Penna Dexter

It’s about time! Last summer, Congress voted to stop funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  Last week the corporation formally disbanded.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — or CPB — was a private non-profit organization, authorized by Congress in 1967 as the funding mechanism for public radio and television. The Washington Post’s Dominic Pino says this “was part of the progressive vision of the Great Society.”

Indeed. The Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio — PBS and NPR — have long exhibited a decidedly liberal political bias and, more recently, have advanced far-left positions on most issues, including gender ideology.

Now that PBS and NPR will no longer receive government funding, their “stations will do just fine.” They fundraise through telethons and on-air messages — really ads. And they receive funds from leftist organizations, like the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations.

PBS and NPR had been receiving federal funding, through the CPB, to the tune of approximately $500,000,000 per year.

In the 60’s, when the CPB was created, there were three network television choices: CBS, NBC, and ABC. Today there are hundreds of channels available on various devices. According to The Post’s Dominic Pino, “Americans are drowning in information.” Public broadcasters air neither major sporting events nor “Top 40 pop.”  Instead, they’re “giving the people what the government believes they should want, rather than what they actually want.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, (R-GA) was a strong voice in the defund effort. At a House hearing, she told PBS and NPR’s leaders, “We believe that you all can hate us on your own dime.“

Mr. Pino points out that private donations to PBS and NPR shot up after Congress voted to defund them. They’re still free to serve the Americans who enjoy their leftist take on things.

But, without the CPB, we taxpayers are no longer required to pay for it.

Good riddance.