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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.
Many Republicans have long accused public broadcasting,
particularly its news programming, of being biased toward
liberals but it wasn't until the second Trump administration —-
with full GOP control of Congress — that those criticisms were
turned into action.
Ruby Calvert, head of CPB's board of directors, said 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
said.
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.
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