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PBS/NPR In Panic: Trump Administration To Defund/Privatize
Gateway Pundit ^ | January 24,2017 | Lucian Wintrich

Posted on 01/24/2017 5:49:11 PM PST by Hojczyk

Currently, a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money is given to National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) each year. Trump plans to do away with that. The Hill has reported:

“The Trump Administration needs to reform and cut spending dramatically, and targeting waste like the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be a good first step in showing that the Trump Administration is serious about radically reforming the federal budget,” said Brian Darling, a former aide to Paul and a former staffer at the Heritage Foundation.

The Regan Administration attempted something similar in the 1980s, but was ultimately convinced against it. One of the cases made was that the government owes the American people access to news/information. Back then, there was no internet, only a few dozen televisions/news radio stations. They saw it as an actual public service (perhaps, rightly so). Today, however, broadcast television and FM radio is in a major decline with fewer and fewer viewers every year. After all, who feels like waiting for the 6 o’clock news when you can just hop on the internet and get real-time news and current events?

On the Bernie Sanders campaign trail, he loved claiming that Norway was better than America. Well, Norway is planning to eliminate FM radio altogether. FM radio and satellite television are dying media forms that have been kept alive and propped up by government spending and the bureaucracy, so isn’t it good that we’re pulling federal funding? If are profitable and do in fact have a strong audience, they wouldn’t need to be subsidized with taxpayer money. Well, Hollywood doesn’t think so:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: defund; defundnpr; first100days; fundingtheleft; npr; pbs; trump; trump45; trumpwinsagain
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To: Hojczyk

***SWOOOOOOOON***


101 posted on 01/24/2017 7:37:00 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: txhurl

“gay p0rn music”

What the hell is...know what? I don’t want to know.

Did you use that zero to prevent some bot from triggering on your post?


102 posted on 01/24/2017 7:41:23 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: raygunfan

lol

And Ken Burns!!!

hehehe


103 posted on 01/24/2017 7:42:22 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: All
TRUMP READ THE BOOK
104 posted on 01/24/2017 7:42:57 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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To: All

Gee, I wonder what the #NeverTrumpers think now?

Its Christmas every day in The Age of Trump!!!


105 posted on 01/24/2017 7:45:36 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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To: All

Trump is a one-man freaking cyclone - best thing is, he ENERGIZES all those around him.

Trump is like the “Tasmanian Devil” from the Warner Brothers cartoons - the Dems don’t know which direction he’s coming from next!!


106 posted on 01/24/2017 7:47:20 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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To: bigbob

I thought it was “FOR THE CHILDREN”. (barf)


107 posted on 01/24/2017 7:50:38 PM PST by Senormechanico
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To: Hojczyk

The crap networks only promoted socialist, Marxist agenda! Time to pull the plug!!


108 posted on 01/24/2017 7:51:19 PM PST by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: virgil

I like British programming too. But PBS stopped being the main source about ten or fifteen years ago. BBC America, Netflix, Amazon Video, YouTube, Hulu, the list of alternatives that don’t run distracting fund drives offering spiffy coffee mugs and teapot cozy’s every couple weeks, or give talk time to closet Communists like Bill Moyer, is practically endless. Both they and NPR can try and make it without my tax dollars, thank you very much.


109 posted on 01/24/2017 7:56:40 PM PST by katana
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To: crusty old prospector

Victoria is good. I’ve been watching that.


110 posted on 01/24/2017 7:57:34 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: angry elephant

Yes, or the Gates family.


111 posted on 01/24/2017 7:57:34 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: AmericanMermaid

Have you ever noticed how the voices of NPR reporters always sound elitist?

And they have a few guys with British accents to make the commentary more intelleccccccccctual.

You’ve got to hand it to them: they have developed their own mystique.

But sounding professional is fine. The problem is they are so violently slanted toward the left.

Let them keep the name NPR and PBS. And I look forward to hearing some new entrepreneurial stations pop up to fill in any programming NPR does.


112 posted on 01/24/2017 7:57:59 PM PST by poconopundit (Trust thyself, every heart vibrates to that iron string. Emerson)
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To: virgil

The good stuff on Masterpiece can be viewed online or purchased on dvd. No need for PBS!


113 posted on 01/24/2017 7:59:42 PM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: Mariner

Quite true. Maybe SiriusXM.


114 posted on 01/24/2017 7:59:49 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Hojczyk

We are lucky in Denver to have an NPR news station AND A SEPARATE CPR classical music station. I do not give to the classics music station because they get my tax dollars. If they go away I will donate because it is now my choice and the classical music station is just that and I enjoy listening to it.


115 posted on 01/24/2017 8:07:07 PM PST by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: Mariner

I’m sure Sirius/XM has a classical station.


116 posted on 01/24/2017 8:16:12 PM PST by huckfillary
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To: huckfillary; crusty old prospector

Sirius/XM

Thank you for bringing that to my attention.

A week without opera and I start getting jittery. 2 weeks and I’m a mess.


117 posted on 01/24/2017 8:21:57 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Hojczyk

Just tell them their funding was reallocated to the Fakeistinians by 0 they’ll be glad


118 posted on 01/24/2017 8:25:05 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Hojczyk

BUT how will all the smart people get tote bags?


119 posted on 01/24/2017 8:25:35 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: Mariner

Who is broadcast classical music and opera?

Nobody except public radio.

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Sweeping generalities. wrong <======

http://theclassicalstation.org/

WCPE GreatClassicalMusic 89.7FM where I am

Check it out online. All info plus daily schedules.

Totally listener supported. They do fundraisers like twice a year. Very nice people. Volunteers.

Ask a station near you to carry it.

I record sunday 7:30am to 11am GreatSacredMusic.


Their homepage is featuring this right now:

Celebrate Mozart’s birthday a day early this week on the WCPE Opera House with a classic recording of Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). A comic opera composed in 1786 with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, it’s based on Pierre Beaumarchais’ 1784 play Le Mariage de Figaro. This play is the second installment in his Figaro Trilogy, preceded by Le Barbier de Séville (The Barber of Seville) and followed by La Mère coupable (The Guilty Mother). Thanks to the great popularity of Barbier, Mariage opened to enormous success; it reportedly grossed 100,000 francs in the first twenty showings and the theater was so packed that three people were crushed to death by the opening-night crowd. Mozart’s Nozze — which premiered on May 1, 1786 at Vienna’s Burgtheater — was the first of three collaborations with Da Ponte; the others were Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte..

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120 posted on 01/24/2017 8:27:42 PM PST by PraiseTheLord
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