Oh, yeah, this is causing category 5 moonbattery
President Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for America’s two biggest public broadcasters, which have faced a series of attacks from the White House and Republican lawmakers accusing them of biased reporting.
The order instructs the CPB’s board to terminate direct funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service to the “maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding.” It also orders the board to take steps to “minimize or eliminate” indirect funding to NPR and PBS.
The executive order also directs Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to investigate NPR and PBS for possible employment discrimination, and it instructs the heads of all other federal agencies to “identify and terminate” any direct or indirect funding of the media organizations, as allowed by the law.
The order follows previous attacks on the public broadcasters by the Trump administration and prominent Republicans.
Each year, the CPB disperses $535 million in taxpayer funds to public radio and TV stations nationwide, stations provide free and universal access to educational shows, emergency alerts and a wide array of news and cultural content.
Republicans have been attacking both stations long before Trump won back in 2016, as they are a government funded propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and ever Progressive idea there is. Here are two Americans commenting about NPR at Quora
I listen to NPR all the time because it’s a great source of current event news (pretty much the only one on my drive to work) and has no ads. To me though, the liberal bias is pretty obvious. If you don’t see it, it’s because they are simply confirming your own biases. One thing that comes to mind immediately is that every 3rd story is about transgender or other identity politics issue. I’m not saying all these stories are completely one sided, but the selection of topics itself is skewed. They can’t even review TV shows, or new seasons, without talking about the fraction of minority, gay, transgender characters. These are not things that non-liberals care or think much about. A hugely disproportionate number of stories also end up blaming whatever problem they are talking about on climate change. I see it coming and roll my eyes every time. Science Friday seems to circle around to “what to do about climate deniers” every few months.
Of course it does. When I was younger, my college friends and I called it National Pinko Radio. And we loved it!
As someone who has listened to NPR for decades, I can assure you that NPR indeed has a liberal bias. NPR’s biases show up in their reporting, in their interview subjects, and most of all in their story selection. Given their largely liberal audience and overwhelmingly liberal reporting and editorial staff, it would be amazing if they didn’t have a liberal bias.
I remember NPR being far left all the way back in my college days in the 80s. Let me reverse this: if NPR was akin to Breitbart or The Blaze, would Democrats be trying to pull government funding? Of course they would. Would they be saying that the government should not be funding propaganda with taxpayer appropriations? Of course they would. And PBS has gone pure Woke, as well. Having drag queens on programing for children, gays and lesbians for Sesame Street (there shouldn’t be any sexuality of any type on children’s shows), raaaaacism, reparations, every Progressive agenda.
It was a mistake creating this back in 1970, it’s not what the government should be doing, having broadcasts with government propaganda. If liberals want to give their own money to the two, have at it.
Congress specifically set up the corporation as a private entity “to afford maximum protection from extraneous interference and control,” according to a law passed in 1967. The legislation expressly forbids the government from exercising “any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting.”
Except, anything created by Congress and funded via taxpayer money appropriated by the federal government should, in fact, be under the purview of the federal government. That’s their freaking job. Obviously, liberals will sue and a left wing judge will tell Trump to fund them, regardless of what the law says.
Once again, Trump shows how feckless the Republican party has been all along. They all could have done this and not one even tried. It really was this easy.
The Republicans have always needed someone to light a fire under them. Trump had to fire up a blow torch.
“We need this man. He fights.”
Conservarians always knew that “Truth has a liberal bias”.
Big Donnie has declared war on children! Cuts to research on childhood diseases, autism, education, childcare, children’s healthcare, food, vaccines…
Conservatards know that an educated, informed populous is NOT in their best interests!
They’ve attacked, bigly – education, healthcare, universities, media, scientists, the professions…
from our friends at Fear and Loathing…
Rimjob might want to get back in touch with reality.
You know Oscar — and the garbage-mouthed lefties that support you — if you want money so bad, no one’s stopping you from going out and getting a job. The fact that you think you’re entitled to other people’s money says more about you than it does Trump.
If NPR and PBS are good enough to generate an audience sizable enough to survive the way commercial broadcasters do, that’s great: privatize them and let them try. If NPR and PBS cannot generate enough of an audience to survive the way commercial broadcasters do, then they aren’t providing a valuable enough service for the government to continue to subsidize them.
It’s not 1969 any more. Choices of entertainment content are nearly unlimited.
Similarly, a group was puttung ads on the radio telling people to contact congress about “saving AM radio” in cars, presumably by forcing car makers to include it even though satalite radio and cell phone streaming exist, so people can listen to whatever they like even if AM radio didnt exist.
NPR stations now have multiple stations in every market, dominating the radio spectrum with their overpowered transmitters. That bandwidth could be better used by cell services. The stations should have their frequencies auctioned off instead of letting fake “public” stations have those valuable government resources for free.
The good Professor wrote:
Is this really true?
NPR stations tend to be college radio stations, operating on the FM band, which means limited range. Locally, there are NPR stations operated by the University of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, and Morehead State University within reception range. It’s not that big a deal, and if you went west of here, you’d lose the Morehead station, south and you’d lose the Lexington one.
If there have been NPR stations which have overpowered the commercial ones, I’ve never heard of it.
In the northern Virginia/ DC area, the entire lower range of the FM band is dominated by NPR stations that reach from Fredericksburg to Maryland to Front royal in the west. (WAMU, WETA, The same is true for all the large cities where the radio market is large. Kentucky has three in Louisville.
Free market, baby!! If only NPR and PBS had more sex, violence and commercials…
Instead, they taught and educated and told the truth via donations.
Maybe it’s time to have a government TV and radio channel(s) selling air time.
PBS and NPR have various views that are not supported by 80% of our citizens. Much of this is communist indoctrination. As such, there is zero reason for them to have government funding. They can continue to broadcast just as the fake news.
Trump has killed Big Bird and Kermit the Frog!
Oh no!!!
Big bird and Kermit are the oligarchs you were warned about. Those characters are HIGHLY profitable and could pay for their own programming/advertising.
Admittedly, I don’t listen to radio anymore, because my hearing has so degraded, but there are hundreds of stations, with all sorts of different formats: several genres of music, sports, sports talk, religion, political talk, news stations, some of them primarily aimed at black audiences, and probably more which don’t come to mind. Why couldn’t NPR find its own niche and survive commercially?
Our socialist from St Louis sure has some funny ideas about what can and cannot survive in a commercial environment. Is he saying that NPR couldn’t draw an audience sufficient to selling advertising? If so, he’s concomitantly saying that not enough people actually listen to NPR stations to make it anything other than a waste of taxpayer dollars to subsidize them!
If taxpayer dollars are going to continue to subsidize NPR and PBS, shouldn’t the elected representatives of the taxpayers have the right to dictate editorial content? Shouldn’t President Trump be able to replace the broadcasters and editors with people who will broadcast actually patriotic American content? If your answer is no, that NPR and PBS should retain independent editorial content, then you’ve already conceded that they should be completely independent, including independent of government funding.
“Democrats warn cutting state propaganda will lead to fascism….”
BB
‘“Told the truth…”. Are you kidding?
NPR CEO Katherine Maher says “the number one challenge in her fight against disinformation is the First Amendment in the United States which makes it a little bit tricky to censor bad information and the influence peddlers who spread it”.