This would have distressed me deeply as a small child. I remember begging my mother to support the local PBS phoneathon a long, long time ago. Now, all I can say is good riddance:
The non-profit charged by Congress with allocating funds to NPR, PBS and other US public radio and television stations announced it is dissolving after massive federal funding cuts under Donald Trump. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced on Monday that its board of directors had voted to dissolve the organization after nearly 60 years in operation.
Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of the CPB, said in a statement on Monday that the organization’s board of directors voted to dissolve the organization as it “faced a profound responsibility”.
She added: “CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attack.”
These people and their endless self-declared victories. It’s just so tedious and tiresome. But I hope more NGOs and corporations will protect their integrity by ending themselves.