Oh no, Omg, Ooh
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 ...
He needs to do away with it. PBS is outdated and no longer needed.
Give PBS warning that funding will be reduced by half in June and end in December. That’s fair and balanced.
Use the 500 million $’s to treat Vets at any clinic or hospital and fire the lazy bums at our current Veteran Hospital.
Oh no, Omg, Ooh
THANK YOU!! Remove ALL funding from these entities. Let ‘em sink or swim on their own — like most businesses in America. I, personally, have a problem with my tax dollars being spent this way.
Yank all money going to Planned Parenthood and National Endowment For The Arts, too.
>> Aside from the classical music it’s almost entirely crap.
Exactly.
“You may have hoodwinked everyone else in this backwater town, but you can’t fool me. I listen to Public Radio.” - Squidward
Thanks I was not aware of that. Of course when your youngest grand child starts driving legally, and some are voting. We are a little out of touch w/Sesame Street.
Fire Burt, Ernie and the other critters.
"All your life is Channel 13....Sesame Street....What does it mean?"
I had no idea it was so much money. Why the hell do we fund them anyhow?
What a great and long-overdue idea.
Let’s do the same with the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Now don’t get me wrong. I am supportive of a number of arts and humanities-related programs. I just believe that government should not be funding them. These fields should be going to the private sector for funding.
No artist, no matter how valuable and thought-provoking their works my be, is entitled to government aid.
Nauseating.
Doesn’t AARP have an even bigger and better headquarters to get a paycheck in DC, and AARP members can’t visit the headquarters?
It takes that much money to only be 15% of the budget? Is that right? The rest is funded through donations/sponsors?
It's GREAT entertainment. They DO NOT UNDERSTAND why they lost, and are sniffing each other's farts. They ONLY talk to leftists, and discuss the "alt_right" whatever that is, as who Trump voters are. They cannot grasp the mainstream America. One guy called in today to smash them all with facts like "your condescension toward those you have NO CLUE about, puts people off." NPR host ARGUES BACK!! LOL
"Go read this article, or that piece at Salon or whatever! We've driven through the midwest!"
They proved the guys point, and didn't even realize it!! I was literally laughing out loud in my truck today! OMG. They are SO SMART!! LOL
Probably....don’t know for sure.
Thanks!
I can remember in the 1970s when NPR arrived, and most regional channels played a fair amount of jazz, opera, and did readings of classic books. It served a purpose and was worth the money.
If you go and review what you get now....it’s roughly 12 hours a day of news. Frankly, we already have more than enough news. If I were Trump, I’d make it simple...go back to the original format and limit your daily news content to just two hours a day. If you can’t reach that objective, then cut their budget and let them survive off companies or advertise.
Welcome! :)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.