What Corp. for Public Broadcasting Shutdown Means For NPR, PBS
(Time) The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Friday that it would begin winding down its operations after President Donald Trump rescinded $1.1 billion in funding for the nonprofit, which for decades has helped sustain NPR, PBS, and hundreds of local public media stations across the country.
Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations, CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison said in a statement. She added that the organization would work to support its partners during the transition with transparency and care.
The loss of federal support, enacted as part of a broader $9 billion rescissions package signed by Trump in July, will not bring an immediate end to national programming like PBS NewsHour or NPRs Morning Edition. But the decision is expected to pose serious challenges to the network of smaller, often rural public broadcasters that have long depended on CPB funding for their survival.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/corp-public-broadcasting-shutdown-means-201012891.html

Easterncedar
(4,899 posts)usonian
(20,329 posts)NPR has a button that lets you donate to the national organization, not just what it thinks is your local station (which you can change)
PBS always selects what it detects is your local station, or lets you change the station (pun unintended).
gab13by13
(29,736 posts)"The negative impact of the law cannot be overstated. The law, which was the first major reform of telecommunications policy since 1934, according to media scholar Robert McChesney, is widely considered to be one of the three or four most important federal laws of this generation. The act dramatically reduced important Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations on cross ownership, and allowed giant corporations to buy up thousands of media outlets across the country, increasing their monopoly on the flow of information in the United States and around the world."
Never have so many been held incommunicado by so few, said Eduardo Galeano, the Latin American journalist, in response to the act."
"Twenty years later the devastating impact of the legislation is undeniable: About 90 percent of the countrys major media companies are owned by six corporations. Bill Clintons legacy in empowering the consolidation of corporate media is right up there with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and welfare reform, as being among the most tragic and destructive policies of his administration."
https://truthout.org/articles/democracy-in-peril-twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-under-the-telecommunications-act/