Will this week be remembered as the time where NPR and PBS disappeared?

[Stuartbirdan2]

PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger on CNN this morning: “People often struggle to come up with examples” of left-wing bias at PBS.

Actually, it’s not a struggle at all.

Here are just a few of PBS’s biggest whiffs:

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Do you have a credible source?

 

[Stuartbirdan2]

Congressional Republicans voted to strip more than $1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) this week, a move that could force local radio and television stations to consolidate, cut services or shutter altogether, particularly in rural areas.

The CPB is a publicly funded nonprofit that subsidizes more than 1,500 NPR, PBS and local radio and television stations across the country. Congress has typically earmarked $535 million annually for the corporation

 

[Stuartbirdan2]

Their report, obtained by The New York Times, was bleak. Up to 18 percent of about 1,000 member stations would close, it found, impacting the Midwest, the South and the West the most.

Curley estimated that 65 of 433 stations he analyzed, about 15 percent, would be at risk of closing in the next three years if they lost federal funding

 

[Stuartbirdan2]

Their report, obtained by The New York Times, was bleak. Up to 18 percent of about 1,000 member stations would close, it found, impacting the Midwest, the South and the West the most.

Curley estimated that 65 of 433 stations he analyzed, about 15 percent, would be at risk of closing in the next three years if they lost federal funding

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5408014-rural-stations-vulnerable-to-cpb-cuts/

 

[JWBooth]

15% is all the US government funds for NPR and PBS...

That much huh? Now their donors can pony up some more.

 

[Mashmont]

This isn't a tax bill, it is a recissions bill.

I'd be very pleased if it were the end NPR in its current form. I'd be OK with it if it were objective and got no taxpayer dollars.

 

[JWBooth]

I'd be very pleased if it were the end NPR in its current form. I'd be OK with it if it were objective and got no taxpayer dollars.

I don’t care if they have philosophical leanings or not, I don’t want to have my pocket picked to fund somebody else’s agenda.

 

[Lisa558]

I don’t care if they have philosophical leanings or not, I don’t want to have my pocket picked to fund somebody else’s agenda.

Agree. The government should not be involved in funding news programs. It’s just one step removed from state-controlled programming - like you find in North Korea.

 

[alang1216]

Congress is having a procedural vote today to cancel $9.4 billion in funds from international aid, PBS, and NPR. If the vote is passed, the wailing and gnashing of teeth will echo forever.

Senate to move on Trump's request to cancel billions in foreign aid, NPR and PBS funding​

"Washington — The Senate could move forward as soon as Tuesday on a request from the White House to claw back $9.4 billion in funds for international aid and public broadcasting as Congress faces a Friday deadline to act.

In what's known as a rescissions package, the White House in June requested that Congress cancel billions in funding that had previously been approved for spending, starting the clock on a process that gives lawmakers 45 days to act.

The move seeks to make permanent some of the Department of Government Efficiency's spending cuts, with the package's primary focus being slashing foreign aid. But it would also effectively cut off federal funding for NPR and PBS.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, said he hoped to hold the first procedural votes Tuesday, though he was still having conversations with some members who are resistant to pulling back all of the funding.

Last month, the House approved the request, overcoming opposition from all Democrats and four Republicans."

Senate to move on Trump's request to cancel billions in foreign aid, NPR and PBS funding

I donate and hope they stick around. I predict that, like much that Trump has done, once we get to see the effects we'll reverse his policies piecemeal.

 

[22lcidw]

I donate and hope they stick around. I predict that, like much that Trump has done, once we get to see the effects we'll reverse his policies piecemeal.

You are moving for Socialist to communist. A mayoral candidate in New York, one a few over the last couple years is promoting government stores and markets. You have taxed people into near extinction in some parts of the nation.

 

[OODA_Loop]

 

[JGalt]

I donate and hope they stick around. I predict that, like much that Trump has done, once we get to see the effects we'll reverse his policies piecemeal.

Just keep repeating this to yourself, you'll be fine.

Everything always works out, it is a poor heart that never rejoices, nothing is hopeless, while there's life there's hope, fate has a plan, all is well, there's light at the end of the tunnel, every cloud has a silver lining.

