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NPR & PBS Closing down?

The nonprofit institution that provided significant funding for PBS and NPR is disbanding after nearly 60 years in operation.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — created by Congress in 1967 — has been dissolved because of federal budget cuts pushed by the Trump administration, the CPB announced in a Jan. 5 news release.

"What has happened to public media is devastating,
” said Ruby Calvert, chair of CPB’s Board of Directors, in the release. "After nearly six decades of innovative, educational public television and radio service, Congress eliminated all funding for CPB, leaving the Board with no way to continue the organization or support the public media system that depends on it. Yet, even in this moment, I am convinced that public media will survive, and that a new Congress will address public media’s role in our country because it is critical to our children's education, our history, culture and democracy to do so."


Ruby says that what happened to public media is devastating. He is right, it is devastating that two geat
public funded organizations became an arm of the DNC.

We cannot publicly fund partisan media.
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trollslayer · 46-50, M

Sorry you have been led down the narrative that they are an arm of the DNC. Just because they say something critical of Trump does not make that true. But, that is how they are treated.
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
trollslayer · 46-50, M
@DogMan the partisan hearings?

I have watched PBS news or listened to NPR for years. They were critical if clinton, bush, and Obama, too. That is their job as journalists. Unfortunately lately, MAGA feels facts have a liberal bias, and think news needs to be Trump fluffers.

The only way I see public media becoming more “liberal” over the years is including more socially liberal elements i to their programs (a gay character on sesame street, for example). I don’t see them as leading this push, but rather responding to the changing spectrum of society.
Midlifemale · 61-69, M
@DogMan exactly. I have listened to NPR a few times and had to turn it off because mist of what they sais was far left news and interviews and criticism of the Trump administration. EVERYTHING they said was against conservative common sense issues. ...why we can have abortion rights, and why we can't let immigrants just walk into our country and why transgender surgery is not covered by insurance anymore...ALL of that was awful to listen to...
And that's one of the main reasons the funding was stopped.
I'm glad it will be gone
Gibbon · 70-79, M
No big loss. I can say from inside knowledge NPR has been extremely left for years. You couldn't be an employee and so much as mention any disagreement with the lefts ideals.
hunkalove · 70-79, M
I haven't owned a TV in 17 years. I don't miss any of it.
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AbbeyRhode · F
Good riddance. The kids get enough propaganda in the indoctrination centers that used to be schools, and the adults get their lies from the "news" media.
RodneyTrotter1 · 100+, M
@AbbeyRhode Thank reality for good old fashioned common sense and straight talking.
Adrift · 61-69, F
I miss the good old days when you could drive to work and listen to Howard Stern talk about farts.
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Lilnonames · F
💕thats sad
Time to end tax payer funded communist propaganda.
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