without doubt a clear and present danger to the established government.
"Germany spends $142.42 per person on its public media. Norway spends $110.73, Finland $101.29, Denmark $93.16. Leave Scandinavia for Western Europe and you see the U.K. at $81.30, France at $75.89, and Spain at $58.25. Heading a bit east? The Czech Republic’s at $60.08, Estonia $55.70, and Lithuania $32.71.
Only trust the Anglosphere? Try Australia $35.78, New Zealand $26.86, or Canada $26.51. How about Asia? Japan spends $53.15, South Korea $14.93. Africa? Botswana’s at $18.38, Cabo Verde $15.22.
And then there’s the United States — which spends $3.16, per person, per year, on public broadcasting. Ten quarters, four dimes, five nickels, and a penny."
Clearly this is another great money saving budget cut. It is apparent everything is just an excuse to do what they want and facts be damned.
Why is it that every accusation they throw is direct projection? Tell me one thing the Trumpy Bois have accused someone of doing that they haven’t done themselves
Because they know “I don’t do that, YOU do that” sounds like a weak, unconvincing response and that most people are dumb.
It’s this exactly. It muddies the legitimate criticism.
Good news is that the vast majority of NPR’s funding is not from the government.
That said, now is the time to set up reoccurring donations.
Check if your employer will match as well.
says the guy who regularly sends emails to his citizens urgently asking them to send him money for his court cases.
but yeah, NPR is the grift. just insane levels of delusion. and people believe him.
And signed golden gym shoes, cheap guitars, medallions with his face on them, BIBLES…!! Grift?
I saw the post on Whitehouse website in my feed, it’s written so hostile and misleading. They clearly want public broadcasts to be propaganda, though if their own site is an example, their bias is so blatant and their writing so amateur that it won’t fool any regular NPR or PBS follower any time soon.
Too bad there’s already plenty of privately owned propaganda…
Sez the guy hawking golden gym shoes and self-signed junk guitars.
God dammit. Why couldn’t THIS headline have been from the onion???
If that’s not the deepest black hole in space with a bucket of vantablack calling the kettle black, I dunno what is.
In these modern times, whether it news, day to day, or on here, I’m realising many American throw around terms with no idea of their fundamental meaning, just because they heard someone else using them.
It is so fucking confusing. And of course these are the kind of people that don’t like being told that they are making little sense, l failing to understand what a word means and the context in which to use it.
For example, both sides regularly call each other “the libs”. Then when you ask them what that is, you get two completely opposite concepts (obviously) of which both fundamentally oppose liberal thought, bar one or two specific of the many ideas.
It can only start from either a single misunderstanding or deliberate misinformation and then spreads like wildfire via types of media, because apparently many Americans hate taking a few seconds reading up on something prior to adopting it into their everyday outlook. The indoctrination is so easy and has been wildly successful.
So, watch more people adapt “grit” as a word, using it so out of context and so frequently, it may as well he “squanch.”
Pot: “oh, hey!”
Kettle: “didn’t think i’d see you here!”
I think some donor saw all of PBS’s nature documentaries and small community documentaries and decided they needed to be silenced. It wouldn’t. Federal funding of either isn’t large enough to end them but end federal funding and NPR and PBS being party neutral can then switch to being against the anti-environmentalist and imperialism party
