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Trump signs executive order defunding PBS, NPR


               
2025 May 2, 1:59am   435 views  30 comments

by DemoralizerOfPanicans   follow (9)  

President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Thursday instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end taxpayer funding for PBS and NPR, the nation's two largest public broadcasters that long have been regarded as biased by conservatives.

The White House announced the executive order in a post on social media site X, just weeks after Congress confronted executives of both broadcasters with evidence of political imbalance and liberal leanings in their coverage.

Trump "just signed an executive order ENDING the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and PBS — which receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news,'" the White House wrote.

The president's order stated that NPR and PBS no longer served a meaningful purpose warranting taxpayer funding because there are so many private media choices in the digital era.

"Today the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options. Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence," the order stated.

The order instructs CPB’s governing board to terminate direct funding for NPR and PBS to the “maximum extent allowed by law" and take steps to “minimize or eliminate” indirect funding to the outlets.
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trump-signs-order-ending-taxpayer-funding-npr-and-pbs

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1   WookieMan   2025 May 2, 6:12am  

Not sure why the government would pay for media anyway. Everyone is biased anyway you get the money. That includes business or anything else in life. The government shouldn't be paying any media at all. Let Soros or the Koch guys pay for it. I don't want my federal taxes going to any media.
2   GreaterNYCDude   2025 May 2, 6:29am  

I like my local PBS. They tend to show more interesting content than 90% of the network channels. I'm old school and not much into streaming. Not that I watch TV much anyway.

I also think that some of the educational content for kids (Sesame Street for example) is (Or at least was) better than the other stuffs that's out there (Peppa Pig has been banned in my house and I can't stand Paw Patrol)

I know for me some of the shows on PBS were foundational to my upbringing (Mr. Rodgers, The Electric Company, SquareOne, etc.)

Yes they tend to lean left but you know what your getting. Despite being generally conservative, I think there is a place for a government subsidized TV network. But that's just me.

NPR jumped the shark years ago and is straight propaganda. All they do is kvetch about how bad of a job the current administration is doing and almost none of the programming (which can be quite random) holds my interest.
3   clambo   2025 May 2, 6:30am  

I miss the old days when PBS had Juila Child cooking. I can't recall other shows.
4   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2025 May 2, 6:52am  

NPR is gross. The local hosts actually bantered on about how terrible Trump is in that miserable half whisper voice that the Westside elites in Los Angeles seem to love. No way in hell taxpayers should be paying that.

Sesame Street is an icon and should be profitable on its own. Probably already is. They have an absurdly cool line of action figures, another line of retro figures, and probably could kill on television/cable licensing.


5   Patrick   2025 May 2, 7:41am  

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says


NPR is gross. The local hosts actually bantered on about how terrible Trump is in that miserable half whisper voice that the Westside elites in Los Angeles seem to love. No way in hell taxpayers should be paying that.


Exactly. I can't stand to hear NPR for even a minute anymore. It's just continuous propaganda. They don't even pretend to be neutral.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703662804576189121159502658


An NPR executive who was caught on video making disparaging remarks about the Republican Party and the Tea Party movement to two men posing as members of an Islamic civic group resigned Tuesday night. The resignation of Ron Schiller, head of NPR's fund-raising arm and senior vice president of development, capped a day of fast-moving events as the nonprofit news organization tried to distance itself from Mr. Schiller after the video surfaced Tuesday morning.
6   Ceffer   2025 May 2, 7:51am  

The vomit rocket hyperreality and perversion went of the charts for the virtue signaling PBS types. The Potemkin progressive world they are trying to present does not exist outside of a Kommie media set. It's a subscription to insanity.

All of the medias portray lavish monied lifestyles while the people and fake minorities populating the plastic fantastic are prancing idiots. They subsidize stupidity as if it is success.
7   Patrick   2025 May 2, 9:59am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/gifts-and-surprises-friday-may-2


Finally —just to make sure— Trump’s order directed HHS to investigate NPR and PBS for discriminatory hiring practices. What kind of discriminatory hiring practices? Oh, I don’t know. You tell me. Here’s NPR’s top management:





Smash the matriarchy!
8   HANrongli   2025 May 2, 12:22pm  

We must not underestimate the CCP's underworld forces, the internal ghosts lurking in the United States, the "internal and external cooperation", the betrayal of the country for glory, and the sabotage of unrestricted warfare!

不可低估中共黑恶势力、潜伏在美国内部的内鬼“里应外合”、卖国求荣、超限战破坏犯罪行为！
9   Eric Holder   2025 May 2, 2:14pm  

So it's what, 10-15% of their total funding? Hardly a death blow.
10   WookieMan   2025 May 2, 3:32pm  

Eric Holder says

So it's what, 10-15% of their total funding? Hardly a death blow.

It's not about the figurehead people. It's about the behind the scenes people. Those will be first cut as they're younger. Have fun producing a show with no one or one person. Audio. Video.

