The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's directors voted the organization out of business Monday. The private agency, which has distributed federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of local television and radio stations across the country for more than a half-century, saw its appropriations from Co

Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967.

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.

Ruby Calvert, head of CPB’s board of directors, said the federal defunding of public media has been devastating.

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.

      • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
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        4 days ago

        A hobby farm actually makes it worse. The work is more difficult since you’re likely not buying the extremely expensive equipment that for profit farms use. Or you’re buying it used and have to sink time and/or money into repairing and maintaining it.

        I lived and worked on a hobby farm throughout high school (<2 acres), and I can guarantee you that the romanticized vision of life on a farm isn’t very accurate.

        Same with having farm animals. Baby animals are cute until their mom decides to not let them nurse and you have to bottle feed them every 2-4 hours.