Trump Administration Sends Congress Its Proposal To Rescind NPR, PBS And Public Media Station Funding

Nah, more like a quarter on this issue (arc)

Plus, this is going to be extra unpopular with people in rural areas especially, lots of small towns have no news coverage or any kind of media focusing on them besides public stations, so if they go away nobody's going to tell you what's going on at the school board or what the score of the high school football game was or other local stuff like that

Between this and the cuts to Medicaid, people in Trump voting country are getting fucked by this administration, and even they're starting to realize that, which creates an opportunity for taking these fascist pricks down a notch

The thing is, it won't really because NPR and PBS have plenty of outside funding and will continue to put out great podcasts and videos and other online media that they're going to keep competing with. Defunding the corporation for public broadcasting is only going to kill tiny stations in rural markets that commercial broadcasters have generally abandoned already anyway because there aren't enough people there to make for profit media work. The only people this helps are the ones who want to keep rural voters ignorant about what's going on in the country (which, yeah, benefits these media companies in a lot of ways, but it's not quite as simple as just killing their competition).