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Not all taxpayers would agree with throwing money at NPR/PBS...
My first SWAG is that it is unconstitutional for congress to do so or feel compelled to continue.
Right. Like rural types listen to NPR.
Vital alerts can be found on the internet, Twitter, AM radio, etc.
“…will subtract from the time we could be devoting to honing the message we transmit to those who rely on NPR’s perspective on the news.”
Generally known as customers. So what’s the problem?
Should have been done decades ago.
People who listen to NPR love to mention it. I never missed it when someone would say that they heard a story on NPR or that they were listening to NPR, or asked if I heard that bit on NPR. To me, that was all I needed to hear from someone to make me immediately discount their opinion.
Only leftists who hate America listen to NPR.
‘Maher warned that “defunding NPR poses a real risk to the public safety of the country. Rural areas would feel the largest impacts.”
That statement is just plain stupid. It might have applied 50 years ago when living in the boondocks was genuinely cut off from much of society. But that simply is not the case today with all this digital stuff like streamed TV, cell phones, internet and the fact that local TV and radio stations have farther reach. And then there is the print media still hanging on.
We live in the middle of nowhere and are doing fine without PBS & NPR.
Fine with me, let the leftists pay to hear the misleading presentation of the events of the world. I don’t want to pay for that. At least they don’t have the imprimatur of the u.s. government anymore. Bunch o’snotty little negative simpletons.
Just goes to prove that the drival espoused by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its affiliates could not withstand normal business pressures without US taxpayer free money.
What will I do without my marxist propaganda?
I’ve no problem with those who listen to it providing funding. It was my money funding those smarmy little ill-educated turds that ticked me off.
That’s great and how it should have been all along, funded by private donations
Actually, it is local AM radio stations that serve local communities with emergency alerts, not the snarky pedants of “public radio.”
I may send them a box of lollipops myself.
We were told that federal funding was only a small part of their operations, yet the doors get immediately shuttered once the federal money dries up. We were told that private donations from loyal listeners were pouring in to continue operations, obviously not true. George Soros has bought up a large number of local radio stations, but couldn’t give a nickel to CPB. None of the large foundation donors that funded many PBS projects in the past didn’t step up with new financing. It would seem that the CPB in the end doesn’t have many friends nor was it clearly willing to actively pursue new funds or even sell advertising. I think, in the end, the higher ups at CPB will likely get golden parachutes ,the peons working for them and local PBS affiliates will get kicked to the curb and few people will actually care CPB is gone.
Well good; have at it.
I WAS RAISED RURAL-—up to leaving the farm at 18.
THEN I MOVED to rural again at age 53. Lived rural since.
NEVER EVER LISTENED TO NPR. NEVER -—NOT THEN & NOT NOW & NOT IN BETWEEN
THERE ARE EMERGENCY RADIOS IN RURAL AREAS FOR WARNINGS...NEVER “TURNED OFF”.
THIS IS FALSE FLAG OPERATION
BUT NOTHING BROADCAST UNTIL THERE IS A PROBLEM