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Can the incoming administration defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?

December 11, 2024

Semafor Media's long analysis of the most recent efforts to defund NPR and PBS  doesn't commit to a prediction (Will they? Won't they?) Yet, the long history of these attempts is worth reading to understand the context of the current potential legislation.  It has “been raised by Republicans and successfully batted away by public media defenders with annual regularity for decades.” After all, even the Congress is susceptible to  fame; in 1969 Mr. Rogers “convinced a congressional committee on the spot to reverse the proposed cuts.”  The question that Semafor raises, but can't answer is: will the structure of media funding and distribution in 2025  fundamentally change lawmakers' belief in the necessity of the programming that public media can provide.   

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