Submitted 2 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
Brendan Carr described as “Trump’s Censorship Czar” as he launches media probes.
Last I checked, they both get less than 10% of their funding from the government, and that amount is less than 0.5% of our military budget.
I’m not surprised by this, but it needs to be said: They need an efficiency checker for their efficiency checkers. In and of itself, trying to defund NPR and PBS is just wasting money and time on the right’s version of virtue signalling. So doge is off to a great start, lol.
While this is broadly true, it’s important to remember that individual PBS and NPR stations can have pretty dramatically different funding breakdowns. Stations in big cities will barely even notice this, but stations in more rural areas can often depend pretty heavily on government funding. The last thing rural America needs right now is even less access to non-corporate media.
So if they only get 10 percent from gov, then no problem if that charity goes away.
They’re nonprofits. That 10% is probably crucial.
Right on schedule.
Probably would have been yesterday if an opportunity to blame over 69 deaths on people not being white males didn’t appear.
They’ve been going after public media since Nixon. Of course, it would hit their key demographic–rural areas–the hardest, who rely on public media for things like emergency alerts. Not to mention public media is the only source of local quality journalism for a lot of places.
But who cares about all that when we can let Sinclair Broadcasting take over and get rid of all that “woke” stuff?
I recently watched this wonderful video by Matt Baume that he released 3 months ago about the last time republicans wanted to defund PBS and NPR. The stated reasons and rational always change but its just hatred of non-commercial media
More evil shit. All they can do is tear things some, never create.
The number of people that are going to be unemployed in the next 90 days as a direct result of this administration’s decisions is truly astounding.
I do think it is poor practice to have the government fund content that has political opinion.
good thing reality isn’t a political opinion then
NPR fucking sane-washed trump all of 2024. They are partially to blame for this. Still support them but I expected more.
They did. They also shit all over Bernie for his two runs. I’m on board with your point.
It is almost like they tried to do honest journalism.
It’s worse if you have large private donors or companies funding your media, see fox news, twitter, Facebook etc. who then contr6what you can see, and what not.
Sounds like you’re not informed about NPR and PBS.
I think so, too. So I’m glad it doesn’t happen.
You sound like you could tell us a lot about poor practices. I think I’ll tune you out though, it seems like valueless content to me.
I’m cool with it. PBS can pay for itself.
eran_morad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is the reason I’ve added my NPR stations to my donations list. Fuck the republican traitor filth. Now and forever, every republican can fuck off and die.
takeda@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Same, I don’t want to lose my local stations.
eran_morad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
oh shit, propublica, good call.
SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I added NPR and PBS to my monthly donation list as well. I wonder how many others will contribute what they can now thanks to this investigation?