Posted on 11/22/2016 5:19:45 PM PST by markomalley
With President-elect Trump promising to pay for his infrastructure and defense spending by defunding non-essential federal spending, one of the first programs on the block could be the almost $500 million spent on public broadcasting.
Despite repeated efforts to kill federal funding of public broadcasting since Republicans won the House in 2010 and Presidential-nominee Mitt Romney made it a campaign promise in 2012, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education are spending $470.7 million in U.S. taxpayer cash to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) this year, which provides 15 percent of PBS television and 10 percent of NPR radio broadcasting funding.
Although their charter requires strict non-partisan programing, the public broadcasters are accused of leaning left. An NPR article described the 2016 election results as “nostalgia for a whiter America.”
After Joel Pollak, who serves as Breitbart’s Senior Editor-at-Large and In-house Counsel, defended its Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon from false and defamatory claims of antisemitism and “white nationalism” in a Nov. 16 interview, NPR’s ombudsman/public editor Elizabeth Jensen recommended that the taxpayer-funded radio news service bar future live interviews of conservatives, who may be “normalizing hate speech.” Instead, guests with presumably controversial views should be pre-taped, she said, so that their opinions might be “contextualized.” (NPR clarified on Monday evening that it will continue to air live interviews with conservatives.)
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Long past time.
Please do!
Bump to this idea.
Wow. This election was so important, in so many ways.
Bump!
Make it 100%. Let Sesame Street pay for pbs.
BS, it’s a ton more than 500 million.
Gut them like fish...
Oh No Big Bird
It’s now or never.
We spent 25 years overseas and listened to Voice of America quite often. What a waste of money that has become. Cut the funding off.
Oh Hell yes. It's time to take a garrotte to a lot of non Federalism Federal programs.
Toss the Departments of Energy, Commerce and Education. They don't do anything of any worth or value either.
Eliminate it and National Public Radio.
Corporate welfare for the artsy-fartsy types.
The folks who will never vote for the GOP.
If Trump does that, he would have the gratitude of the country.
Defund the NEA and NEH as well.
Annually?
Great start.
We all know they cannot earn their keep.
Trump has four years to defund the left.
If he does - easy reelection!
Both PBS and NPR are radical liberal radio/TV - totally biased pro-liberal. But yet they have the audacity to say they’re unbiased - neutral.
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