 

[alang1216]

You are moving for Socialist to communist. A mayoral candidate in New York, one a few over the last couple years is promoting government stores and markets. You have taxed people into near extinction in some parts of the nation.

WOW!!! I did all that just by donating to NPR? Who knew!

 

[alang1216]

Just keep repeating this to yourself, you'll be fine.

Everything always works out, it is a poor heart that never rejoices, nothing is hopeless, while there's life there's hope, fate has a plan, all is well, there's light at the end of the tunnel, every cloud has a silver lining.

I like your mantra of platitudes and I agree with it and I do believe we'll be fine. As I optimistically wrote, I predict that, like much that Trump has done, once we get to see the effects we'll reverse his policies piecemeal.

 

[Lisa558]

I like your mantra of platitudes and I agree with it and I do believe we'll be fine. As I optimistically wrote, I predict that, like much that Trump has done, once we get to see the effects we'll reverse his policies piecemeal.

America voted to reverse the Democrats’ policies.

 

[alang1216]

America voted to reverse the Democrats’ policies.

America did, Americans did not.

 

[JGalt]

I like your mantra of platitudes and I agree with it and I do believe we'll be fine. As I optimistically wrote, I predict that, like much that Trump has done, once we get to see the effects we'll reverse his policies piecemeal.

What "effects" are you referring to? Do you mean things will go back to the way they were under Biden? The 9.1% inflation rate, high gas prices, supply line disruptions and shortages

Do you need a reminder of what it was like living in Joe Biden's America?

During the Biden/Harris presidency...

• Promised on several occasions that he would "end fossil fuels"

• Later stated “We’re going to need oil for at least another decade”

• Gasoline that rose over two times the price it was in 2018

• Ended Keystone XL pipeline while waiving sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2

• Suspected US involvement in the bombing of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline

• The price of oil jumped up to $130 per barrel

• Drained US Strategic Oil Reserve to the lowest level since 1984

• Begged Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for oil

• Inflation rate rose as high as 9.1%, which was almost 5 times higher than it was in 2019

• Dumped billions of dollars down the black hole of "Global Warming"

• U.S. household wealth down $13.5 trillion in 2022 - Second fastest decline on record

• Average middle-class family came up about $6,000 short of purchasing power

• The DOW dropped 6,700 points in only a year

• Stock market lost $9 trillion dollars worth of value in only two years

• Retirement accounts lost $3 trillion dollars

• 30 year fixed mortgages rose by 4.43% in only two years, to 7.75%

• Home prices soared 43% in only two years and housing sales slumped

• Median asking rent prices rose 79.7% in only two years

• Bankrupted landlords by excusing rent payments

• US homelessness jumped 12% in 2023 to record high of 653,000 individuals

• Commercial Chapter 11 filings increased 68% in first half of 2023

• Grocery prices increased by 13.5% in only two years

• The price of electricity rose by 15.8% in only two years

• Americans paid $2,250 more in increased energy costs since Biden was elected

• Hefty tax increases on the lower and middle class

• Raised the tax burden on Americans making as little as $20,000/year.

• 84,000 new IRS agents arming and training to be home invaders

• Use of DOJ and FBI to harass political opponents

• A broken election system corrupt with fraud, sometimes taking months to count

• Wholesale mailing of ballots, ballot drop boxes, and illegal ballot harvesting

• Used a complicit media to lie, distort facts, and disseminate disinformation

• Conducting covert raids on American citizens and confiscating personal property

• Supply line disruptions, backorders, items out of stock or unavailable

• Massive backlog of cargo ships at US ports in 2022

• Sporadic shortages on grocery store shelves

• Air transportation disrupted, thousands of flight cancellations in 2022

• FAA system outages that disrupted thousands of flights in 2023

• Food-processing plants mysteriously burning down

• Record prices for eggs and poultry

• Record number of ecological disasters, train derailments, chemical spills, and fires

• Thousands of small businesses destroyed in order to benefit mega-corporations

• Continuing monumental trade deficit with China

• Allowed Communist China to operate "Police Stations" in American cities

• Allowed Chinese spy balloon to cross entire country, spying on military sites

• Used a $400,000 missile to shoot down a $12 hobbyist balloon over Alaska

• More COVID deaths than in 2020

• Vaccine mandates which caused deaths and debilitating health conditions

• Vaccine mandates which caused massive job losses for those who refused compliance

