On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the Trump Administration’s devastating and targeted cuts to public media. On Friday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which has long helped sustain NPR, PBS, and hundreds of local public media stations, announced that it was shutting down after Congress rescinded $1.1 billion in federal funding for the nonprofit.

Though Trump has long targeted public media institutions for being ideologically biased, these cuts will pose a serious challenge to the survival of small, rural public broadcasting stations who receive much of their funding through CPB and serve as a vital lifeline in communities across the U.S. And, with the cancellation of numerous federal grants on proposals said to no longer be aligned with “agency priorities,” access to

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