by Kerry Dougherty

On Friday some happy-but-not-unexpected news broke: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is about to go kaput.

It’s on life support for two more months.

That’s because Congress defunded the body that awards public funds to National Public Radio and the Pubic Broadcasting Service. The left-wing non-profit expected to be showered with $1.1 billion in tax dollars, but the Big Beautiful Bill passed by Congress last month zeroed it out.

Unsurprisingly, PBS itself misreported the news. 

No, PBS, Trump didn’t claw back the funds. Congress did.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul made a similarly misleading announcement. Continue reading.