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Why The Public Broadcasting Act Needs An Update To Save Local Public Media Journalism

Current | by Howard Husock

Budget Clouds Public Broadcasting Act At 50

by TVNewsCheck

President Trump’s 2018 budget proposal makes him the second president to try to kill funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the first to target the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities as well. It comes as the Public Broadcasting Act celebrates its 50th anniversary.