we didn't think through the implication here, our bad" and instead doubling down.
>>1424154Why do you hate white people? Why don't you think they can have good genes just like anyone else can?
>>1424155>Guys we just accidentally made something that seems like white supremacist propaganda, should we admit we fucked up>Nah double down, surely this won't invite even more controversy If they'd just acknowledged it looked bad and was an accident they would've been fine. At this point they deserve the backlash for their retardation alone.
>>1424157>something that seems like white supremacist propagandaYou people have overused this accusation to the point of it being meaningless.
>>1424091>do in fact existsee
>>1424047>>1424099>BTFOthere are two threads in the catalog right now where you have been asked the following questions:
1) Show the evidence that biological human males can transform into biological human females
2) Show the evidence that FtM win men's sports just as often as MtF win women's sports
The only response we've gotten is that it's our job to debunk the evidence that literally doesn't exist because every single one of you is an NPC who is incapable of forming an opinion based on actual evidence and instead just repeat whatever PBS or NPR told you.
>>1424159The fact you keep complaining about trannies is a sign they exist you fucking retard. You're strawmanning more than the fucking wizard of oz.
>>1424154No the retards were faggots like you who are so MIND-NUMBINGLY RETARDED that you seriously had to ask "Is Sweeney a Nazi?"
You have ZERO right to bitch about other people making everything political. You are the biggest fucking hypocrite on 4chan. You should probably find a sturdy rope and hang yourself tonight.
>>1424158>>1424162>No no it was just talking about how great the genes of a blonde haired blue eyed woman was>How could anyone POSSIBLY take this the wrong way?Pretty sure if you submitted this to a marketing class they'd tell you to rethink it.
>>1424157>If they'd just acknowledged it looked bad and was an accident they would've been fine.Which never fucking works. Anytime someone does this you double-down and push even harder until someone gets fired, gets sued, gets arrested, etc.
Example: Go back 20 something years to Don Imus and how apologizing and going on Al Sharpton's radio show made things even worse.
The lesson: Never apologize to these people. Ignore them.
>>1424160you keep dodging the question because you're such an NPC you don't even know how to read or think.
>trannies existit depends on what the definition of "tranny" is which has been explained to you repeatedly but you ignore it because again you're a braindead NPC. How are you defining "tranny"?
Is a "tranny" a delusional mentally ill men who thinks he can somehow become a woman even though this is obviously impossible? Or is a "tranny" a man who does in fact magically transform into a woman?
Whether trannies exist depends on how you define "tranny." That first definition of tranny obviously exists, the second one doesn't. You're too stupid to understand the difference.
>>1424163>how great the genes of a blonde haired blue eyed woman wasYeah, because she's very pretty. That's literally the entire ad message.
You're so afraid of white people that someone saying 'I have great genes' is immediately interpreted as an advocacy for white supremacy.
>>1424163>Pretty sure if you submitted this to a marketing class they'd tell you to rethink it.Because we can't have any kind of humor in commercials now that sensitive faggots like you can express your outrage on social media. So while the rest of the world full of normal people would've given a slight chuckle and moved on, victim faggots like you turned a nothing-burger into a thousand four-hour long political debates on youtube.
>>1424164>Which never fucking works. Anytime someone does this you double-down and push even harder until someone gets fired, gets sued, gets arrested, etc.There have been plenty of ads that were just retarded and got pulled, and the only impact they had on their companies were people being like "lol remember that time they made that fuckass ad?"
By doubling down you've now associated your brand with the controversy for the foreseeable future. Which doesn't do very well when your stock price is already severely down compared to a year ago.
And the best part about this is the people outraged about Sweeney right now get even more outraged when you point out that time Beyonce did the same commercial with blonde hair.
>>1424166>You're so afraid of white people that someone saying 'I have great genes'Personally I think a "great genes" pun is retarded for marketing because the first thing people think of when they hear genetic praise is eugenics. Now it's bitten them in the ass.
>>1424169And I can think of countless other examples where someone went on the liberal apology tour and lost more than they would if they just shut up. For fuck sake, you assclowns are going after some gym bro on youtube right now because he said RIP Hulk Hogan. Holy shit, and you're here saying WE make everything political?!?! Nigga get the fuck out!
>>1424167It wasn't even that good of a pun anon. And as we can see, the average person's first reaction was "wait is this advocating like eugenics or something?" hence why there was a controversy in the first place. You can't argue that "well most people wouldn't have an issue with it" when the controversy started as soon as the ad started playing.
>>1424170This is part of why they should've just pulled the ad and admitted it was taken the wrong way. Instead they doubled down and now they're being associated with eugenics.
>>1424172>first thing people think of when they hear genetic praise is eugenicsWomen are literally the single greatest practitioners of eugenics in human history. They literally get to control which men are allowed to reproduce based on their features, wealth and social status.
None of this would be an issue if leftists weren't a bunch of spiteful mutants.
>>1424173>And I can think of countless other examples where someone went on the liberal apology tour and lost more than they would if they just shut up.Such as?
Also, the funny part is there's a pretty sharp difference between personal apologies and corporate. A person will say something controversial and people will still think "well they wouldn't have said those things if they didn't believe it. The apology is purely performative". A corporation will say "We fucked up on an ad" and people will just assume "oh some retard in marketing got fired".
