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.)
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Could slash?? DO Slash!!!!
And pass a law requiring "National Public Radio"--if it re-emerges--to NEVER contain the word,"National," in its name.
Count me in.
Good! A few good programs that should do just fine on free market media. And a ton of left wing and racist propaganda we certainly shouldn’t be forced to
Pay for.
President Trump Could Slash $500 Million from Public Broadcasting
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YES ~ !!!!!!!!! BUILD THAT WALL — EVEN LONGER
eliminate their tax exempt status.
HBO laid off a bunch of the veteran cast members from Sesame Street after they picked up the show. I don’t see HBO or the remaining cast members giving a rats a$$ about PBS and whether they survive. In fact PBS was rather pissed and was hoping that it wouldn’t do well with all the changes made by HBO. From what I’ve seen of it (the few times I put it on for my kids), I think it is significantly better than the PBS version.
Aside from the classical music it’s almost entirely crap.
the funds are congressional appropriations. absent a line item veto, the money must be spent as designated
OH Hell YES.
Finally, the cartoon where Big Bird is some family’s Thanksgiving Turkey well come true!!!
Do it. Please just do it.
Here’s a typical hour of NPR:
1. Brief news “daily update” stories about bigoted conservatives and caring liberals. (At the top and bottom of the hour.)
2. Longer story about conservatives hurting liberals.
3. Friendly story about LGBTQRSTUV people somewhere in the world.
4. Serious global warming story.
5. Brief news “daily update” stories about bigoted conservatives and caring liberals. (At the top and bottom of the hour.)
6. Slightly happy story about animals, with nudges describing the need to give them rights, protections, and the ability to have someone vote on their behalf.
7. Compassionate story about migrants somewhere in the world.
8. Story about how stupid Trump is and of how stupid his supporters are for supporting him.
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Yes, do it!
Very desirable, but, right now, just the ROTD
Aren’t you growing tired of winning yet?
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