Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations
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#2When I was a teenager in the 90s an old guy took me aside and told me there'd be a day we get rid of public radio, and a day we'd have our final serving of affordable tuna sushi, and that after that, I'd be living in what he deemed the future.
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#3Does this mean the end of PBS?
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#4Does this mean the end of PBS?
No, but it means the end of financial support for many programs on PBS and NPR.
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#5Does this mean the end of PBS?
No idea. Anyone have a good source of how much of PBS's funding comes from CPB?
Update: Just confirmed, no. Federal funds only makes up 15% of PBS's funding. [1]
1: https://foundation.pbs.org/ways-to-give/gifts-to-the-pbs-end...
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#6Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World" was so prescient. So sad to see its worst predictions come true.
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#7When I was a teenager in the 90s an old guy took me aside and told me there'd be a day we get rid of public radio, and a day we'd have our final serving of affordable tuna sushi, and that after that, I'd be living in what he deemed the future. One down.
Hate to say it, but... username checks out, I guess
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#8Does this mean the end of PBS?
For the last twenty years PBS proponents have been telling me that PBS and NPR are mostly member supported, and that the Federal funds couldn't corrupt the messaging because there just wasn't enough of it to matter.
So if that's true, I guess not. If it was actually a mouthpiece, I guess so
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#9Unbelievable!
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#10Does this mean the end of PBS?
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