Wednesday November 7th marked the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Public Broadcasting Act by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967, which created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and I wanted to note that briefly here.This Washington Post column tells us about how the happily-now-departed 109th Congress tried to end funding for the CPB within two years in 2005 and the resistance it met when trying to do so, and this site from Media Matters for America provides some nested links to more instances of conservative misinformation regarding the CPB’s Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR).
President Johnson provided a vital tool to ensure the free flow of information that we need to think and act responsibly, and to show our gratitude, we must protect it always from Kenneth Tomlinson and any other self-styled potentate who would destroy it.
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