Trump Terminates NPR, PBS Federal Funding
May 2nd, 2025I’ve always thought of NPR as The New York Times on the radio and PBS as The New York Times on the TV.
It’s what would be pumped into those nutrient agar tanks in The Matrix. Professionally educated ignoramuses bathe in that system maintaining schlock and think of themselves as well informed intellectuals.
Get that NPR handbag out for the recumbent bicycle ride to Trader Joes. Tenure in the next five years. Maybe ten. Harris Walz 2024 sticker. Even now. Especially now. Rebel.
I have to stop. The schadenfreude is making me giddy.
I know it won’t last long. My guess is more corporate sponsorships will ooze into the works to fill any void caused by these cuts (assuming they happen at all).
Via: New York Post:
President Trump signed an executive order late Thursday terminating federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
NPR and PBS, which have long been targeted for cuts by conservatives, both receive partial funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which the president argued is unnecessary in the current media environment.
“Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence,” Trump wrote in the order.
“I have to stop. The schadenfreude is making me giddy.” TOTALLY get that.
“I know it won’t last long. My guess is more corporate sponsorships will ooze into the works to fill any void caused by these cuts (assuming they happen at all).”
Yeah, it actually might be the best thing that the whores at these outlets could ever get — unlimited corporate sponsorship (which they already get, btw) to spew all that corporate-approved bullshit.
https://foundation.pbs.org/ways-to-give/foundations-and-corporations/
https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances
A while back I was denigrating “mainstream news propaganda” in an email to my sister, who replied with something like, “well, we don’t listen to mainstream news; hubby and I listen to NPR”.
And yes, they took the jabs. THREE of ’em.
May God protect the gullible.