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I’ve never heard Trump on the National Weather Service.
Get real. Trump exposed their bias with his hurricane sharpie, remember?
NPR will survive.Yep, NPR only gets 1% of its budget from the federal government. If NPR can’t survive without that 1%, something is seriously wrong.
They probably only have to last until the next administration, honestly.NPR will survive.
NPR in major markets it will survive.
In rural markets where it needs to be subsidized it will operate under diminished service.
Couldn't the tiny amount of difference also be made up by all the gigantic corporations and foundations that fund 90 plus percent of the rest of public broadcasting?No, a free press can be supported with some limited support, as we were doing.
I was being sarcastic, referring to Trump’s idiotic changing of the hurricane map with his sharpie, unable to admit he was mistaken about something very minor.I’ve never heard Trump on the National Weather Service.
I think that the particular shows are underwritten by corporations.Couldn't the tiny amount of difference also be made up by all the gigantic corporations and foundations that fund 90 plus percent of the rest of public broadcasting?
All this might be valid if the money went somewhere except tax cuts for the already ridiculously rich.Oh no what will people do when they don't get to see elmo. Oh wait I forgot it's not a 1989 they can use the internet
As opposed to tax cuts for folks that do not need them, just want them?That's a fancy way to say it doesn't exist
Interstates aren't free
Those things are also not free
So you don't pay any taxes how do you do that? And how much tax money you should be diverted from police and fire to fake programming very few people watch?
The rich got richer when the top bracket was 90%.I can't think of anything I want to defund if the left ever gets back in. Aside from ICE, obviously.
What I want to do is tax any church that delivered political opinions from the pulpit, and reinstate Reagan era taxation on the rich. At least. Maybe even Eisenhower era taxation.
Okay, I'm trying to follow you here. So we're talking about the very last mile into the tundra where they have nothing but NPR? And they're going to starve to death because they don't have morning-edition and fresh air?
And if you're talking about emergency broadcast type stuff, there are no other radio stations, no weather radio that reaches up there?
I don't know a lot about rural Alaska, but I just can't see how this Will increase their danger there that much if at all.
Plus, I'm not even going to the easy route of talking about the fact that federal funding is a small percentage for NPR, for example, and it can probably be made up through other means... better donation numbers or expanding the advertising that they're already doing.
Facepalm.The National Weather Service covers all 50 states, without a left leaning.
I would say the middle class needs tax cutsAs opposed to tax cuts for folks that do not need them, just want them?
Tax cuts isn't money going anywhere that's just not taking it. The money taxpayers earn is theirs they earned it.Thats where all the money is going. Or more accurately allows the tax cuts to be given by congress.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is among the first casualties of the claw back, which puts public radio and TV stations across the United States at risk of going dark. Scores of stations rely on government financing to fund their operations, especially those in rural areas. That has prompted public media advocates to raise concerns that listeners and viewers in those areas will be without access to news, cultural programming and potentially lifesaving emergency alerts.
PBS, NPR and some of the most popular programs associated with public broadcasting, such as “Sesame Street” and “All Things Considered,” will survive without the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. NPR and PBS get a relatively small portion of their annual budget from the corporation, and children's TV programs like “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood” are produced independently of those organizations.
Most major markets will keep the majority of their programming. Looks rural red state areas will be hardest hit.Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down
The company is among the first casualties of a vote to strip roughly $500 million in federal funding from NPR, PBS and local stations across the country.www.nytimes.com
CNN requires you to accept cookies? It didn’t for me. How odd.Provide a link that doesn’t require accepting any cookies.
Trump is raising middle class taxes. His tariffs are the largest tax increase in decades.I would say the middle class needs tax cuts
Tax cuts isn't money going anywhere that's just not taking it. The money taxpayers earn is theirs they earned it.
Money doesn't go to tax cuts you don't give somebody money when you don't take it from them.All this might be valid if the money went somewhere except tax cuts for the already ridiculously rich.
And if you don't ask for compensation for what you do for them that's your fault that's not slavery because you're volunteering.We are all just resources to them. We exist to facilitate their game of who can be the richest most powerful.
That can only happen through government Force at cannot happen through capitalism that's not how capitalism worksIt’s only a matter of time before we have poorhouses and indenture and company stores.
Yet here we are in the most wealthy country on the planet with the fewest people in poverty global definition none the US definition and that's because of capitalism.It’s the pattern of history. Those who cannot ever get enough feed their jones until they wreck the societies they operate in.
Then the cycle starts all over again.
But it's one you can opt out of. Essentially it's a voluntary tax versus theft thank you Trump that's exactly what I voted for.Trump is raising middle class taxes. His tariffs are the largest tax increase in decades.
Where do you get this idea that the government gives the money to billionaires it's the other way around.Also, the debt keeps increasing, because he’s just funneling the money saved to his billionaire donors.
I'm sorry to break it to you it's already controlled it has been for decades. Sinclair LLC already owns most local broadcasts in the affiliates that sponsor them. It's already controlled by a corporation and it has been since 71. They changed their name from Chesapeake television corporation to Sinclair broadcasting in 1985 so everything you've ever watched was curated for you since 71.It’s part of the plan to control the news and certainly at local levels. Cut off local news and control national news sources,
Well there was something in place that made it illegal to propagandize to the Americans called the Smith mundt act. Obama nullified that. That's why nobody trusts news anymore because they're all liars.which the have already begun to do. Control the news and it is easier to pimp propaganda on the way to fascism. Part of the process.
I think you're missing the picture here the smith-mundt ACT needs to be reinstatedLook at what Orban, MAGA demigod, has done and is doing.
Maybe CNN already has your cookies.CNN requires you to accept cookies? It didn’t for me. How odd.
Except that the change in revenue is just as real.Money doesn't go to tax cuts you don't give somebody money when you don't take it from them.
That would be like saying everyday I get given all the money in my wallet because nobody mugs me
We estimate that the modest tax savings for middle-class families will be erased by climbing energy costs, higher health insurance premiums and copays and dwindling student aid for kids who head to college or job training.What do you mean people don't have access to the internet? There are also tax cuts given to the middle class and will they pay the Lion's share of it so yeah.
Yes just like if the person that held you at gunpoint demands money from you and you don't have any he doesn't get the revenue.Except that the change in revenue is just as real.
No I cut and paste is your exchanging your time and labor for money the government isn't giving you anything it's just stealing.It's more like saying a cut in pay wouldn't hurt you because you're not spending any different.
It's always better than texting them out of existence.
So propaganda should only be for profit?It seems strange that they folded so quickly, after so much insistence that public money wasn't a big part of their budget. Why do liberals keep up with the ritual reassurance when they are so rapidly and predictably proved false???
Ultimately, despite good programming, taxpayer-funded programming was against theory in the U.S. The government wasn't supposed to be funding propaganda to push at the people - it was supposed to be up to the free market. So this isn't actually the wrong outcome (even if done for the wrong reasons).
Unfortunately - and unsurprisingly - that isn't stopping the governor of Texas from heavily backing the production of any movie he happens to personally agree with.
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