DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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End the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

18th January 2025

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With conservatives back in power, public media is getting back to what it really excels at. No, not objective, impartial reporting. If NPR and PBS focused on that, they wouldn’t need to be so good at their side hustle: desperately lobbying Congress not to defund them.

Now that they’re good at. The lobbying efforts have worked every time conservatives have had power, going back to when President Lyndon Johnson created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the late 1960s.

Every Republican president after Johnson has tried to defund, dissolve, or reform public broadcasting. Yet the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is still standing, and NPR and PBS remain unreformed.

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