Brendan Carr described as “Trump’s Censorship Czar” as he launches media probes.

  • @eran_morad
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    711 month ago

    This is the reason I’ve added my NPR stations to my donations list. Fuck the republican traitor filth. Now and forever, every republican can fuck off and die.

    • @[email protected]
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      Same, NPR, PBS and ProPublica I don’t want to lose sources that still do real journalism.

      • @eran_morad
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        191 month ago

        oh shit, propublica, good call.

    • SuzyQ
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      111 month ago

      I added NPR and PBS to my monthly donation list as well. I wonder how many others will contribute what they can now thanks to this investigation?

  • Zier
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    Wait until fox news becomes federally funded and the official lies news of the government.

    • @zeppo
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      221 month ago

      They could do even worse and make it Newsmax or neo OAN.

    • Possibly linux
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      -161 month ago

      Honestly having the government fund news is asking for trouble. It would be different if they were very clear about only funding non bias articles and information but in this case they are funding private opinions.

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        The largest part of NPR’s funding comes from individual donations, followed by corporate donations. Federal funding makes up around 5% of the total – important, but not even close to their primary source of funds.

        if you’re concerned that 5% of their budget coming from government funding has undue influence over their editorial choices, you’d certainly be a lot more concerned about the 17% that comes from corporate donors. And when you compare that to private media’s funding, which is 100% from corporate sources…

  • @[email protected]
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    261 month ago

    They’ve been going after public media since Nixon. Of course, it would hit their key demographic–rural areas–the hardest, who rely on public media for things like emergency alerts. Not to mention public media is the only source of local quality journalism for a lot of places.

    But who cares about all that when we can let Sinclair Broadcasting take over and get rid of all that “woke” stuff?

    • @Hobbes_Dent
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      Probably would have been yesterday if an opportunity to blame over 60 deaths on people not being white males didn’t appear.

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    Last I checked, they both get less than 10% of their funding from the government, and that amount is less than 0.5% of our military budget.

    I’m not surprised by this, but it needs to be said: They need an efficiency checker for their efficiency checkers. In and of itself, trying to defund NPR and PBS is just wasting money and time on virtue signalling, or the right’s equivalent. So doge is off to a great start, lol.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 month ago

    I recently watched this wonderful video by Matt Baume that he released 3 months ago about the last time republicans wanted to defund PBS and NPR. The stated reasons and rational always change but its just hatred of non-commercial media

  • Possibly linux
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    -191 month ago

    I do think it is poor practice to have the government fund content that has political opinion.

    • Pup Biru
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      141 month ago

      good thing reality isn’t a political opinion then

    • @TrickDacy
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      51 month ago

      Sounds like you’re not informed about NPR and PBS.

    • The Real King Gordon
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      51 month ago

      NPR fucking sane-washed trump all of 2024. They are partially to blame for this. Still support them but I expected more.

      • TacoButtPlug
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        61 month ago

        They did. They also shit all over Bernie for his two runs. I’m on board with your point.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      It’s worse if you have large private donors or companies funding your media, see fox news, twitter, Facebook etc. who then contr6what you can see, and what not.

    • @[email protected]
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      01 month ago

      You sound like you could tell us a lot about poor practices. I think I’ll tune you out though, it seems like valueless content to me.