“The CPB Board shall cease direct funding to NPR and PBS, consistent with my Administration’s policy to ensure that Federal funding does not support biased and partisan news coverage,” he added. “The CPB Board shall cancel existing direct funding to the maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding.”
Trump further directed the CPB to end indirect funding to NPR and PBS, including by “ensuring that licensees and permittees of public radio and television stations, as well as any other recipients of CPB funds, do not use Federal funds for NPR and PBS.” The president gave the CPB until June 30 to effectuate his directive.
It's about fuckin' time. NPR especially has been pissing on Trump's shoes for the better (bad choice of words) part of the last decade. I usta be a huge supporter of WBGO in Newark - a jazz station primarily - but even they shade the lefty-loonie bullshit a bit too much. Fuck 'em all If they can't survive on their own, let 'em croak.
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Could be that at one time, when media were openly partisan, a more neutral news source, one not dependent on advertising which could be curtailed if the medium expressed unpopular views, was of great value to society.
ReplyDeleteAnd very interesting, but not commercially viable, shows have been made by PBS and other public creators. I think of "Alone in the Wilderness," the life of Dick Proenneke who, at age 50, build a cabin in the wilds of Alaska and lived there for 30 years. He rolled a LOT of film, and some folks cut it together for this great documentary. It would never find a place among the trash and garbage so frequent on commercial TV. But, those times have long gone, and so should public funding of most media.
Oh, noes! That means even more on-air pleading for donations.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Soros can spare a few bucks...
Quit watching it 30 years ago or more.
ReplyDeleteBack in the Seventies I once donated to Nebraska Public TV. Shortly after that they had a number of leftist programs and nothing to balance it. If it hadn't been for Monty Pythons Flying Circus episodes I never would have watched NPTV again and not much later I stopped entirely. These public stations have outlived their need by decades what with all the other available options and there is absolutely no need for my taxes to go to pay for leftist propoganda.
ReplyDeleteLong gone are the days of "Click and Clack - the Tappet Brothers", and "A Prairie Home Companion" that was actually funny and Politically neutral. I have long lobbied for the US Government selling NPR/PBS to the Democratic Party Committee for $1.00 and then letting them pay their own way, preaching to their own choir.
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