public media funding is always under threat — but now Elon Musk is targeting NPR and PBS for budget cuts. @benmullin.bsky.social and I found out how stations are preparing: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/b... - ThreadSky

kateconger.com • 62 days ago

public media funding is always under threat — but now Elon Musk is targeting NPR and PBS for budget cuts. @benmullin.bsky.social and I found out how stations are preparing: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/business/media/npr-pbs-funding-trump-musk.html

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jkdanthonyian10.bsky.social•62 days ago

I'm curious if his Department of Grift Exemplified will be taking a look at all the fat subsidies the gov't provides to Tesla and SpaceX.

redbirdspn.bsky.social•62 days ago

It would be interesting to see how much funding he gets and compare that to the money NPR and PBS get.

protector5763.bsky.social•62 days ago

No.
Those are sacred. 😡

deshaunweinstein.bsky.social•62 days ago

He wants every municipality to buy his trucks

dianamc.bsky.social•52 days ago

I’ll increase my donations.

davidcyrus.bsky.social•61 days ago

And you know they give zero hoots about NPR and PBS because a week ago when #PresidentMusk blew up the bipartisan congressional spending bill, the Republican party created replacement removed 190 million dollars for pediatric cancer research. I kid thee not!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54oxc3FEq4Y

davidcyrus.bsky.social•61 days ago

Ehhh, what does he care though? He's a BILLIONAIRE! He doesn't care about kids with cancer or about the rest of us mere mortals... He's RICH, biotch! Worse comes to worst, he'll just jump on one of his rockets and fly off to "Occupy Mars". #BillionairesCannotGovern

#Elonald
#EndOligarchy

skeptocapital.com•62 days ago

Is there any semblance of culture that tech leaders won’t attempt to destroy in order to profit handsomely?

itsgoodtobehome.bsky.social•62 days ago

If they let anyone else have anything nice they aren't winning, and if narcissists are not winning bigly they are losing.

So no. They get all the good stuff and you don't. Even if it just means leaving stuff alone or not wrecking it.

countrymarxist.bsky.social•62 days ago

They quite literally get off on “disruption”

flyflicker.bsky.social•62 days ago

Right after you take control of the government and install loyalists in all key positions, the next step is to take control of the media so that the public gets only one consistent message that extols the virtues of your new leaders. Looks like things are going according to plan ...

frankgarrett.bsky.social•61 days ago

While public broadcasting is under threat, the flat out pro Trump propaganda supported by Voice of America never has it's funding targeted. Now it's going to be led by Kari Lake, funneling hundreds of millions into Trump branding.

justontheplanet.bsky.social•62 days ago

Only trumpublicans could hate Big Bird

joshjoonicorn.bsky.social•61 days ago

Elmo really failed to grow up learning empathy and wants to make sure no other kids do either

jaynegallaghe20.bsky.social•62 days ago

You mention the most vulnerable being the smaller and rural parts of the US. Iirc those types of places — ones that had news deserts, played a critical role in the direction of the most recent presidential election?

dlowther.bsky.social•62 days ago

Good reporting. Thanks.

As an aside, the cost to float PBS and NPR is immaterial as compared to the overall federal budget. This is about pushing right-wing ideology, nothing more.

kimoco.bsky.social•62 days ago

As I understand they get little from the federal government and I am sure if they asked us listeners/viewers to help out a bit more many who can would

colematt.bsky.social•61 days ago

That’s not the point though. It’s the sleight of hand: they’ll point to the few hundred millions they cut, then quietly add billions of subsidies and tax cuts to their own interests. They’re hoping enough Americans can’t do the math.

kimoco.bsky.social•61 days ago

Well, most can't do the math.

colematt.bsky.social•61 days ago

I’m afraid you’re correct

frankeewilliams.bsky.social•61 days ago

Sesame Street is on HBO

unlookedangles.bsky.social•61 days ago

That can’t be true. He would never. You’re an NYT reporter… sorry, but I can’t trust you. 🙃

mrwu.bsky.social•61 days ago

FUCK NY TIMES

commentious.bsky.social•61 days ago

Hasn't anyone told him that they already did that?
Not enough?
Does he want them kissing Dear Leader's ass online?

djsoubise.bsky.social•62 days ago

no one voted for Elon Musk

jtwryly.bsky.social•61 days ago

Again, again and again we see the tendency of rich and powerful men to succumb to the kind of sadism that seems to afflict that class of jaded individuals. They can't resist the chance to prick somebody's bubble.

lauragale.bsky.social•61 days ago

Page 247 of Project 2025 calls for the defunding of the “leftist” Corporation for Public Broadcasting. They are following the promised playbook.

wanderingvoron.bsky.social•62 days ago

No more crumbs for the peasants say the current economic royalists

saddleman.bsky.social•62 days ago

Just endless pressure on public need and gates wide open on the needs of the rich, That's your GOP

novemberday.bsky.social•61 days ago

Anything that leads to people learning, becoming literate, and independent thinking is a threat to this agenda. Not a surprise to anyone.

cfthomas1951.bsky.social•61 days ago

@elonmusk needs to play in HIS OWN playground & quit fucking with the real world!

differance.bsky.social•62 days ago

okay but what has NPR done to merit protection? it's been an unmitigated disaster for a couple of decades now. and not because it lacks funding. and it has been disturbingly solicitous toward Trump/MAGA

melanie-ensign.bsky.social•62 days ago

It’s not giving “free-speech advocate” vibes.

kateconger.com•62 days ago

wait but I was told…

melanie-ensign.bsky.social•62 days ago

He would never lie, Kate. That’s for wimps. 😎

zigsmum.bsky.social•61 days ago

Saw this coming

carlhoffman.bsky.social•61 days ago

Imagine what a boost Musk could give both w a donation if he had any intellectual depth and concept of history.

besonst.bsky.social•61 days ago

Is my math correct? Even if the CPB were completely eliminated, it would only reduce the federal spending 0.00008% of the federal budget? Seems like we could save more just eliminating DOGE, right?

egoode.bsky.social•61 days ago

One cannot enslave an educated and informed populace.

This is why their first target is education and information.

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