CPB fires back at Trump's executive order pulling funding for NPR, PBS
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The nonprofit corporation overseeing National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service is firing back at President Donald Trump's executive order to pull funding.

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.’”

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Thanks I am going to forward this article to my local NPR station and ask them to stop saying “Donald Trump’s budget cuts are looking like they will impact us this year so your support is greatly needed” during the pledge drive they’ve been running the past 2 weeks.

    angry-place I WILL NEVER BECOME A MONTHLY CONTRIBUTOR, YOU CANNOT TEMPT ME WITH SHITTY TOTEBAGS FOR PLEDGES OF $20/MO (THAT’S LIKE 240/YEAR FOR A FUCKING NPR BRANDED COFFEE MUG, YOU’RE SHITTING ME JUST OPEN A MERCH STORE DIPSHITS) OR ‘FREE VACATIONS’ TO SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRY. MY LOCAL STATION IS SHIT THEY ONLY HAVE ONE LOCAL SHOW AND IT IS 2 HOURS OF MUSIC AT THE END OF THE WEEK??? WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING!!!