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 oclock 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 isnt it good that were pulling federal funding? If are profitable and do in fact have a strong audience, they wouldnt need to be subsidized with taxpayer money. Well, Hollywood doesnt think so:
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Thank you
But I referred specific to broadcast, as in over the air.
This is sweet and very long overdue.
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Exactly right. Nothing but cadres of leftists sucking on the public tit, wasting taxpayer dollars that could be used to rebuild the country’s crumbling infrastructure. SHUT ‘EM DOWN!
National Peoples Radio and Peoples Broadcasting Service should fund themselves any way they choose. We should not be paying for their anti-American propaganda.
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SHUT ‘EM DOWN!
I’ll believe it when I see it. : )
Look for Big Bird to appear in front of a subcommittee.
Did they finally shut it down? That was one street that never changed.
The winning is delivered in capsule form and expands when exposed to the air.
Suck it up! We have not yet begun to win!
I can do without NPR and Pacifica, which is an abomination. But where is the great “win” in shutting down PBS? As flawed as its funding model is, it does offer a wealth of good programming and some of it is great, certainly a helluva lot more than replays of Lawrence Welk, as someone on this thread suggested. And, no, The Discover Channel and other for-profits won’t easily be able to supplant the higher quality PBS shows.
Do we really need to be Sherman marching through Georgia over PBS programming? What do we gain by telegraphing to the larger population that Conservatives are after all the cultural philistines they have always been portrayed as?
I think the Hill and Politico articles are simply meant to foment dissent and that there’s likely very little political will to get this done. In fact, I don’t think Trump will push this through. It’s more strategic for him and for us if he doesn’t.
Personally I always do a search before posting an article. Usually I search on just one word from the headline. Some cut and paste the headline, others retype the headline. So searching on the entire headline may not be useful.
It also is useful to spend some time with the search page to learn how it works. Experimentation is a great teacher.
Good one!
True, but no tax dollars are spent to fund kook2kook am.
As their owners, we should merely close the doors, fire the staff and sell the assets, not together just in its various parts.
They are only partially funded by government funds. They may be able to survive just fine without government funds, and if that is the case, good for them. Or, maybe not.
What happens when you disconnect a lib from NPR? It could get ugly.
Poldark is a problem... gotta have that. Maybe Victoria too.
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Good. As we saw with Air America so few people listened to them they wend out of business. Let NPR/PBS find their own revenue if they want to stay on the air.
Now all all of a sudden every lib will claim they listed to NPR/PBS daily.
If lbs is a good idea, it can get by without govt funds.
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