Posted on 03/04/2025 5:55:42 AM PST by V_TWIN
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., on Monday introduced a bill that would end federal funding for NPR and PBS, reports the Washington Examiner.
"We're spending half a billion dollars a year, 14 and a half billion dollars over time, to give to people at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR and NPS [sic] to participate in opinion journalism, which they're entitled to do, but they can't do it on the taxpayer dime. They're doing it on the taxpayer dime, but they shouldn't be able to," Kennedy said on the Senate floor.
The report comes nearly a month after President Donald Trump's new FCC chair ordered an investigation of NPR and PBS.
"I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials," Chair Brendan Carr wrote at the time the presidents and chief executives of NPR and PBS.
"In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements."
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What are the odds of this actually passing?
Mike Gonzalez
Every Republican President since Richard Nixon has tried to strip the Corpora- tion for Public Broadcasting (CPB) of taxpayer funding. That is significant not just because it means that for half a century, Republican Presidents have failed to accomplish what they set out to do, but also because Nixon was the first President in office when National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which the CPB funds, went on air. In other words, all Republican Presidents have recognized that public funding of domestic broadcasts is a mistake. As a 35-year-old lawyer in the Nixon White House, one Antonin Scalia warned that conservatives were being “confronted with a long-range problem of significant social consequences—that is, the development of a government-funded broadcast system similar to the BBC.”
All of which means that the next conservative President must finally get this done and do it despite opposition from congressional members of his own party if necessary. To stop public funding is good policy and good politics. The reason is simple: President Lyndon Johnson may have pledged in 1967 that public broadcasting would become “a vital public resource to enrich our homes, educate our families and to provide assistance to our classrooms, but public broadcasting immediately became a liberal forum for public affairs and journalism.
Not only is the federal government trillions of dollars in debt and unable to afford the more than half a billion dollars squandered on leftist opinion each year, but the government should not be compelling the conservative half of the country to pay for the suppression of its own views. As Thomas Jefferson put it, “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagations of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.”
Long overdue.
Just don’t let Soros and his pals buy it.
Good, but I will miss NOVA and Nature
An individual bill won’t pass because the Republicans don’t have 60 Senators to overcome the Democrat Filibuster. However, if it was put into the budget they could then pass it via reconciliation which only requires a majority........
BTTT
BTTT
My heart skipped a beat and I have butterflies in my stomach. Im in love.
Thank you, Sen. Kennedy!
Senator Kennedy is a national treasure!
I agree - I’ll just have to find somewhere else to watch Masterpiece Theater.
Let them buy it and try to run it. The left can’t run anything properly. Remember Air America?!
PBS and npr will be just fine without federal funding.....trust me.
It’s obscene that they have been on the government teat for decades for no justifiable reason
About fn time.
Why should the federal government fund “news” they can get on MSNBC for free? Altho I don’t think MSNBC will be on the air too much longer
Every dime of my taxes saved is great. Turn off the light when you leave the room.
Yay!
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