Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

Re:Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations by rectang on Friday August 01, 2025 @02:23PM (#44760497)

I’m socially liberal by American standards, but on the subject of government funding for media I feel like a small-c conservative. Government funded media faces constant pressure to become propaganda.

I’m rather looking forward to public radio programming that would strike you as liberally biased, now that public radio productions no longer have to please Republicans in government.

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Re:Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations by autoexec on Friday August 01, 2025 @04:14PM (#44761936)

Do you have examples where PBS or NPR were forced by the government to spew maga talking points? You'd think that if public media in the US were busy pleasing Republicans all day and all night they wouldn't have had their funding cut

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Re:Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations by rectang on Saturday August 02, 2025 @01:24PM (#44769464)

It's not like "spewing maga talking points" is the only way to show fealty — accepting Republican framing of issues suffices, such as "the national debt is a problem so the only option is to cut entitlements". The joke goes that "NPR stands for Nice Polite Republicans".

I look forward to at least some of public radio going full pinko commie since Republican as a group have spent so much time demonizing them. With the government funding gone, there's no point in trying to stay in Republican good graces when public radio's listeners and donors are elsewhere.

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