Source: New York Post
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which steered federal funds to PBS, National Public Radio and its affiliates across the country for nearly six decades — formally shut down Monday, months after Republicans in Congress voted to strip taxpayer money from the organization. The CPB’s board of directors opted to shut down the agency completely rather than keep it in existence as a shell until a future Democratic administration could potentially reverse the cuts. “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 the organization’s president and CEO, Patricia Harrison.
