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Musk Sets His Sights On Defunding NPR
« on: February 05, 2025, 09:13:37 am »
Musk Sets His Sights On Defunding NPR › American Greatness
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Efficiency Czar Elon Musk signaled Tuesday that he has chosen the next government-funded candidate for the chopping block: National Public Radio.

“Defund NPR. It should survive on its own,” the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) boss posted on X, Tuesday morning. NPR is a left-wing nonprofit media organization that was established by an act of Congress in 1970 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

President Trump himself questioned why American taxpayers were still paying “this big-government, Democrat Party propaganda operation” during his first term.

NPR and The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, were set to receive $525 million in public funding in 2024, although an updated figure was not disclosed at the end of the year, according to the Wrap.

    The year prior, in 2023, $32 million of NPR’s $318 million in revenue came from the CPB. Overall, NPR syndicates its programming to more than 1,000 public radio stations. While the bulk of NPR’s funding does not come from federal funds, the outlet has said it is a critical component to staying on the airwaves.

“Federal funding is essential to public radio’s service to the American public and its continuation is critical for both stations and program producers, including NPR,” the outlet says on its website.

Musk has set an ambitious goal of cutting $2 trillion in spending from the $6.8 trillion federal budget.

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Re: Musk Sets His Sights On Defunding NPR
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2025, 09:26:27 am »
There never has been any justification for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR or PBS. Sink or swim on your own. Their programming is more propaganda than education, anyway.
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Re: Musk Sets His Sights On Defunding NPR
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2025, 09:32:21 am »
This lefty boondoggle should have been off the grift decades ago. About damned time.
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Re: Musk Sets His Sights On Defunding NPR
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2025, 09:33:37 am »
Quote from: catfish1957 on February 05, 2025, 09:32:21 am
This lefty boondoggle should have been off the grift decades ago. About damned time.

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Re: Musk Sets His Sights On Defunding NPR
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2025, 09:41:31 am »
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Re: Musk Sets His Sights On Defunding NPR
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2025, 10:10:50 am »
Hit the bricks, Elmo.
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Re: Musk Sets His Sights On Defunding NPR
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2025, 06:09:47 pm »
NPR and NET, too.

And while you're at it, find out how much fed money has been slipped towards the SPLC, also.

Cut it off. As soon as possible.
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Re: Musk Sets His Sights On Defunding NPR
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2025, 07:41:01 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on February 05, 2025, 09:26:27 am
There never has been any justification for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR or PBS. Sink or swim on your own. Their programming is more propaganda than education, anyway.
The idea behind it was that back in the 60s when there were only three channels and limited spectrum, a public broadcaster could provide the content that commercial media was abandoning but people generally agreed it was good to have that content on TV. Now, with the Internet making information pretty much fully abundant, the idea of a CPB is nearly obsolete.

I mean, look at the content NPR is putting out right now. How much of it is the kind of unique interest programming that it was designed to be an outlet for? Jazz radio, which used to be an NPR staple and which I used to listen to going to bed, is almost extinct. Now it's mostly talk shows and magazines that are sponsored by corporations, like any other commercial network. There's no real argument for its continued existence. It doesn't provide neutrality any more than the badly biased commercial networks and the content isn't any better than commercial nets.

PBS still does a decent job producing programming, but NPR lost the plot many, many years ago. Of course, PBS is and always has been built around the local communities from the ground up, not a top-down operation like NPR.
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Re: Musk Sets His Sights On Defunding NPR
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2025, 07:46:26 pm »
The nearest public TV must be hamster powered, because we no longer get the signal. Oh well. No more documentaries about the struggles of gay Muslim Incans.
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Re: Musk Sets His Sights On Defunding NPR
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2025, 09:16:19 pm »
Good. They can either survive on their donations, or they can close down shop. I don't really care which, so long as taxpayer dollars are no longer involved.
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Re: Musk Sets His Sights On Defunding NPR
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2025, 06:56:22 am »
Quote from: Fishrrman on February 05, 2025, 06:09:47 pm
NPR and NET, too.

And while you're at it, find out how much fed money has been slipped towards the SPLC, also.

Cut it off. As soon as possible.
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Re: Musk Sets His Sights On Defunding NPR
« Reply #11 on: February 11, 2025, 10:50:16 am »
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