• Continued government funding for Planned Parenthood

• Eliminated Medicaid work requirements

• Increased food stamp giveaways by more than $1 billion a month, without Congress

• A whole generation of kids physically and psychologically damaged by prison-style lockdowns

• Subjecting young girls to creepy boys posing as "transgenders" in girl's locker rooms

• Stealing women's ability to fairly compete by allowing transgender males in women's sports

• Subjecting children to pornographic "Drag shows" and grooming them to be sex objects

• The promotion of transgenderism in schools, resulting in the genital and fertility mutilation
of children and adolescents by unethical medical practices and Big Pharma.

• Mass shootings occurring sometimes three times a week

• An exponentially-spiraling epidemic of violent crime and drugs

• Shutting down private prisons and turning inmates loose

• Fentanyl seizures up 745 percent

• 100,000 fentanyl deaths during Biden's first year of presidency

• 120% increase in opioid deaths in just two years

• Encouraged illegals to "surge" across the border without reason for amnesty

• A neutered Immigration and Customs Enforcement, virtually stopping arrests and deportations

• 4.9 million illegals crossing US border within only two years

• Added non-citizens to the census

• Immigration policies that dispersed COVID, crime, and potential terrorism throughout the US

• 900,000 "gotaways" who eluded apprehension and disappeared into American communities

• Record numbers of illegals dying while crossing the border

• Border Patrol arresting 98 who were on the terror watch list in 2022, 3X the last 5 years combined

• A President who wouldn't visit the border and said he had "More important things going on."

• A dishonorable withdrawal from Afghanistan that cost 13 American soldiers their lives

• Authorized drone strike killing 10 civilians, including 7 children, instead of ISIS-K operative

• $7.12 billion worth of US military equipment and weaponry left to the Taliban

• Hundreds of US citizens and Afghans left behind in Afghanistan after the withdrawal

• People falling out of the wheel wells of aircraft leaving Afghanistan

• A weakened US military more concerned with "political correctness" than creating soldiers

• A weakened US military via destructive anti-white racism and transgender-promoting policies

• Record low enlistment numbers

• A revitalized Russian oil industry, despite US sanctions

• A war in Ukraine that has cost the US billions of dollars and killed thousands

• Increased possibility of nuclear war with Russia

• Traded an America-hating lesbian doper basketball player for a terrorist Russian arms dealer,
while leaving an American Marine in a Russian prison

• North Korea continuing to expand their nuclear enrichment and missile programs

• A stronger Iran increasing their funding for Hamas and Hezbollah

• China became more energy and militarily dominant

• A senile, angry, and incompetent president who fell off of a bicycle, fell up stairs, insulted
half the people in America, labeled people as "terrorists", divided the country, and tried to incite
a civil war.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Apparently Nightline did a Trash Trump special last week.
Media analysis was this -
1) There were over 40 guest - only 3 were pro Trump
2) It was 180 minutes - only 2 minutes and 18 seconds were positive statements about Trump.
The rest were all negative.

There is no argument that they are nothing more than a propaganda machine for the Democratic party - and therefore deserve not one penny of public funding.

 

[justoffal]

You have that evidence? Why can’t we have the Epstein evidence.

You are singing to the choir...
I'm all for whatever they have on Epstein to be produced. Somehow I don't think the issue is just as simple as partisan hackery. There is a real danger that whatever we see as a list could involve identities that have nothing to do with Epstein or his Island. How the hell do we know anymore what's real and what's not real? I would very much like to see a list of names and guilty parties but how do I know I'm not being duped?

Wouldn't it be the ideal party apparatchik to produce a list with the names of all of your enemies on it?

 

[Lisa558]

America did, Americans did not.

1) I said America, did I not?

2) And most Americans DID vote to reverse the Democrat#’ harmful policies, with a clean sweep in all the swing states.

Are you STILL refusing to recognize that most Americans don’t want the leftist agenda - ESPECIALLY that of protecting illegals. Keep covering your ears as to what most people want, and keep losing elections.