We need public media more than ever—it’s too precious to let Trump defund it. But to live up to its democratic promise, we must support public media to serve our needs. The US public media system is ...
Champions of the almost entirely party-line vote in the U.S. Senate to erase $1.1 billion in already approved funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting called their action a refusal to ...
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Friday that it will wind down its operations due to the successful Republican effort to defund local PBS and NPR stations across the country. The ...
For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. In 1911, voters in Los Angeles founded a newspaper. It was called the Municipal News, and proclaimed itself “Owned by ...
Journalists and umpires share a lot in common. The benefits of both jobs, at least on an armchair-psychology level, involve a mix of duty and narcissism—someone has to thanklessly call balls and ...
In 2024, the big three corporate broadcast media outlets — ABC, CBS, and NBC — have routinely failed to adequately cover the policies at stake in the 2024 election, neglecting time and again to inform ...
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 ...
The Trump administration formally requested Tuesday that Congress claw back money for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR. CPB received $525 million in federal funding in ...
The company is among the first casualties of a vote to strip roughly $500 million in federal funding from NPR, PBS and local stations across the country. By Benjamin Mullin The Corporation for Public ...
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting – which funds NPR and PBS — will shut down after the loss of federal funding, the nonprofit said on Friday The decision comes weeks after the GOP-led House of ...
Executives debated whether to allow the corporation to lie dormant after federal funding ended last year, but decided against it. By Benjamin Mullin The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which ...