The leader of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting slammed President Trump’s budget request for fiscal year 2019, which calls for the eventual elimination of federal funding for the agency that supports public radio and TV, including PBS and NPR.
“Americans place great value on having universal access to public media’s educational and informational programming and services, provided commercial free and free of charge,” Patricia Harrison, CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, said Monday. “Since there is no viable substitute for federal funding that would ensure this valued service continues, the elimination of federal funding to CPB would at first devastate, and then ultimately destroy public media’s ability to provide early childhood content, life-saving emergency alerts, and public affairs programs.”