>>1424174>You can't argue that "well most people wouldn't have an issue with it"Oh yes I fucking can. Nobody gives a fuck about this except for fat libtard women with purple hair, half-shaved off, who spend the rest of their lives looking for attention.
And faggots like you who support them.
>and now they're being associated with eugenics.By retards. Because you dumb fucks seriously think a jean company is promoting nazi propaganda.
>>1424175Annnd there's the incel side showing.
She's not gonna fuck you bro.
>>1424176>Such as?I just gave you one, you blind faggot. Tell me what the fuck did Joey Swoll do that was so bad that he needed to get cancel-cultured by subhumans like you?
Go ahead I'll wait.
>>1424178>incelNigger, you're not getting sex unless a woman lets you have sex. That's not a controversial statement. Neither is saying that ugly, stupid people don't get laid.
>>1424179Joey's getting shit because he failed to recognize that Hogan was pretty despised in his own field long before he died. Like even without all the racism, the guy stopped the WWE from unionizing and a lot of his fellow old talents hated him for being a general shithead.
>>1424181And there it is. Golf-clap for this faggot.
>>1424182>>1424183Literally the only "political" thing about it is that Hogan supported Trump. Most of the reasons people hate Hogan are non-political.
>>1424182Was it political when Andre the Giant also said he hated Hogan?
>>1424184>Literally the only "political" thing about it is that Hogan supported Trump.That's enough for most liberals to ruin someone's life.
People who perpetuate struggle sessions deserve to be hunted for sport.
>>1424184>>1424185I'm pretty sure this Mr. Swoll guy didn't know any of that shit, or so he claimed in his apology video - THAT MADE THINGS WORSE FOR HIM.
So once again: don't apologize to these faggots. Ignore them. Let them seethe. Don't be like Joey Swoll and lose even more to this mob of faggots OVER A FUCKING RIP POST FOR A OLD CELEB DYING.
For those who are confused about the antipathy for PBS and NPR, here is the NPR CEO being exposed in front of congress:
https://youtu.be/yZjK7OdVi6U?si=y1X2VTfFktbktvGyhttps://youtu.be/yZjK7OdVi6U?si=y1X2VTfFktbktvGy
Play it at 1.25x and it's just 4 minutes. Let it become real to you that evil people are in charge of these organizations and their programming and you'll understand why we celebrate them being eliminated.
>>1424188>si=Remove the tracking link.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjK7OdVi6U
>>1424188>hates fitness>wants reparations >hates white peopleThese people need to be removed from any sort of institutional position.
>>1424190It honestly feels like a shit test. "How much can we get away with before they stop complaining and totally freak out?" And I think they found their answer. It's hard to believe that some of the programming that I've seen on PBS over the last decade was made earnestly, with good intentions.
>>1424188>>1424189>>1424190>>1424191Good video. Glad thes goons are gone from their positions of influence
>>1424151Oh, believe me, I know. I'm watching that happen with this country in real time.
>>1424153What the fuck are you talking about?
I was suspicious of her anti-white vibe so I Googled "Katherine Maher Husband". Can't upload images here but, if you suspected that she seemed a bit anti-white male, then your instinct was sound.
>>1424206>What the fuck are you talking about?Anon how is it that at least three other posters on this dead board know what the fuck I'm talking about, but you're that one guy who can't use google?
>>1424208nobody buys it when you talk to yourself, shill anon. oh, and you're a faggot
>>1423911 (OP)The conservative mods on this board cancelled the image as well. I'm not surprised.
>>1423921I'm glad the two things you're proud of are being born white and being heterosexual. excellent display of your inherent skill and worth to the world.
I'm guessing you're also proud about being born into the one true religion, instead of the insane cultists of the other so-called faiths.
Consider putting down your basket of lead paint chips, bucko.
>>1424261NTA, just how big of a strawman do you want to build there?
>>1423911 (OP)He did once visit our class and we all booed him away, he did vow upon blood to take Kermit down. Makes me wonder who really is green.
>>1424264An Yuge un, luv. Poca piggies, me cock bat for then gaping ladies, he he. And sha teef come at.
>>1423962Why should your voice be the only one allowed on that topic?
Why are you trying to censor alternative perspectives? https://freespeechproject.georgetown.edu/tracker-entries/trump-administration-restricts-use-of-words-considered-woke/
>>1423928Anon, I would LOVE to see Anarcho-Elmo.
>>1424039Anon, basic sex education (at early ages largely being "this is what your genitals are, this is their names, nobody but you gets to touch them") is a key factor in detecting childhood sexual abuse. Do you really want to help paedophiles get away with it?
Anonymity means I can say it: I don't have the money to purchase high-end whiskeys. I'm non-social enough that I don't take advantage of invitations, and I hate life enough not to earn a good wage.
I'd be curious to hear any of you anons talk about how expensive whiskeys (above $100/750mL) and bourbons compare to Wild Turkey 101, Old Grand Dad 114, Dickel 12 year BiB. I also enjoy Evan Willams BiB and Woodford Reserve Double Oaked.
What am I missing out on?
I'll bite, how does this help me?
>>1423922At school where kids grow up feeling out of touch from their traditional upbringing. Where online spaces expect you to act without the help of God. Where colleges and universities resemble sodomy
