Posted on 01/24/2017 5:49:11 PM PST by Hojczyk
Currently, a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money is given to National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) each year. Trump plans to do away with that. The Hill has reported:
“The Trump Administration needs to reform and cut spending dramatically, and targeting waste like the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be a good first step in showing that the Trump Administration is serious about radically reforming the federal budget,” said Brian Darling, a former aide to Paul and a former staffer at the Heritage Foundation.
The Regan Administration attempted something similar in the 1980s, but was ultimately convinced against it. One of the cases made was that the government owes the American people access to news/information. Back then, there was no internet, only a few dozen televisions/news radio stations. They saw it as an actual public service (perhaps, rightly so). Today, however, broadcast television and FM radio is in a major decline with fewer and fewer viewers every year. After all, who feels like waiting for the 6 o’clock news when you can just hop on the internet and get real-time news and current events?
On the Bernie Sanders campaign trail, he loved claiming that Norway was better than America. Well, Norway is planning to eliminate FM radio altogether. FM radio and satellite television are dying media forms that have been kept alive and propped up by government spending and the bureaucracy, so isn’t it good that we’re pulling federal funding? If are profitable and do in fact have a strong audience, they wouldn’t need to be subsidized with taxpayer money. Well, Hollywood doesn’t think so:
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
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“gay p0rn music”
What the hell is...know what? I don’t want to know.
Did you use that zero to prevent some bot from triggering on your post?
lol
And Ken Burns!!!
hehehe
Gee, I wonder what the #NeverTrumpers think now?
Its Christmas every day in The Age of Trump!!!
Trump is a one-man freaking cyclone - best thing is, he ENERGIZES all those around him.
Trump is like the “Tasmanian Devil” from the Warner Brothers cartoons - the Dems don’t know which direction he’s coming from next!!
I thought it was “FOR THE CHILDREN”. (barf)
The crap networks only promoted socialist, Marxist agenda! Time to pull the plug!!
I like British programming too. But PBS stopped being the main source about ten or fifteen years ago. BBC America, Netflix, Amazon Video, YouTube, Hulu, the list of alternatives that don’t run distracting fund drives offering spiffy coffee mugs and teapot cozy’s every couple weeks, or give talk time to closet Communists like Bill Moyer, is practically endless. Both they and NPR can try and make it without my tax dollars, thank you very much.
Victoria is good. I’ve been watching that.
Yes, or the Gates family.
Have you ever noticed how the voices of NPR reporters always sound elitist?
And they have a few guys with British accents to make the commentary more intelleccccccccctual.
You’ve got to hand it to them: they have developed their own mystique.
But sounding professional is fine. The problem is they are so violently slanted toward the left.
Let them keep the name NPR and PBS. And I look forward to hearing some new entrepreneurial stations pop up to fill in any programming NPR does.
The good stuff on Masterpiece can be viewed online or purchased on dvd. No need for PBS!
Quite true. Maybe SiriusXM.
We are lucky in Denver to have an NPR news station AND A SEPARATE CPR classical music station. I do not give to the classics music station because they get my tax dollars. If they go away I will donate because it is now my choice and the classical music station is just that and I enjoy listening to it.
I’m sure Sirius/XM has a classical station.
Sirius/XM
Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
A week without opera and I start getting jittery. 2 weeks and I’m a mess.
Just tell them their funding was reallocated to the Fakeistinians by 0 they’ll be glad
BUT how will all the smart people get tote bags?
Who is broadcast classical music and opera?
Nobody except public radio.
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http://theclassicalstation.org/
WCPE GreatClassicalMusic 89.7FM where I am
Check it out online. All info plus daily schedules.
Totally listener supported. They do fundraisers like twice a year. Very nice people. Volunteers.
Ask a station near you to carry it.
I record sunday 7:30am to 11am GreatSacredMusic.
Celebrate Mozart’s birthday a day early this week on the WCPE Opera House with a classic recording of Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). A comic opera composed in 1786 with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, it’s based on Pierre Beaumarchais’ 1784 play Le Mariage de Figaro. This play is the second installment in his Figaro Trilogy, preceded by Le Barbier de Séville (The Barber of Seville) and followed by La Mère coupable (The Guilty Mother). Thanks to the great popularity of Barbier, Mariage opened to enormous success; it reportedly grossed 100,000 francs in the first twenty showings and the theater was so packed that three people were crushed to death by the opening-night crowd. Mozart’s Nozze — which premiered on May 1, 1786 at Vienna’s Burgtheater — was the first of three collaborations with Da Ponte; the others were Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte..
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