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Restoring funding for NPR/PBS should be among the first things passed...and doubling it! "
Try and keep up with the news, candy.
The historic investment comes months after Congress voted to pull $1.1 billion in funding already allotted to public broadcasting.
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PR announced this week that it has received $113 million in charitable donations, the largest sum the public media network has taken in since Joan Beverly Kroc, the widow of McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc,
left more than $200 million to the organization in 2003. The funding arrives as NPR and public radio stations across the country navigate severe financial strain under the
Trump Administration and Congress’s elimination of all federal funding for public media last summer.
Philanthropist Connie Ballmer, the wife of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, contributed $80 million to fund a technological overhaul aimed at helping NPR reach audiences across digital platforms and devices. “I support NPR because an informed public is the bedrock of our society, and democracy requires strong, independent journalism,” Ballmer, a former member of the NPR Foundation board,
said in a statement to the network. “My hope is that this commitment provides the stability and the spark NPR needs to innovate boldly and strengthen its national network.”
And woke companies would line up to buy ad space on NPR.