Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967.

CPB had been winding down since Congress acted last summer to defund its operations at the encouragement of President Donald Trump. Its board of directors chose Monday to shutter CPB completely instead of keeping it in existence as a shell.

“CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks,” said Patricia Harrison, the organization’s president and CEO.

Ruby Calvert, head of CPB’s board of directors, said the federal defunding of public media has been devastating.

CPB said it was financially supporting the American Archive of Public Broadcasting in its effort to preserve historic content, and is working with the University of Maryland to maintain its own records.

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[–] 268 points 10 months ago (27 children)

We really are fucked. Welcome to being part of history everyone

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  • [–] 157 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    May the vengeful ghost of Fred Rogers come strangle Trump and Miller in their sleep.

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  • [–] 42 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    vengeful ghost of Fred Rogers

    Be the vengeful ghost you want to see in the world

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago

    "Hello, neighbor. Normally, I tie my shoes. Today is a special episode. Today, I'm going to tie my laces to two sticks and make the knots very tight. That's right, today we're making a garrote. To help me demonstrate how to properly use this tool, we've enlisted a very special guest, Donald Trump. To commemorate this very special occasion, I've asked my good friend, Bob Ross, to paint a happy little picture. Are you ready, Robert?"

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    And while he's strangling them, the ghost of Bob Ross comes up behind and stabs them with a paintbrush.

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    I didn't want to be part of history. I just wanted to live a simple NPC life...

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Wouldn't that be nice. Maybe own a little hobby farm.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Farming fucking sucks, don't fall for the trap.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

    You'll notice the word hobby there. I don't want to farm for the purpose of trading my labour and produce for money

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    A hobby farm actually makes it worse. The work is more difficult since you're likely not buying the extremely expensive equipment that for profit farms use. Or you're buying it used and have to sink time and/or money into repairing and maintaining it.

    I lived and worked on a hobby farm throughout high school (<2 acres), and I can guarantee you that the romanticized vision of life on a farm isn't very accurate.

    Same with having farm animals. Baby animals are cute until their mom decides to not let them nurse and you have to bottle feed them every 2-4 hours.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    My mom "farms" her backyard and she's perfectly happy doing it all by hand and then making a salad out of whatever grows there

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    We were always part of history.

    This is a stupid attitude.

    You don't get to choose your time, you get to choose what you do with it.

    Start punching the fascists in the dick

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