Posted on 11/22/2016 5:19:45 PM PST by markomalley
With President-elect Trump promising to pay for his infrastructure and defense spending by defunding non-essential federal spending, one of the first programs on the block could be the almost $500 million spent on public broadcasting.
Despite repeated efforts to kill federal funding of public broadcasting since Republicans won the House in 2010 and Presidential-nominee Mitt Romney made it a campaign promise in 2012, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education are spending $470.7 million in U.S. taxpayer cash to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) this year, which provides 15 percent of PBS television and 10 percent of NPR radio broadcasting funding.
Although their charter requires strict non-partisan programing, the public broadcasters are accused of leaning left. An NPR article described the 2016 election results as “nostalgia for a whiter America.”
After Joel Pollak, who serves as Breitbart’s Senior Editor-at-Large and In-house Counsel, defended its Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon from false and defamatory claims of antisemitism and “white nationalism” in a Nov. 16 interview, NPR’s ombudsman/public editor Elizabeth Jensen recommended that the taxpayer-funded radio news service bar future live interviews of conservatives, who may be “normalizing hate speech.” Instead, guests with presumably controversial views should be pre-taped, she said, so that their opinions might be “contextualized.” (NPR clarified on Monday evening that it will continue to air live interviews with conservatives.)
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I remember listening to the show “All Things Considered” while not hearing all things considered.
Big Bullshit Network.
And the U.S. Federal government spends many times that dictating the content of American TV shows. This started in the 1980s, when Congress appropriated hundreds of millions annually to the networks to air police shows that glorified the police rather than defense attorneys such as Perry Mason.
This federal money may be the difference between a profit and a loss for most of the network media parts of GE, Disney, Comcast, Fox, CBS, and National Socialist Radio. Is that all of the Big 6?
DO it Trump, Do it! Please save some money for the country for a change, All this waste is so obvious to the Red counties all over America.
Or a veto. The President can veto an entire bill, and see whether Congress has the will to override his veto. President Ford did that more than all previous Presidents combined. Surely President Trump is at least as conservative as President Ford.
This and National Endowment of Arts, and lots of others.
In hell, NPR blares 24/7.
CPB is a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. CPB is the steward of the federal government's investment in public broadcasting and the largest single source of funding for public radio, television, and related online and mobile services.
As I get older I become less tolerant of pork, earmarks, flip flops, intrigues, conspiracies, corruption...
Now I have to dig deep to educate myself on the need for the government to have "public broadcasting." What were the arguments pro and con the whole idea during adoption of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967?
If 15% for TV and 10% of radio represents taxpayer money; it's clearly pork, for the benefit of whom?
They can play in the Alinski and enemies domestic playground with the other 7/8 of what is clearly a huge and bloated budget. Wall to wall unaccountable bureaucrats of questionable character.
They damned well can exist without taxpayer involuntary contribution.
Regardless of who ends up controlling content, Republicans, Democrats, muslims, socialists, communists, greens, Blackthugs, Perverts, feminists or the Klu Klux Klan, or an unholy combination thereof, they can fund their own damned TV and Radio propaganda.
I certainly don't want any part of it!
$3,800,000,000 budget? Are you s******g me??
Surely they can struggle with their existence with about a 1/8 reduction!
And who funds it, and what propaganda or incitements they spout, can be monitored, and indicted by the U.S. intelligence services, both foreign and domestic.
What a royal mess for the Republic has been created and going on for about 50 years? Perhaps longer?
Cut 100% of the Taxpayer subsidy now!
How did the country survive before 1967 without PBS TV and radio??
This is no longer the 1967 electorate or dealing with 1967 ethics, character and quality of elected political criminals.
KQAC 89.9 Portland/Vancouver
KQOC 88.1 Newport/Lincoln City
KQHR 88.1 Hood River/The Dalles
KQHR 96.3 Columbia Gorge East
KQMI 88.9 Manzanita
KSLC HD-2 90.3 McMinnville
95.7 FM Corvallis/Flynn
Somehow, they manage to limp along without belonging to NPR. We also have a Pravda station, but while it pretends to be "non-commecial", it's leftist loyalty makes Radio Moscow sound Alt-Right.
So instead of interrupting programming for obnoxious, nagging appeals for cash and promises of stupid, half-assed free gifts if you contribute enough, they might actually have to run (gulp) commercials, designed by advertisers with money to spare to both entertain and sell a product produced by a corporation. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
WCPE plays only classical music, no liberal propaganda. The station is available streaming online, affiliate stations nationwide, cable, and satellite. They receive no government funds, private and corporate donations only. Much better than NPR!
Http://theclassicalstation.org/listen.shtml
Yes!
Your tag line is true, but expires on 1/20/2017. :-)
I almost never watch PBS because there’s almost never anything worth watching except Celtic Thunder Christmas concerts, but when I do, the begathons are never ending. They devote almost more time to fund raising than public TV does to commercials.
I’ve been listening to NPR on my drive to work. STILL have not heard a balanced, fair or positive story about Trump. Not one. ALL negative. Slash and burn, Trump.
Who needs PBS when you have YouTube?
Then why do you listen to them?
I do watch some PBS,particularly the dramas (Downtown Abbey,various BBC crime series,etc) as well as the Britcoms and the nature shows (Africa particularly).I used to like shows like Nova and Frontline but no longer.The political/social stuff they show is absolute Marxist swill.That's why they should be self funded...taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing political stuff regardless of its tenor.
YES!
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Despite repeated efforts to kill federal funding of public broadcasting since Republicans won the House in 2010 and Presidential-nominee Mitt Romney made it a campaign promise in 2012, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education are spending $470.7 million in U.S. taxpayer cash to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) this year, which provides 15 percent of PBS television and 10 percent of NPR radio broadcasting funding
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BWAHAHahahaha. Repeated ‘efforts’, ‘campaign promises’ from Mittens. Oh, I needed that chuckle.
Least they note it’s TAXPAYER $$. Wish they’d also note the lack of authority to spend the same....
Suggest they dump Big Bird to the public domain for the $$ given and watch their heads explode. NPR Pravda? Buh-bye.
Not enough.
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