The CPB and the Politics of Public Media

Civics 101

NHPR

Society & Culture, Government, History

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, or the CPB? How does it all work? And why is it SO political? In this episode, senior producer Christina Phillips explains it all. She first spoke with the CPB's Anne Brachman, and then did a deep dive to learn more. In the episode, Christina mentions 2024 legislation called the Defund NPR Act. You can read that bill right here. Since we taped the episode, there's a new effort afoot to defund the CPB. More on that here. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Go for it.
0:01.0	it.
0:02.0	This is Civics 101. I'm Hannah McCarthy. I'm Nick Capadiche. I am Rebecca
0:15.2	LaVoy and I'm Christina Phillips. And we're doing something a little different today.
0:20.3	Instead of Hannah Hans Blains, senior producer Christina Phillips is going to
0:25.9	explain stuff to us today.
0:28.2	A Phil Spain?
0:29.2	A what spain?
0:30.2	Phil Spain?
0:31.2	Frisina Philip, she's going to Phil Sply.
0:33.0	A Phil Spain.
0:34.0	I don't know if that words.
0:35.0	Doesn't work.
0:36.0	We can work on.
0:38.0	It sounds like something like a waterway, like a spill.
0:40.0	Get it by the Phil's plan. Uh, Christina, why did you gather all of us here today?
0:50.0	Well, as you remember, we were recently in Washington, D.C. and while we were there, I decided
0:56.6	to go talk to some people who are, I would say, our closest connection to the federal government,
1:02.2	and I say our meaning this podcast the radio
1:04.7	station we work at which is to say that I went to the offices of the corporation for
1:09.7	public broadcasting.
1:11.7	Yes they distribute government funding to public media organizations like ours and there are
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