Brendan Carr described as “Trump’s Censorship Czar” as he launches media probes.
Wait until fox news becomes federally funded and the official
liesnews of the government.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.
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…
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.
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So if they only get 10 percent from gov, then no problem if that charity goes away.
They’re nonprofits. That 10% is probably crucial.
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.
Right on schedule.
I recently watched this wonderful video by Matt Baume that he released 3 months ago about the last time republicans wanted to defund PBS and NPR. The stated reasons and rational always change but its just hatred of non-commercial media
More evil shit. All they can do is tear things down, never create.
I do think it is poor practice to have the government fund content that has political opinion.
good thing reality isn’t a political opinion then
It’s worse if you have large private donors or companies funding your media, see fox news, twitter, Facebook etc. who then contr6what you can see, and what not.
Eat a blizzard of dicks my guy. Car Talk and Radiolab are fuckin bangers!
I’m cool with it. PBS and NPR can pay for themselves.
