USA | Trump’s FCC chair investigates NPR and PBS, urges Congress to defund them
Trump’s FCC chair investigates NPR and PBS, urges Congress to defund them
Brendan Carr described as “Trump’s Censorship Czar” as he launches media probes.
Wait until fox news becomes federally funded and the official lies news of the government.
They could do even worse and make it Newsmax or neo OAN.
Honestly having the government fund news is asking for trouble. It would be different if they were very clear about only funding non bias articles and information but in this case they are funding private opinions.
The largest part of NPR's funding comes from individual donations, followed by corporate donations. Federal funding makes up around 5% of the total -- important, but not even close to their primary source of funds.
if you're concerned that 5% of their budget coming from government funding has undue influence over their editorial choices, you'd certainly be a lot more concerned about the 17% that comes from corporate donors. And when you compare that to private media's funding, which is 100% from corporate sources....
They've been going after public media since Nixon. Of course, it would hit their key demographic--rural areas--the hardest, who rely on public media for things like emergency alerts. Not to mention public media is the only source of local quality journalism for a lot of places.
But who cares about all that when we can let Sinclair Broadcasting take over and get rid of all that "woke" stuff?
Right on schedule.
Probably would have been yesterday if an opportunity to blame over 60 deaths on people not being white males didn’t appear.
Last I checked, they both get less than 10% of their funding from the government, and that amount is less than 0.5% of our military budget.
I'm not surprised by this, but it needs to be said: They need an efficiency checker for their efficiency checkers. In and of itself, trying to defund NPR and PBS is just wasting money and time on virtue signalling, or the right's equivalent. So doge is off to a great start, lol.
While this is broadly true, it's important to remember that individual PBS and NPR stations can have pretty dramatically different funding breakdowns. Stations in big cities will barely even notice this, but stations in more rural areas can often depend pretty heavily on government funding. The last thing rural America needs right now is even less access to non-corporate media.
More evil shit. All they can do is tear things down, never create.
I recently watched this wonderful video by Matt Baume that he released 3 months ago about the last time republicans wanted to defund PBS and NPR. The stated reasons and rational always change but its just hatred of non-commercial media
Eat a blizzard of dicks my guy. Car Talk and Radiolab are fuckin bangers!
The number of people that are going to be unemployed in the next 90 days as a direct result of this administration's decisions is truly astounding.
I'm cool with it. PBS and NPR can pay for themselves.
I do think it is poor practice to have the government fund content that has political opinion.
good thing reality isn’t a political opinion then
NPR fucking sane-washed trump all of 2024. They are partially to blame for this. Still support them but I expected more.
They did. They also shit all over Bernie for his two runs. I'm on board with your point.
It is almost like they tried to do honest journalism.
It's worse if you have large private donors or companies funding your media, see fox news, twitter, Facebook etc. who then contr6what you can see, and what not.
Sounds like you're not informed about NPR and PBS.
I think so, too. So I'm glad it doesn't happen.
You sound like you could tell us a lot about poor practices. I think I'll tune you out though, it seems like valueless content to me.
Same, NPR, PBS and ProPublica I don't want to lose sources that still do real journalism.
I added NPR and PBS to my monthly donation list as well. I wonder how many others will contribute what they can now thanks to this investigation?