The sky is falling! The sky is falling! – Chicken Little I honestly don’t know how many more times I have to write this story. First Trump proposes an interim […]
Congress Preserves the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, For Now
In a slap to the face of President Trump, a bipartisan Omnibus Appropriations bill was passed out of committee on Monday, May 1 and, among other things, preserves funding levels […]
Proposed Budget Cuts Put Public Media on the Chopping Block
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Public Broadcasting act. Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act into law, saying: It announces to the world that […]
Public Broadcasting Pioneer Ward Chamberlin dies at 95
Ward Chamberlin, Jr. — one of the founders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio — died late last February. He was 95 years […]
Oval Office: Funding for Noncommercial Media Under Attack
According to a document uncovered by The New York Times, Trump’s new budget director, former Representative Mick Mulvaney has proposed eliminating all funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In […]
