Senate Passes Trump-Backed Rescission Plan to Defund PBS, NPR and Slash Bloated Foreign Aid

Valletta said:

JUST IN: Senate Passes Trump-Backed Rescission Plan to Defund PBS, NPR and Slash Bloated Foreign Aid | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

The Republican-controlled Senate narrowly approved a sweeping Trump-endorsed rescission bill that slashes nearly $9 billion in previously approved federal spending—including full defunding of PBS and NPR and deep cuts to U.S.

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It's great that Congress is acting on President Trump Executive Order to defund these partisan organizations.

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The government shouldn't (help) fund people who might make the government look bad when the government does things that might make the government “look bad”?
Okay, then.

Valletta said:

We cannot have one party control the media, and no way in the world should the government be using taxpayer money to do so.

NPR Has Zero Republicans, 87 Democrats on Editorial Staff, Says Senior Editor

In a widely publicized op-ed published Tuesday in The Free Press, a senior editor at National Public Radio (NPR) offered a heavy critique of his employer as he

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Democrats have the money, they outspent the Trump campaign by two to one. Let them use their own money if they wish, but forcing taxpayers to pay for them is moving toward a totalitarian government. By the way, what happened to "these organizations only get a tiny percentage of funding" from the government?

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The media isn’t monolithic, no matter how hard one wishes it to be.

Relax, it's all for show. There will still be public radio. I grew up listening to public radio, well before it went national in 1970, and I expect to continue doing so. Oh, and buy a shortwave receiver.

Pommer said:

The government shouldn't (help) fund people who might make the government look bad when the government does things that might make the government “look bad”?
Okay, then.

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If it was an even-handed approach that held everyone accountable in the public eye, then one could see it as a public good.

However, the criticism that PBS and NPR have a liberal bias isn't merely a fabrication, even independent watchdog organizations have concluded as much.


(AdFontes offers a similar assessment)


There are also watchdog groups that keep segment and guest tallies showing that liberal guests and perspectives on PBS outnumber conservative ones by a ratio 5:1. (not sure what that ratio looks like for NPR)


Now, I've heard the rebuttal before of "oh, well that's because the truth has a liberal bias", but that doesn't cut it with regards to media institutions that are getting public funding, because the temptation is often too strong to dangle that funding carrot as a way turn "our truth" into "THE truth" in the public eye.



That's where publicly funded news media creates a tricky circular incentive structure and feedback loop to try to navigate - ethically speaking.
(I believe I've heard that dynamic described before as: a zero sum game between "Watchdog vs. wallet")