re: I made a list of everything i'm going to miss without PBS and NPR

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I feel like there are people out there who would rather fund this than fund jets for billionaires. Then again, such people aren’t in a cult.

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by c on z

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If you depend on govt cheese, then no tears are shed when it dries up.

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Unless you're "too big to fail' in which case the cheese flows like a fondue fountain.

There’s a lot of sane, moderate true liberals within NPR that were sounding the alarm the last decade, that sooner or later they would have to face the repercussions. The vast majority of Americans appreciate PBS, it’s the political faction of NPR and their news shows that have completely ruined it for everyone else.

Straight from the horse’s mouth…

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I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think

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URI BERLINER, A SENIOR BUSINESS EDITOR AT NPR, SAYS HE STARTED SOUNDING THE ALARM INTERNALLY WHEN HE NOTICED A BIAS CREEP INTO THE NETWORK’S COVERAGE.

You know the stereotype of the NPR listener: an EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag–carrying coastal elite. It doesn’t precisely describe me, but it’s not far off. I’m Sarah Lawrence–educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley.

I fit the NPR mold. I’ll cop to that.

So when I got a job here 25 years ago, I never looked back. As a senior editor on the business desk where news is always breaking, we’ve covered upheavals in the workplace, supermarket prices, social media, and AI.

It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.

In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.

If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh.

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Nailed it.

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So far there are 67 lunatics on here.

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I don't have a super strong opinion on PBS, and I don't recall ever listening to NPR in my life. But for those against the elimination of the CPB, I don't think supporting the use of your tax dollars for something you actually find valuable is necessarily indicative of being a lunatic. And as (according to Grok's math) this will stave off national insolvency for a grand total of less than 2.5 hours, it does feel a bit like empty grandstanding.

I understand that "every little bit helps" and "we have to start somewhere." It just seems like we never move past these little cuts onto anything substantial.

Spot on

If I believed it was actually about cutting the deficit or part of a long term plan to balance our budget, then sure - tough loss but I get it.

It seems a lot more like theater and petty revenge than it does about affecting any sort of real efficiency, much like the rest of this administration’s playbook.

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If I believed it was actually about cutting the deficit or part of a long term plan to balance our budget, then sure - tough loss but I get it.

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Exactly. the other thing I don't understand is that even if it's a service that isn't popular with a number of Americans, it's still a service, and one of few the government provides to all Americans. And there are millions of Americans that use it. So why not start with cutting things that do little to nothing for almost anyone except those elected to high office and/or affiliated with a government contract especially when it's a drop in the bucket compared to bailouts, foreign aid, 'black budgets', endless studies, ill advised/doomed to fail defense projects, congressional perks graft, waste.... etc?

Why start with an actual service that actually provides a tangible function for taxpayers

PBS and NPR are a mouthpiece for the democrats.

We should not be paying federal funds to push a political agenda to the public.

Let them die.

Only way to fix it is burn it down and start over. It’s way to infected with ideology

If they get private funding to survive then more power to them and they can do whatever they want.

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Their funding is cut for the next year They don't have to go out of business they can get private support charitables there's no reason that the local PBS stations can't survive this

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If they create content the public wants to consume, then they’ll attract sponsors and thrive. If not, then they’re doomed. That’s how the free market works.

Which, they only have themselves to blame for this. Had PBS and NPR, especially NPR, not become so overtly biased in favor of leftist causes and the Democrat Party, this would not have happened.