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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DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT
What ever he does, it will be fair and not revenge like obutthole.
Let the “TRUMP HATES BIG BIRD” cries begin.
Yeah, that might build a bridge!
He could but he won’t.
Why pour money into that buggy whip factory?
Pray America woke
Good post. Except the migrant story usually runs first. NPR has got to the point of the rest of the Old Media.
Good idea?
Hell yes, All Things Considered!
Is that it?
C’mon - he can do better than this.
oh please oh please oh please oh please
Yes, by all means, please do. There is absolutely no reason why the fed gov should finance tv or radio, no reason at all.
Padlock the place and all the member stations. It isn’t exactly unheard of.
A few years ago, SCETV brass decided to padlock the regional station in Beaufort one morning with no notice.
I heard later that a lot of tapes and release forms were tossed in the dump that were held only there.
Granted the little station didn’t do much except a documentary once in a while and little local news.
Why stop there? Remove all taxpayer funding.
I also want a la carte programming for dish and cable in this administration.
Subtract the government advertisement spending too.
Not in the slightest.
My suggestion all along has been to use PBS and NPR as a vehicle for President Trump to address the nation on a weekly basis, much like FDR and his fireside chats. Liberals might object, but the “P” in both of them stands for “Public”.
What? Is this for real?!! I can’t believe it!!!
Yay! Kill the post office too!
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