President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to eliminate public funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, targeting NPR and PBS as 'radical, woke propaganda.' CPB's president Patricia Harrison argues that the organization is protected by law from presidential control. The move could provoke legal battles as NPR and PBS offer critical programming that informs the public, a principle NPR emphasizes is vital for democracy. This decision raises significant concerns about the future of public broadcasting in America.
"In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any... control over educational television or radio broadcasting."
"America's founders knew that an informed public is essential to a functioning democracy, and that commitment to serve an informed public is the heart of NPR's mission."
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