National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) have been plunged into crisis after the body that provides their funds confirmed it was closing.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday it was winding down operations shortly after the Trump administration ended federal funding for both broadcasters – bowing to an executive order from the president in the process.
The order, signed on May 1, had demanded the private broadcasting corporation responsible for funneling federal funding from Congress to the two firms, ‘cancel existing direct funding to the maximum extent allowed by law.’
It also stated that NPR and PBS regularly produce ‘biased and partisan news coverage’.
THE CBP informed its roughly 100 staffers Friday that the majority of staff positions will end on September 1, a day before the deadline disclaimed in Donald Trump’s executive order.
Patricia Harrison, the president and CEO of the company, lamented the looming loss of the company in a statement, saying it comes ‘despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB.’
National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) have been plunged into a crisis after the body that provides their funds announced it was closing.
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