Posted on 02/12/2018 11:51:36 AM PST by markomalley
President Trump's newly proposed budget includes a proposal to end federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), part of a package that includes $300 billion in new spending overall.
CPB provides federal funding for PBS and National Public Radio stations.
"The Budget proposes to eliminate Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) over a two year period," according to the proposal.
"CPB grants represent a small share of the total funding for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), which primarily rely on private donations to fund their operations," it continues.
"To conduct an orderly transition away from Federal funding, the Budget requests $15.5 million in 2019 and $15 million in 2020, which would include funding for personnel costs of $16.2 million, rental costs of $8.9 million; and other costs totaling $5.4 million."
In a statement in March 2017 after the first Trump budget proposed the elimination of CPB, the 50-year-old nonprofit characterized itself as “one of America’s best investments.”
“We will work with the new administration and Congress in raising awareness that elimination of federal funding to CPB begins the collapse of the public media system itself and the end of the essential national service," CPB President Patricia Harrison said.
“There is no viable substitute for federal funding that ensures Americans have universal access to public media’s educational and informational programming and services," she added.
“The elimination of federal funding to CPB would initially devastate and ultimately destroy public media’s role in early childhood education, public safety, connecting citizens to our history, and promoting civil discussions — all for Americans in both rural and urban communities.”
Responding to Trump's budget, the CPB's head said the cuts would hurt emergency alert systems and childhood programming, among other things.
PBS CEO Paula Kerger said at a TV critics meeting last July that a number of PBS stations across the country are dependent on federal funding in order to survive.
"PBS will not go away, but a number of our stations will," Kerger said on July 30. "There is no Plan B for that."
Trump's budget requires congressional approval before it can take effect. Public broadcasting has survived previous presidential threats to cut its funding.
They must be hurting some because they have had a bunch of one day drives here since Trump got elected.
I listen for free. I listen for the same reason I used to read Cosmo " The magazine for office sluts". To have advance notice of the enemy battle plans.
Chop them up and sell off the pieces, for a quick profit.
Just do it.
Propose? Cut it off right now! Why wait?
PBS, just like Planned Parenthood, has more than enough assets to sustain itself. Just because something starts out as a Non-Profit, does not mean they never make any money.
Nooooo. But Big Bird and Kermie
Good. Even if PBS/NPR were all positive, it’s still a luxury when we are deep in dept. Funding for both should be completely eliminated.
Exactly. Funding TV stations which espouses anti Americanism. The only time these clowns felt patriotic was when they broadcast the American Revolution TV series and my dad bought the DVD series.
I was watching our local NPR station yesterday while flipping channels.
They had a “journalist” being interviewed who was promoting ANTIFA.
God damn disgusting radical stuff.
Absolutely. The Constitution gives the feds not authority to use or support PBS, NPR.
While we’re at it, let’s nuke these unconstitutional, useless, and harmful departments, agencies, and bureaucracies:
Department of Health and Human Services ($1 TRILLION budget!!!)
Department of Energy
Department of Education
Department of Labor
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Transportation
The 440 unconstitutional Federal Administrative Agencies including
EPA
FCC
SBA (Small Business Administration)
Our Goal to MAGA: RESTORE OUR FREE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!
NPR should hire Rush and Levin as consultants to revamp their propaganda to be closer to the historical truth.
Public Broadcasting in South Dakota had what were for all purposes commercials from local businesses. Let PBS sell ads.
Question: What is a "Bubba-bait" distraction?
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BUILD THE WALL.
END OBAMA'S TRUMP'S CATCH-AND-RELEASE OF ILLEGAL INVADERS.
While they’re at it, they can eliminate funding for National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
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Anyone have data on campaign contributions from NPR and PBS employees?
Ditto that!
Not just propaganda,but garbage.
This past Saturday I was sitting in my car waiting for a friend and I had NPR on——mid afternoon.
It was about what made young New Yorkers fall in love-——one said she knew she was in love was when her lover used the term “menstrual fluid” instead of blood.
Off went the radio,with me mumbling.”We’re paying for this?”
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