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 Breitbarts 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, NPRs 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.)
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I actually listen to a lot of NPR. To them leading up to the last few weeks of the election wikileaks did not exist. They should be defunded.
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Why do taxpayers need to fund liberal cultural projects?
Isn’t Hollywood enough.
Oh, PLEASE, make it so! I don’t care that they are liberal liars. What I care about is them getting ANY tax monies and being a so-called “Non-profit.” Let them compete in the market place of ideas like everyone else.
“Listener sponsored” is their continual cry. Christian radio makes it work with one pledge drive a year and no government subsidies. NPR should try it.
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(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
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It’s nothing but brainwashing of the little ones anymore. It needs to go
When they’re done, public broadcasting ought to look like Gettysburg on July 5 1863.
You guys do know that Sesame Street is now owned and produced by HBO?
Do it. Save the $’s or re deploy elsewhere. $500M. A good start.
overdue by decades. i suggested it on his website.
it’s a good start...
A wholly reasonable proposal.
They can still pay for it. They’re on the show IIRC.
What a GREAT, absolutely FANTASTIC IDEA which is WAY WAY overdue!!
Absolutely. I despise Public Broadcasting. No MSM organization is more biased against American values than these outfits. SHUT THEM DOWN!
I like it!
More winning please!
It doesn't matter where they lean, it only matters that the government shouldn't be paying for it.
If Trump does that, he would have the gratitude of the country.
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He would certainly have my family’s gratitude. Anti-American propaganda outlets doing damage at taxpayers’ expense. Shameful!
I second that.
He should do it his first day in office.
Let the liberals pay for their liberal network.
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