Public Broadcasting Board Members Cry, Quote Shakespeare and Russell Crowe After Congress Yanks NPR Funding

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Multiple officials at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting cried during a board meeting last week and the agency's president recited lines from a Shakespeare tragedy—in an outpouring of emotion and drama over Congress's vote to cancel the organization's budget to fund NPR and other public media outlets because of liberal bias. CPB president Pat Harrison and the organization's four board members took part in a board meeting on July 24, days after Congress voted to rescind $1.1 billion in