Working on a piece that defends funding for NPR and PBS. Whatever their problems, we cannot let Fox News become our default "public sphere." There needs to be alternatives, including imperfect yet aspirational ones.
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I’ve been trying watch MSNBC without signing up to a whole $$$ streaming package. Its impossible, even with Peacock. Fox News is, of course, fucking everywhere. No wonder we’re losing in the field public opinion.
Most public media is just people from their own communities making local news. And in most cases, it’s the last local news source in rural areas. It just depends how you feel about people who don’t live in cities, and if they deserve equal rights to information.
Some of my favorites informational shows have been from local public broadcasting. If universal healthcare isn't feasible, at *least* we should guarantee freedom of *accurate* information
Locally produced news is valuable generally and becomes essential during disasters such as Hurricane Helene and the LA fires. As noted above, emergency broadcast capacity alone is a key rationale for supporting local and public media.
Your awesome for what you are doing. I know a lot of people who watch NPR and PBS that aren't just boomers. Just misinformed or ignorant people who are aggressively mean trying to tear down a kind act that you are doing. Thank you and for not lowering your morals and staying king in your response
In addition they are not required to repeat the lies that are inherent to the Republican propaganda in order to display some kind of fake both sides BS. We've had enough of that.
Also please mention that cable subscribers are forced to finance FOX as it is mandatory basic cable at a significant premium, in most areas. What is worse is that it is broadcast 24/7 in every Government installation common area.
Why don’t you mention how FOX effectively used the Sesame Street method of constant repetition, and visual reinforcement that worked so well teaching 4 year olds the alphabet , to compel Americans to take up arms against each other
Fox propaganda. Don't call it "News," they called themselves IN COURT an entertainment enterprise. We need to call them what they are, propaganda eating the right's brains.
NPR has pissed me off for years with pandering and bothsiderism and having been forced to basically not have *reporters* but just ask opinions, ... and the Republicans keep 'defunding' them so much that there isn't much left to justify their control over it. Maybe NPR should tell em to shove it.
imho (worked at npr for 15 yrs and live pub media), more important is the funding for stations. that's vital. the networks can survive but talk to colorado public radio and see what they they think. esp member stations outside the top ten. please speak to the stations!
FNC is an embarrassing insult to peoples intelligence as are the people behind such opinionated bs. PBS/NPR are sourses of culture, history, and trusted investigative journalism. Losing public broadcasting would mean we've lost as a civilization.
Fox in 2020 recklessly minimized the pandemic as it killed so many Americans. They convinced Trump to take their side against govt. public health experts. Newsmax, OAN, & Fox are Republican propaganda TV. I'll take NPR & PBS over these any day every day.
Yes
We don’t get to this level of societal division and elected incompetence without the Fox Corporation abusing the trust of its paying audience via impersonating journalism
I’m here to change that
Looking for cofounders to join me on a path forward
Fox News will never be the default for news. It will always be entertainment/propaganda, pandering to fear mongering and wealthy elites. There are plenty of sources of news, though, sadly, a very large number are overseas.
It would be worth checking with every state emergency management agency and ask them what their designated emergency communications network is. Nobody is connecting the dots with talk of eliminating public waves. Also: Rep Jared Moscowitz was FL’s head before going to Congress.
Most airtight argument for preserving PBS/NPR: it is the Emergency Broadcast Systm in most rural and other states. In ME, Paul LePage cld not end it after I told the people at Maine Public the State EMA relies on this network for essential public comms. NPR/PBS execs don’t even know this fact.
Wild when you think about it: so I'm supposed to believe USAID and Social Security and the Centers for Disease Control and the Department of Education can all get abolished...
But Fox News has a God-given right to exist and make money!!!
It is not just Fox news. Network news in general, has allowed their fear to omit the "news" that's most important to all of us. By omitting anything that makes the WH occupier look bad, they have been rendered useless to "the people". Independent news sources need our support, AND we need theirs.
NPR and PBS are funded by taxdollors correct? the taxdollors don't have a stamp on them that say "R" or "D", so why are these stations 100% D leaning? I don't want MY $$ funding that...
If they were unbiased it would be fine, they're not.
Fox can be bc they are privately owned, same with ABC NBC.
Doesn't matter, money is fungible and that's something the left knows all too well. If they want it, have the left fund it or put them out on the open market like ABC NBC and Fox. They have become a sounding board for only one side not for the entire country like was intended.
Here in Canada, Mark Carney is promising to boost funding to CBC. Pierre Poilievre is on record as wanting to defund it. He currently doesn't want to take questions from the CBC to avoid the hard questions.
For all the right says that NPR is biased, does fox embrace the other side? After T was first elected, and through much of his 1st term we frequently heard from the American Greatness guy on NPR. Plus, Jonah Goldberg and probably others.
Right? I don't think I've ever heard a domestic interviewer really push back on anyone for anything. It's pitiful. Everything is just a promo like professional wrestling.
Journalism in America forgot about speaking truth to power a long time ago, it seems.
We need to get billionaires out of our fourth estate, the economics of the attention economy on our news is toxic to civil discourse. #3E #endoligarchy
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that cool carney fellow in canada just pledged 150 mil for the same over there
But, sorry, NPR News is utterly compromised. They failed in their most basic duty.
Like the NYT and WaPo, anyone still working there at this point is a craven collaborator.
It can be replaced with something better. Burn it down.
All the young voters are listening to Tim Pool, Styxhexenhammer666, Ben Shapiro, and you're basically losing. Loser.
I just voted for Trump for the same reason I vote in every election; to keep my guns.
Also, Fox isn’t the default when ABC, CNBC, CNN, Washington Post, et al still exist.
We don’t get to this level of societal division and elected incompetence without the Fox Corporation abusing the trust of its paying audience via impersonating journalism
I’m here to change that
Looking for cofounders to join me on a path forward
Feel free to reach out and start a dialogue
But Fox News has a God-given right to exist and make money!!!
If they were unbiased it would be fine, they're not.
Fox can be bc they are privately owned, same with ABC NBC.
So then let's see how long they last WITHOUT the fed funds.
Lipdoctor.
Those BBC interviewers know their stuff and they go right for the jugular if somebody misspeaks. It's refreshing.
Journalism in America forgot about speaking truth to power a long time ago, it seems.