CPB
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“You really don’t want to spend that amount of time just trying to get somebody handcuffed,” said Kerlikowske, the former CPB commissioner, of the video of the arrest in Portland.
From Salon • Jan. 14, 2026
“What has happened to public media is devastating,” said CPB Board Chair Ruby Calvert.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026
The CPB said its board determined that without federal resources, it wouldn’t serve the public interest to continue as a “nonfunctional entity.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026
He began the presentation with an explanation of how the CPB was conceived “as a means for the federal government to wield the power of television for the enrichment of all Americans.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2025
But there is a down side when the CPB adopts a wrong theory and when policy becomes misguided.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas
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