The Silence Is the Point: What Dies with Public Broadcasting

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is dead. The consequences reach far beyond television and radio.

On January 5, 2026, the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve the organization.

The vote was quiet, procedural, and barely covered by national media. There were no press conferences or public statements, no hearings or ceremony to mark the end of a public institution that had served the American people for nearly sixty years.…