Source: Reason
by Jesse Walker
“After decades of putting on a show of threatening to pull public broadcasting’s federal funds, the Republican Party changed its mindset and decided to actually do it. The rescissions package that the Senate approved in the wee hours of Thursday morning will claw back the money that Congress allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). … In the past this would be someone’s cue to bring up the fate of poor little Elmo, but these days Sesame Street has a home on Netflix anyway. And PBS and NPR themselves are sure to survive this cut. … Much of the debate about the bill has therefore focused on individual stations that receive CPB subsidies. … There are, broadly speaking, two ways to try to get by without federal support. One is to become much more commercial, and the other is to become much less commercial.”