The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is Shutting Down

[Swordsmyth]

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will be laying off its staff and shutting down. CPB is the organization that provides funding to PBS and NPR and now that funding is gone.

More at:

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/08/01/the-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-is-shutting-down-n3805397

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is Shutting Down

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is shutting down after losing federal funding.

hotair.com

 

[CaptUSA]

Everything bad is bad.
Everything good is also bad.
Even is something good, it's not good enough, so it's bad.
Even if it's good, it's still bad because people might think it's good.

 

[acptulsa]

How so?

I don't think this will improve the product much because CPB was just a middleman, but I don't know of any redeeming features it might ever have had.

 

[CaptUSA]

I was told that taxpayers only funded a small portion...

 

[acptulsa]

I was told that taxpayers only funded a small portion...

...of NPR and PBS. Which in itself was probably bull, especially when you figure in the back door CIA money from all the USAID-like entities. But even so, when funding gets any kind of substantial cut, the middleman is usually the first to go.

 

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

If they shut down it goes to show that public donations is not enough. Anyone complaining should have donated to keep them on the air. Heck they could run commercials/ads if their content is worthy of an audience.

 

[Occam's Banana]

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Schrödinger's badness.

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[CCTelander]

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Good riddence.

However, haven’t PBS and NPR been superfluous for decades, considering that the entirety of the MSM have been the primary propagandists for the state for a good many decades now anyway?

Whatever. Definitely won’t be sorry to see them go. If they actually do.

 

[Snowball]

If they shut down it goes to show that public donations is not enough. Anyone complaining should have donated to keep them on the air. Heck they could run commercials/ads if their content is worthy of an audience.

It is going to begin a wind-down, but the stations are independent, and there's 1,500 of them. It will depend on the donations increasing. They have already began to increase but not enough to fund the entire CPB. Most likely, what will happen is that the CBP will maintain a skeleton staff. Layoffs of all but a few begin in September. The biggest stations are in no danger. Probably not the medium-market ones, either... but the rural stations are going to need a big uptick in donations in order to stay on air. Perhaps those can maintain their licesnses and just wait until 2026 or, more likely, 2028, before resumption of funding.

I think it's a good thing, it will show Americans again whose interest the Republicans and "Trump" truly serve. What they want, as with the lands, is to move these assets from the public domain to the Jewish oligarchs.

 

[Swordsmyth]

It is going to begin a wind-down, but the stations are independent, and there's 1,500 of them. It will depend on the donations increasing. They have already began to increase but not enough to fund the entire CPB. Most likely, what will happen is that the CBP will maintain a skeleton staff. Layoffs of all but a few begin in September. The biggest stations are in no danger. Probably not the medium-market ones, either... but the rural stations are going to need a big uptick in donations in order to stay on air. Perhaps those can maintain their licesnses and just wait until 2026 or, more likely, 2028, before resumption of funding.

I think it's a good thing, it will show Americans again whose interest the Republicans and "Trump" truly serve. What they want, as with the lands, is to move these assets from the public domain to the Jewish oligarchs.

LOL

Cry harder for your propaganda outlets, commie.

 

[Snowball]

LOL

Cry harder for your propaganda outlets, commie.

Shill harder for your hasbara bosses, Bolshevik. Trump is a pig boss from Animal Farm.

 

[CaptUSA]

What they want, as with the lands, is to move these assets from the public domain to the Jewish oligarchs.

Lol - I've got some bad news for you.

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[Swordsmyth]

Shill harder for your hasbara bosses, Bolshevik. Trump is a pig boss from Animal Farm.

LOL

You don't get to steal from taxpayers to propagandize them for the permanent left deepstate anymore.

Boo hoo!

 

[Swordsmyth]

Clearly only a fascist pig would want to put an end to that, ask @Snowball

 

[acptulsa]

You don't get to steal from taxpayers to propagandize them for the permanent left deepstate anymore.

Wake up and smell the coffee. Taxpayers buy ads on all those other channels all the time.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Wake up and smell the coffee. Taxpayers buy ads on all those other channels all the time.

That will be addressed as well.
But the biggest one has been dealt with.

 

[acptulsa]

That will be addressed as well.

Oh? You've read something? You know how? Or is this just another blandishment you pulled out of your ass?