Posted on 01/31/2025 9:18:24 AM PST by cuz1961
...Brendan Carr, the chairman, said in a letter to NPR and PBS on Wednesday that the inquiry would focus on whether the news organizations’ member stations violated government rules by recognizing financial sponsors on the air.
Mr. Carr said that NPR and PBS stations operate as noncommercial broadcast organizations, but that they may be airing “announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements.”..
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
can we finally kill NPR and funding for abortion?
Defund and let them all fall they dont represent us they represent the criminals in government and thier agenda
By broadcasting their financial sponsors you know who their propaganda masters are.
PBS and NPR should not receive government funding.
Back when there were only three commercial networks, you could make the case for PBS.
That ship sailed a long time ago.
Take away any television licenses for local PBS stations.
They do not serve the public interest—they are leftist propaganda outlets.
How about their BLATANT support of insane Democrat policies and denigration of anything conservative?
The best solution is to cut them loose and let them live or die in the market. There is no longer ANY reason to provide them public support. We now have millions of choices available via the web and OTA broadcasts.
“Back when there were only three commercial networks, you could make the case for PBS.”
There is absolutely no Constitutional authorization for the Federal government to fund a tv network.
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Is Carr a Trump appointee, or is he a holdover from the Biden gang?
Winning. Except every thread is infested with whiny freepers.
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” this program brought to you by contributions from the \=÷;*oligarch foundation....”
they often document it themselves at the beginning and ending of many pbs specials and airings.
The Republicans won’t do it. They may whine and complain about the bias and subsidies but at the end of the day they are too fearful of criticism to actually pull the funding.
defund and let them go commercial
sink or swim
I’m in favor of them receiving 100% of their funding from sponsorships. And zero % from taxpayers.
bttt
They can be like other programs, and require paid subscriptions. (I wonder how long they’d survive...)
Radio, they are like locusts , they have way too many stations
And I think that was about the last time I really used any of them.
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