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NPR and PBS enter uncharted territory after historic defunding by Congress
With a late-night vote in Congress to cut PBS and NPR funding, Mitt Romney‘s vision has come to pass. During a 2012 presidential debate, the GOP nominee famously pledged to “stop the subsidy to PBS” ...
PBS, NPR face ‘tremendous changes’ and will be ‘forced to make hard decisions’ as funding cut looms
Roughly $1.1 billion of the targeted cut would defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the non-profit that supports ...
Conservatives Get the PBS and NPR Cuts They’ve Wanted for Decades
Nixon was so “disturbed” that PBS had started a new national news show with the hosts Robert MacNeil and Sander Vanocur — ...
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US Congress slashes all funding of public television and ‘Sesame Street’ as part of $9 billion in budget cuts
During the early hours of Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives definitively approved President Donald Trump’s request to ...
What’s Happening to PBS and NPR’s Federal Funding?
Early in the morning on July 18, the House voted 216–213 to pass a bill that will rescind federal funding to NPR and PBS, a ...
Prominent liberals and media figures declare cuts to PBS, NPR a ‘perilous moment’
House Republicans passed Trump's $9 billion rescissions package cutting $1 billion from public broadcasting, prompting reactions from public outlet journalists and Democrats.
Trump’s victory over PBS and NPR ‘bias’ will be ‘devastating’ for rural areas, station leaders say
Public TV stations will be “forced to make hard decisions in the weeks and months ahead,” PBS CEO Paula Kerger said Thursday, after the Senate approved a bill canceling all the federal funding for the ...
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As ‘Sesame Street' faces potential cuts, hackers deface Elmo's X account
One of Elmo's official social media accounts was hacked Sunday, leading to a series of racist and antisemitic posts before ...