President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting.
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my brother in christ, npr had steve bannon on yesterday morning for an extended interview and pbs had chris rufo today, i guess if nick fuentes isn't given a platform to spew an incel misogynistic screed over the air, there must be censorial "cancel culture" bias in their newsrooms
Executive Orders do not have the force of Federal legislation.
Why @apnews.com do you repeatedly deceive Americans with these misleading headlines?
Cui bono?
On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers, host of children's television series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood testified before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications to defend $20 million in federal funding for the new non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @pbs.org
It's just funny because conservatives constantly cry about left leaning bias from NPR but have no idea how affiliates work or even how much the federal funding is or where it goes. Funny how such tough guy wannabes always play the victim card.
Journalist Code of Ethics requires journalists to report the truth without bias, prejudice or spin for financial gains! Don't bend or bow to threats from a treasonous president and his dysfunctional administration! Don't report propaganda. The truth will set Americans free of this fascist nightmare!
This is AFTER NPR capitulated and agreed to soften their language against Trump.
So, see, it doesn’t matter if you bow to the king. Columbia, NPR, whomever, better to stand for what’s right and go out with your head held high. At least you’d have your pride and integrity. Now you have nothing.
This was always going to happen. He demands personal loyalty from all institutions. You can’t avoid the similarities with Putin, Xi…this is surely not what the Founders had in mind.
#pbs
#trump
The only reason he claims it’s bias reporting is that the reporters with both NPR and PBS seek the truth from factual credible sources rather than discredited sources, misleading sources and false information claims.
It’s been the goal of the Republican Party to do this for years.
On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers, host of children's television series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood testified before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications to defend $20 million in federal funding for the new non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @pbs.org
I just saw an interview where people stated that TikTok opened their eyes so they voted Trump. WTF. This generation of voters believe anything they see on TikTok which is even worse than Faux News. There is no stopping this freight train until it crashes and we are certainly heading that way…
True.
But the narrative is created on FOX News.
The narratives are given legitimacy by FOX News.
The church leaders get their politics from FOX News.
The Republican Party is and is beholden to FOX News.
...so whether everyone watches is moot.
FOX News consolidates the power behind the narrative.
On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers, host of children's television series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood testified before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications to defend $20 million in federal funding for the new non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @pbs.org
On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers, host of children's television series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood testified before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications to defend $20 million in federal funding for the new non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @pbs.org
The 29-page report, “‘I Can’t Do My Job as a Journalist’: The Systematic Undermining of Media Freedom in Hungary”, documents the increased obstacles and constraints independent journalists and media face under the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban. #trumps friend. https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/13/hungary-media-curbs-harm-rule-law
"...has been working to dismantle the U.S. Agency for Global Media, including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty...designed to model independent news gathering globally in societies that restrict the press."
Wild how oblivious to the idea of "soft power" & how afraid of truth.
We just need to step up & make up for some or all of the funding gap with private donations. It was our fault for thinking a government would ever be stable enough to permanently maintain entities for public utility & good.
So then, are we to expect the nation's mainstream media outlets to come together and write a collective editorial slamming that fuck?
Or, will you all sit quietly and collect the "clicks" while our democracy is shredded, burned and its ashes scattered on the wind like you are doing now?
This is what happens when you spend years presenting both sides as being equal when they are very clearly not. Just because I don't like that the sky is blue doesn't make it any less blue. News is news, not entertainment. There is just so much wrong here.
PBS is how most preschoolers in this country learned to count and their letters. Im first generation #SesameStreet, #MrRogers, #Zoom and #ElectricCompany. All wonderful shows that taught children about themselves and the world around them. Ending funding for #PBS is shameful.
It *might* affect some of the smaller stations, but most of them will be fine. He's going to have to cry in his BigMac about the alleged "bias" anyway. 😂🙄 But ooohhh the MAGAts are all pumped up at what a bad ass MF he is for saving them $1.30/year on Big Bird. 🥳😂
Bias = they teach people things that are really true and contradict the bullshit I want them to believe. People might get smart and learn I really am the narcissistic, egotistical, sociopathic asshat the Demoncrats have always said I am. It's all so UNFAIR. 😭😭😭🙄
It is unreal. My abusive ex was a malignant narcissist and was similar in SO MANY WAYS. He triggers me so much. But DT is the most intense modern case I think I have ever witnessed. Completely insane.
Saying he's insane let's him off the hook. He and his cronies cultivated themselves to be the utter shits they are. They deserve to be punished accordingly and not wiggle out from under their crimes as though they couldn't help themselves because of insanity.
Slashing funding for PBS and NPR is wrong. These networks provide unbiased news reporting that doesn't favor any political side. The government will not save a significant amount of funds by cutting PBS & NPR and will particularly hurt rural populations who are in 'news deserts'.
Just doubled my monthly donation. This will probably get overturned but my donation will stay regardless. Reporting actual facts is more important than ever!
It's just Trump's projection game, every accusation is a confession. The media & press have been by his side from The Apprentice, through all of his campaigns, and both his presidencies!
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Why @apnews.com do you repeatedly deceive Americans with these misleading headlines?
Cui bono?
https://youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA
https://bsky.app/profile/lucille-fix.bsky.social/post/3lo3nwjijuc2o
This seems a useful explanation.
So, see, it doesn’t matter if you bow to the king. Columbia, NPR, whomever, better to stand for what’s right and go out with your head held high. At least you’d have your pride and integrity. Now you have nothing.
https://bsky.app/profile/apnews.com/post/3lo5v57mhtx2f
@pbs.org libraries?
Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air. https://help.pbs.org/support/solutions/articles/12000056932-getting-started-with-pbs-passport
#pbs
#trump
Stephen Miller AKA Joseph Goebbels knows the steps ...
It’s been the goal of the Republican Party to do this for years.
https://youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA
Trouble is, he’s in a position and has the other 2 branches backing in almost every way.
The rest will fall if we don't focus. The worst is yet to come.
Time to act is 10 years ago - but NOW is all we have.
But the narrative is created on FOX News.
The narratives are given legitimacy by FOX News.
The church leaders get their politics from FOX News.
The Republican Party is and is beholden to FOX News.
...so whether everyone watches is moot.
FOX News consolidates the power behind the narrative.
https://youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA
https://youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA
Wild how oblivious to the idea of "soft power" & how afraid of truth.
First. Ammendment.
Free. Press.
Why are we doing this?
@pbs.org libraries?
Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.: https://help.pbs.org/support/solutions/articles/12000056932-getting-started-with-pbs-passport
Commentators say he promised this then that then this again essentially giving him free publicity
Then trump blames Biden where again they recite this nonsense
He now has excuses which media recites
Suggest @rbreich.bsky.social YouTube video
https://youtu.be/qtaIulmOS18?si=0qMsoEFUGJDiroez
Or, will you all sit quietly and collect the "clicks" while our democracy is shredded, burned and its ashes scattered on the wind like you are doing now?
The Grifting Old Party needs to support its oligarch leaders, the billionaires who own WaPo, LA Times, Fox, etc.
Grand Old Pedophiles?
I can never remember what it stands for.
Full disclosure: I’m just a dumb Canadian asking for a few million American friends.
#FreedomOfThePress
#FirstAmendment
#Resist
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Kamala unprepared & unavailable
Joe: old & senile
Hillary: but her emails
Donald: masculine, strong, immune, media savvy, he didn't mean what he said, etc…