Are they trying to get boomers to become Maoist Third Worldist? Because if more of these boomers start going to town halls and calling Republicans threatening to kill them for fucking with Medicare (and now NPR) I think we might be heading there.
I saw the post on Whitehouse website in my feed, it’s written so hostile and misleading. They clearly want public broadcasts to be propaganda, though if their own site is an example, their bias is so blatant and their writing so amateur that it won’t fool any regular NPR or PBS follower any time soon.
Too bad there’s already plenty of privately owned propaganda…
This isn’t at all surreal to me. We saw this during the Trump Presidency #1. Just a toxic PoS with an insufferable staff spewing hostility.
And what did Biden do? Business as fucking usual. Taking the higher ground BS.
If 2028 is a fair election, and a hypothetical Democrat gets elected, I’m expecting more of the same. If Trump gets his 3rd term as he freaking demanded that happened, well – we continue to move the goalpost of rock bottom looks like.
Off the top of my head I don’t know if PBS (likely the same as NPR) but NPR is not funded by fucking Congress!!! You fucking idiots don’t know what Congress does or does not fund. NPR gets grants from CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) which was created by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which LBJ signed into law. CPB only accounts for 1% of NPR’s annual budget.
If the dumbass wants something legitimate to complain about, then complain about what CPB gives grants for.
EDIT: I realize the article mentions CPB, and I clearly wrote this before reading it. My point stands. Congress does not allocate any money directly to either NPR or PBS. If these cultural institutions are going to be attacked by clueless people, someone better be explaining what they got wrong.
Funding for NPR comes from dues and fees paid by member stations, underwriting from corporate sponsors, and annual grants from the publicly funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR
The CPB’s annual budget is composed almost entirely of an annual appropriation from Congress plus interest on those funds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting
The big NPR stations in major cities get almost no money from CPB, but it’s a critical source of funding for rural stations. Sometimes the NPR station is the only source of news available in rural areas.
If the government cuts funding to CPB, big city NPR stations will be fine, but rural listeners might go from 1 radio station in range to 0 radio stations.
Like I said, just 1%. I should have said it wouldn’t be good if CPB grants stopped coming. I’m just more upset that the direct line of attack misunderstands what is really happening. These organizations are very important. To blatantly say Congress funds them isn’t just incorrect but potentially harmful to how other organizations that rely on outside money are treated.
Yep.
NPR operates independently of the U.S. government. And while federal money is important to the overall public media system, NPR gets less than 1% of its annual budget, on average, from federal sources.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-affiliated-media
There’s an actual silver lining here: “will ask Congress”.
Holy shit, they’re admitting there are other branches of the government, and that they have to be asked for something, instead of simply ordered or ignored.
Speaking of radio. They used doge to kill VOA and Radio Free Europe funding (perhaps that’s where the “ask the congress” comes from). As I understand a judge reinstated the funding, so the next thing trump did was shuttinh down the satellite that was responsible for broadcasting to Russia.
Shows who his real masters are.
The fucking balls of Donald Trump calling NPR and PBS grifters… and you just know he’s reveling in people’s anger about this.
I think he actually gets off on triggering people by making accusations of exactly what he does.
It’s the Roy Cohn method. Accuse others first of what you are doing or will do, and never ever admit a mistake but instead double down. That’s it. It’s completely intentional and that’s the one rule Trump has followed.
you make a great point, and i don’t think most people understand quite how satisfying it is to the soulless to hear cries from souls. these people are beyond evil as we define it. i’ve been trying to put my finger on it for almost a decade now, but i think you’ve nailed it down.
Black has always been white.
Orange is the new black
Donold is an expert on grifts.
Every accusation is a confession.
the party of projection strikes again. if theyre claiming others might be doing it, they absolutely are doing it.
this is just the white house admitting its an administration full of grifters.
without doubt a clear and present danger to the established government.
Why is it that every accusation they throw is direct projection? Tell me one thing the Trumpy Bois have accused someone of doing that they haven’t done themselves
Because they know “I don’t do that, YOU do that” sounds like a weak, unconvincing response and that most people are dumb.
It’s this exactly. It muddies the legitimate criticism.
Oh no they’ve learned the word grift. Expect to hear this a lot more now
So now they’re trying to redefine the meaning of ‘grift’ as well, are they. Fucking arseholes.
Mr Rogers was selling fentanyl and Big Bird runs guns for the cartels. I’m glad someone finally has the courage to stand up to these monsters. It’s sarcasm, of course.
Pot: “oh, hey!”
Kettle: “didn’t think i’d see you here!”
This is not a pot calling the kettle black situation
i guess not. you can’t expect ALL my bad jokes to land, right?
The definition of projection
Sez the guy hawking golden gym shoes and self-signed junk guitars.
I think some donor saw all of PBS’s nature documentaries and small community documentaries and decided they needed to be silenced. It wouldn’t. Federal funding of either isn’t large enough to end them but end federal funding and NPR and PBS being party neutral can then switch to being against the anti-environmentalist and imperialism party
