Urge Congress: Save Public Media

[Loulit01]

Public media is facing its most immediate and serious threat yet.

The House has passed a rescissions package that would claw back $1.1 billion in public media funding already approved by law. If enacted, the impact on local stations would be swift and severe.

The Senate will take up the bill next. Send a message now urging your Senators to vote against rescinding public media funding.

Clawing back this funding – about $1.60 per person each year – wouldn’t just force stations to scale back – it would dismantle essential services that countless communities count on. From life-saving emergency alerts to local reporting and storytelling, and educational resources that support families, job seekers and teachers – these services exist because public media is committed to serving everyone, regardless of income or zip code. In many rural and underserved areas, the loss could be total. Stations could shut down entirely, leaving entire communities without access to trusted, essential information.
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I can't give the URL because it would dox me. But if get this email, please take the very short time to fill it out and email it to your senators. If you don't get it, email your senators anyway. It's easy to do.

 

[aociswundumho]

State-run media is yet another terrible left-wing idea. It’s nothing more than a way for the rotten government to influence/control society. Government media always starts with “educational content” and ends with propaganda. It trains people to trust the state and accept its narratives. You don’t get truth, you get propaganda paid for by the taxpayer.

And let’s not pretend it’s neutral. Watch pbs or listen to npr as I sometimes do. It's not 'public', it’s progressive, which is another way of saying it's shit.

I'd happily pay $1.60 per year to abolish it entirely.

 

[Helix]

If Democrats ever manage to win again, they need to undo as much Republican destruction as possible on day one.

 

[OrphanSlug]

My understanding is what was voted on in the House was a “rescissions” package. Clawing back $8.3 billion from prior approved foreign aid and $1.1 billion from prior approved to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (funding to NPR and PBS.) Some outlets report it was one of the "proposed cuts" by DOGE just making it to the House floor to vote on.

It's future in the Senate is a question mark, just as the "big Beautiful Bill" still is.

But to the OP's point, this goes after political targets that end up being a big middle finger to both rural America and inner city lowest income. Places and conditions where more mainstream media access still comes with an inherent cost of connectivity. Programming changes as well.

Cruelty and political revenge is the point, who is harmed they wear as a badge of honor.

 

[InWalkedBud]

Link: House votes to kill funding for public media

The House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation Thursday to eliminate the next two years of federal funding for public media outlets...

Only 2 years? WTF? You know those little hairy nodules between your legs, Republicans? They're called balls. Use them, FFS. The GOP are only marginally less reprehensible than the Dems. Two sides of the same rancid coin.

 

[Girlpower]

Public media is facing its most immediate and serious threat yet.

The House has passed a rescissions package that would claw back $1.1 billion in public media funding already approved by law. If enacted, the impact on local stations would be swift and severe.

The Senate will take up the bill next. Send a message now urging your Senators to vote against rescinding public media funding.

Clawing back this funding – about $1.60 per person each year – wouldn’t just force stations to scale back – it would dismantle essential services that countless communities count on. From life-saving emergency alerts to local reporting and storytelling, and educational resources that support families, job seekers and teachers – these services exist because public media is committed to serving everyone, regardless of income or zip code. In many rural and underserved areas, the loss could be total. Stations could shut down entirely, leaving entire communities without access to trusted, essential information.
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I can't give the URL because it would dox me. But if get this email, please take the very short time to fill it out and email it to your senators. If you don't get it, email your senators anyway. It's easy to do.

Tell them to quit being liberal and we will fund them.

 

[Noodlegawd]

Public media is facing its most immediate and serious threat yet.

The House has passed a rescissions package that would claw back $1.1 billion in public media funding already approved by law. If enacted, the impact on local stations would be swift and severe.

The Senate will take up the bill next. Send a message now urging your Senators to vote against rescinding public media funding.

Clawing back this funding – about $1.60 per person each year – wouldn’t just force stations to scale back – it would dismantle essential services that countless communities count on. From life-saving emergency alerts to local reporting and storytelling, and educational resources that support families, job seekers and teachers – these services exist because public media is committed to serving everyone, regardless of income or zip code. In many rural and underserved areas, the loss could be total. Stations could shut down entirely, leaving entire communities without access to trusted, essential information.
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I can't give the URL because it would dox me. But if get this email, please take the very short time to fill it out and email it to your senators. If you don't get it, email your senators anyway. It's easy to do.

If you like it so much, why don't YOU pay for it.

 

[Felis Leo]

If Democrats ever manage to win again, they need to undo as much Republican destruction as possible on day one.

I think we need to have a left-wing Trump. Someone just as dedicated to doing good with as much disregard for tradition, norms, rules, and propriety as Trump was committed to doing evil with total disregard. And just as willing to viciously punish those who get in his/her way.

 

[Loulit01]

If you like it so much, why don't YOU pay for it.

I'm busy paying for Trump's tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

 

[Helix]

I think we need to have a left-wing Trump. Someone just as dedicated to doing good with as much disregard for tradition, norms, rules, and propriety as Trump was committed to doing evil with total disregard. And just as willing to viciously punish those who get in his/her way.

