The Silence Is Coming: What Happens When Public Media Dies
As the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutters, what remains for vulnerable people in information deserts?
On August 1, 2025, something quiet, but seismic, happened in America.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the federally funded nonprofit that supported nearly every PBS and NPR station in the country, announced it was shutting down. After nearly six decades, its funding was rescinded by Congress, pushed by the Trump administration, and backed …
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