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 ...
Yes, this is a revolution. This revolution will not be televised on PBS.
Kramer: And tote bags I shall have, Jerry!
Kramer: Your grandmother is writing out a check for $1500 right now!
Uncle Leo: STOP THE SHOW!!!
NPR is atrocious. PBS has a few good shows such as “This Old House” and Nova, but it needs to get out of politics. I could never understand why a TV network taking taxpayer money could be allowed to go political, and completely leftist political at that.
Next, cut federal funding of La Raza!
http://annualreport.nclr.org/assets/i-invest.pdf
Why are we taxpayers funding a de facto racist organization?
NPR/PBS, welfare for the rich.
Virtually 100% coverage of the USA these networks are worth a fortune!
Aw gee, if Hollywood hadn’t been so hateful they might have had some influence but.......well........too bad
Intellectualism doesn’t get ratings. That’s the same reason the science/learning channels all went to reality TV (history channel is basically all Pawn Stars and American Pickers now).
There’s a lot of good content that would otherwise go untried or unseen. I don’t know what the answer is though.
Indeed, the way they cut B52s, maybe we should cut up the NPR stations. The again, I would be happy to see a Zuckerberg and Gates buy the license back for billions as a tax and then see their investment crash and burn!
OK, now where can I get one of those shirts???
I just hope Capital Public Radio in Sacramento stays on the air. As well as many others.
Without public radio it will be hard to keep classical music and opera on the air anywhere. And compressed MP3 doesn’t cut it over the internet.
Anywhere.
I’ll send them more money, but just a note to the team here: Some things are worth funding with taxpayer dollars.
That shirt also ... Where can I get one?
They essentially dropped every other subject, and went wall-to-wall with protest stories and dire descriptions of how the First Amendment would die if their gravy train wasn’t kept rolling.
That's why Trump's media skills are so valuable. He has to own the news cycles so that when it happens, the press will have one day before he does something else, and by five days later, so much will have happened that they will have no momentum to fight it.
National Pubic Radio and and Pubic Broadchasing deny the facts of life that their roles have already been well overtaken by Discovery, National Geo and other for-profit networks..... and nobody wants to spend 4 hours of on-air fundraising in order to watch a 1953 Lawrence Walk TV show.
Indeed, but most of it is produced by the BBC. I am surprised that BBC America hasn't pulled back its content for its own use. The good stuff won't disappear from the "airwaves," it will just find another home.
Every Saturday morning in season, it’s opera from the Met.
Live and commercial free.
That’s worth something right there. Especially to those who decry the debasement of culture in the US.
I agree...do not privatize....shut it down...do not subsidize or facilitate any semblance of a transition.
It will only help these evil spores to take root and thrive elsewhere.
Why help the enemy at all?
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