Trump’s FCC chair investigates NPR and PBS, urges Congress to defund them
arstechnica.com
Brendan Carr described as “Trump’s Censorship Czar” as he launches media probes.

Brendan Carr described as “Trump’s Censorship Czar” as he launches media probes.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • Yozul@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 day ago

      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.

        • Universal Monk@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 days ago

          If people like them so much, then won’t be much of an ask to ask them to donate 10 percent more than they do now.

          Plus they won’t have to worry about the big bad Republicans ever again.

  • Zier@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    Wait until fox news becomes federally funded and the official lies news of the government.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Honestly having the government fund news is asking for trouble. It would be different if they were very clear about only funding non bias articles and information but in this case they are funding private opinions.

      • Sundray@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        2 days ago

        The largest part of NPR’s funding comes from individual donations, followed by corporate donations. Federal funding makes up around 5% of the total – important, but not even close to their primary source of funds.

        if you’re concerned that 5% of their budget coming from government funding has undue influence over their editorial choices, you’d certainly be a lot more concerned about the 17% that comes from corporate donors. And when you compare that to private media’s funding, which is 100% from corporate sources…

    • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Probably would have been yesterday if an opportunity to blame over 60 deaths on people not being white males didn’t appear.

  • TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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?

  • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.

  • eran_morad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 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.

    • SuzyQ@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      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?

    • takeda@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Same, NPR, PBS and ProPublica I don’t want to lose sources that still do real journalism.