CPB is the non-profit corporation which funds NPR and PBS.
“CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority,” Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of the CPB, said in a statement Friday. “Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government.”
She continued, “In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors.’”
I disagree with that assessment. Is it craven? Absolutely. But the entire empire is craven, it only acts when it thinks it is in complete control.
However, this kind of stuff is only stupid if they are going to face any consequences for it personally. They will not, and they will be rewarded for pulling out the copper wiring of government control.