Without federal funding & stakeholders, what really distinguishes CPB / PBS from any other non-profit? > conservatives benefit more from having PBS around as a

Without federal funding & stakeholders, what really distinguishes CPB / PBS from any other non-profit? > conservatives benefit more from having PBS around as an issue than they would by slashing its funding There's an implication here that if federal funding ceased, the conservative assault on PBS would somehow fizzle - but couldn't the opposite just as easily be true? Cutting off federal funds is a form of de-legitimization, and we'd hear it cited for years to come as 'proof' that PBS and all its programming is liberal propaganda that can safely be ignored by one and all.