New Jersey's public television network
may be forced to shut down next year
after its nonprofit operator and the
state's public Broadcasting Authority
failed to reach a contract agreement
nytimes.com/2025/ Sept. 25 online article
by Samantha Latson
It was not clear precisely how the funding
cuts had led to the contract impasse. A state
spending plan Gov. Philip D. Murphy signed
this summer slashed funding to $250,000 down
from $1 million in the previous fiscal year.
President Trump and House GOP (MAGA)
and Senate Republicans also cut $500 million
from public broadcasters around the country.
. . .Closure of local news outlets could lead to
a country that was even more divided. . ."People
become more disengaged from their communities,
and they tend to flee into their tribal corners even
more than we have seen. It focuses people more
on national news, less on local news, and it tends
to polarize."
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