In 1961, President Kennedy's FCC chairman,
Newton Minow, gave a speech deriding commercial TV programming.
I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.
He wanted to do something about it.
Is there one person in this room who claims that broadcasting can't do better?
So Congress created something called the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
You might not have realized when you were interacting with the CPB, but it happened all the time.
When you were tickled by Elmo?
Happy International Joke Day!
When someone moved you on the drive home?
This is fresh air.
I'm Terry Gross.
CBB is the reason you're hearing my voice right now.
But due to big, beautiful cuts,
the organization announced on Friday that it would be shutting down next year.
What's taken its place?
If you ask this White House, they might say something like PragerU.
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