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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.
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Same, NPR, PBS and ProPublica I don't want to lose sources that still do real journalism.
oh shit, propublica, good call.
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?
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 virtue signalling, or the right's equivalent. 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.
Wait until fox news becomes federally funded and the official ~~lies~~ news of the government.
They could do even worse and make it Newsmax or neo OAN.
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
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?
Right on schedule.
Probably would have been yesterday if an opportunity to blame over 60 deaths on people not being white males didn’t appear.
More evil shit. All they can do is tear things down, never create.
Eat a blizzard of dicks my guy. Car Talk and Radiolab are fuckin bangers!
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.