In July, Congress approved a plan to pull back already allocated tax money that included more than $1 billion for public broadcasters NPR and PBS. As a result, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in operation since November 1967, will be shutting its operations. NPR partner stations across the country broadcast the music to millions of listeners every day and PBS helped produce the 2001 Ken Burns’s documentary Jazz. Less jazz on the air means less jazz in the culture at large, and a more challenging, less receptive environment for magazines such as this one. According to Protect My Public Media, public media funding is currently, until this fall, 0.01 percent of the federal budget.