Sadly, the rules seem to be no rules now. I have to point out, though, that I have doubts that red states will sit there and take it like blue states currently are.

 

[MaryP]

Public media is facing its most immediate and serious threat yet.

The House has passed a rescissions package that would claw back $1.1 billion in public media funding already approved by law. If enacted, the impact on local stations would be swift and severe.

The Senate will take up the bill next. Send a message now urging your Senators to vote against rescinding public media funding.

Clawing back this funding – about $1.60 per person each year – wouldn’t just force stations to scale back – it would dismantle essential services that countless communities count on. From life-saving emergency alerts to local reporting and storytelling, and educational resources that support families, job seekers and teachers – these services exist because public media is committed to serving everyone, regardless of income or zip code. In many rural and underserved areas, the loss could be total. Stations could shut down entirely, leaving entire communities without access to trusted, essential information.
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I can't give the URL because it would dox me. But if get this email, please take the very short time to fill it out and email it to your senators. If you don't get it, email your senators anyway. It's easy to do.

Yes, do! Only station I watch, and that's the truth.

 

[MaryP]

If you like it so much, why don't YOU pay for it.

I do. I have a sustaining membership.

 

[MaryP]

Tell them to quit being liberal and we will fund them.

They aren't your mouthpiece, boo hoo. It's the shows I like, anyway, and they aren't political.

 

[Noodlegawd]

I'm busy paying for Trump's tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

No, you're busy paying for a nearly-50% increase in Medicaid spending between 2019 and 2024.

 

[Loulit01]

No, you're busy paying for a nearly-50% increase in Medicaid spending between 2019 and 2024.

If we gave immigrants a path to citizenship we'd have more taxpayers funding Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid. But our birthright rate is 1.6 children per woman when 2.1 are needed to maintain our population, which is aging.

How do you think this will end?

 

[Noodlegawd]

If we gave immigrants a path to citizenship we'd have more taxpayers funding Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid. But our birthright rate is 1.6 children per woman when 2.1 are needed to maintain our population, which is aging.

How do you think this will end?

Not that your response has anything to do with my comment, but our population is too big, and needs to shrink, not grow.

And if all those undocumented workers became citizens, they would undoubtedly collect far more in social security, medicaid, medicare, SNAP, and welfare than they contribute, given that they overwhelmingly work very low-paying jobs.

 

[Loulit01]

Not that your response has anything to do with my comment, but our population is too big, and needs to shrink, not grow.

It is shrinking. We're at 1.6 births per woman when 2.1 is needed to maintain the population.

And if all those undocumented workers became citizens, they would undoubtedly collect far more in social security, medicaid, medicare, SNAP, and welfare than they contribute, given that they overwhelmingly work very low-paying jobs.

But if we educate their children, we restore balance. Otherwise our aging population will bankrupt us.

 

[CLAX1911]

Public media is facing its most immediate and serious threat yet.

The House has passed a rescissions package that would claw back $1.1 billion in public media funding already approved by law. If enacted, the impact on local stations would be swift and severe.

The Senate will take up the bill next. Send a message now urging your Senators to vote against rescinding public media funding.

Clawing back this funding – about $1.60 per person each year – wouldn’t just force stations to scale back – it would dismantle essential services that countless communities count on. From life-saving emergency alerts to local reporting and storytelling, and educational resources that support families, job seekers and teachers – these services exist because public media is committed to serving everyone, regardless of income or zip code. In many rural and underserved areas, the loss could be total. Stations could shut down entirely, leaving entire communities without access to trusted, essential information.
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I can't give the URL because it would dox me. But if get this email, please take the very short time to fill it out and email it to your senators. If you don't get it, email your senators anyway. It's easy to do.

No public media should be shuttered on principal alone with saving 1.1 billion dollars is just a bonus. We don't need a state-run propaganda organization.

 

[Gladiator]

Whoever opposes any Federal spending cut, should specify where an equivalent savings should be exacted, or an increase of which taxes.

There are not enough voters agreeing on the same spending cuts, or tax increases, to balance the Federal budget.

There are too many stingy voters, who desire too many services from the US Federal budget. Tax cutting is too popular.

 

[Logophile]

I think we need to have a left-wing Trump. Someone just as dedicated to doing good with as much disregard for tradition, norms, rules, and propriety as Trump was committed to doing evil with total disregard. And just as willing to viciously punish those who get in his/her way.

Lol!! You did. You had exactly what you describe for 4 years. In large part it was why your party was defeated. You don't remember??

 

[Felis Leo]

Lol!! You did. You had exactly what you describe for 4 years. In large part it was why your party was defeated. You don't remember??

 

[Logophile]

No public media should be shuttered on principal alone with saving 1.1 billion dollars is just a bonus. We don't need a state-run propaganda organization.

Well, I have to pay for it anyway and never watch its news hour so fine with me