Agreed. Is there a need for fed funding of NPR or PBS at all? I say no, especially since there are so many other sources of media out there. Look at all the educational/cultural shows on various TV channels. In radio, college or even commercial radio can provide good content.
Let “public” TV and radio go fully commercial—some of their donorships sound like ads anyway—and get the money that way.
Take ads and also support from “listeners and viewers like you” not fed money.
(in other words VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS not money from our taxes...a Boston area station playing “nice music” is
licensed to be commercial but basically has a fundraising drive every year since the owner doesn’t want “snake oil
salesmen” on his station. Like the station? Give a donation
voluntarily and it survives without ads. So should NPR.
I don’t want my tax dollars subsidizing liberal bias.)
http://wjib740.com/ is the station btw
There is NO reason for state controlled or pseudo state controlled TV or radio in a free society. PBS, NPR, the BBC, etc are an outrage. We need separation of media and state.
NPR and PBS should be broken up. We need locally oriented, locally owned media outlets not giant national propaganda networks.
As long as I can remember people have wanted to defund NPR and as long as I can remember their funding has increased, GOP or Dem in charge didn’t matter.