Project 2025 and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

I've been continuing my read-through of Project 2025, "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise". I've made a lot of highlights in my Kindle, but I haven't had the energy to make a lot of posts. It's a lot to digest, but it's also given me first-hand knowledge to have those tough conversations. I'm going back through my highlights now, and I'll continue sharing.

The chapter about "Media Agencies: Corporation for Public Broadcasting" really hit home. Having grown up for a portion of my childhood without cable television, public broadcast was what we had. Sesame Street, Mister Roger's Neighborhood, and Bob Ross' The Joy of Painting were my favorites as a kid. They taught me lessons that my mother was already trying to teach me, helping me to see the world as a place to learn, to grow, and to make it beautiful through happy little accidents.

The quote below illustrates the Conservative Promise's viewpoint of PBS and other noncommercial education stations, as well as provides a plan for the future:

"Stripping public funding would, of course, mean that NPR, PBS, Pacifica Radio, and the other leftist broadcasters would be shorn of the presumption that they act in the public interest and receive the privileges that often accompany so acting. They should no longer, for example, be qualified as noncommercial education stations (NCE stations), which they clearly no longer are. NPR, Pacifica, and the other radio ventures have zero claim on an education function (the original purpose for which they were created by President Johnson), and the percentage of on-air programming that PBS devotes to educational endeavors such as "Sesame Street" (programs that are themselves biased to the Left) is small." (Source: Project 2025, page 247)