Unless you're a lucky business, 15-25% is great margins. 15% cut can make revenue go to $0. Won't cut the deficits by a magnificent amount, but it's better than not cutting for networks no one really watches.
11   Misc   2025 May 3, 12:54pm  

Eric Holder says

So it's what, 10-15% of their total funding? Hardly a death blow.


Good then make them give back the last 15 years or so government funding that they were using to blatantly push liberal crap.
12   RWSGFY   2025 May 3, 10:17pm  

Misc says

Eric Holder says


So it's what, 10-15% of their total funding? Hardly a death blow.


Good then make them give back the last 15 years or so government funding that they were using to blatantly push liberal crap.


Can't be legally done.
13   PeopleUnited   2025 May 3, 10:24pm  

Patrick says

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/gifts-and-surprises-friday-may-2



Finally —just to make sure— Trump’s order directed HHS to investigate NPR and PBS for discriminatory hiring practices. What kind of discriminatory hiring practices? Oh, I don’t know. You tell me. Here’s NPR’s top management:





Smash the matriarchy!

I expected there would be at least one or two blue haired harpies at the top.
14   Ceffer   2025 May 3, 10:25pm  

" foundation grants and corporate sponsorships." @ 65% could just be code for Mockingbird NGO garbage as usual and/or as HANrongli points out, CCP (which is quite invasive in California).

Losing 35 percent from CPB would not be trivial, and Mockingbird is being stanched as well with Trump closing off the laundering venues. Could wind up being quite a bit, but less propaganda is better propaganda.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/support/frequently-asked-questions-about-support
15   Misc   2025 May 3, 10:37pm  

RWSGFY says

Can't be legally done.


Sure it can. Through the courts. Problem is they declare bankruptcy. Which they are headed for no matter what.
16   DemoralizerOfPanicans   2025 May 3, 11:30pm  

The real question is why this wasn't done in 2005 when the GOP had a 30 seat majority and a Republican president.
17   WookieMan   2025 May 4, 12:38am  

AmericanKulak says

The real question is why this wasn't done in 2005 when the GOP had a 30 seat majority and a Republican president.

Bush either didn't care or even know what PBS and NPR even were likely. He might of had a cunning side to him, but he seemed dumb or controlled. If you brought up those two publication/networks he probably would just say "what is that?" and just start painting some shitty painting an 8th grader could make. Only he can sell it for $100k to Bush fan boomers.
18   DemoralizerOfPanicans   2025 May 4, 12:43am  

All those knocking
At my door
I got fired by a blue haired whore
- Tales from Lake New Mogadishu
19   PeopleUnited   2025 May 4, 7:14am  

AmericanKulak says

The real question is why this wasn't done in 2005 when the GOP had a 30 seat majority and a Republican president.

Bush is skull and bones new world order globalist. A pure blood globalist who comes across as a regular baseball and horseback kind of guy.
20   SharkyP   2025 May 4, 12:53pm  

I understood it is only 1% of their funding.
21   Blue   2025 May 4, 10:42pm  

SharkyP says


I understood it is only 1% of their funding.

If that was ever true, they would have stopped taking funds from gov.
It should be “1%” of some very big fake number. Enough to run most of the programs.
22   Eric Holder   2025 May 5, 11:25am  

Misc says

Sure it can. Through the courts.


I don't see it. The funding was authorized by the Congress.
24   Patrick   2025 Jun 1, 11:25am  

https://x.com/SeattleIndepen1/status/1926092865635066182


I used to love NPR. Yeah, it definitely leaned left. But Bob Edward's was the perfect start to the day. Just the headlines of the most important stuff without tabloid stories. I also love jazz, and most NPR stations were jazz.

Now, whenever I turn it on, it's like a caricature from the Onion.

"With the Opiod epidemic devastating white communities, some fear that the plight of gender queer and non binary people of color is being marginalized. NPR's Sara Goldstein spent a weekend with black wheelchair bound women bowhunters from Cleveland to find out more."

Cue sound effect of a bow being drawn and an arrow flying through the air, hitting the target with a thud, and several black women responding with claps and "yeah!"
25   stereotomy   2025 Jun 1, 6:40pm  

I remember when Reagan wanted to cut PBS, and Fred Rogers testified before Congress. It brought tears to my eyes.

Sadly, that PBS and NPR are no more. Let them die, because they are now antithetical to the purpose of their original incorporation. I think Fred Rogers (RIP) would agree.
26   Ceffer   2025 Jun 1, 6:56pm  

Old fashioned liberal in the sense of some quasi enlightened tea and sympathy, not KommieKunt subversion, struggle sessions, anti human inflicted policies, media psyops and programmed relentless lies, weaponization of psychotic minorities and marginalized whackos, demoralization campaigns, color revolutions, incitation of civil war, recruitment to banners of perversion, depravity and Satanism, virtue signaling for money laundering, sanctification of pedophilia, mass corruption of politics and ethics, declaring war on the Republic with masses of unvetted immigrants, massive election fraud to stay in power etc. etc.
28   DemoralizerOfPanicans   2025 Jun 1, 8:24pm  

Patrick says

I used to love NPR. Yeah, it definitely leaned left. But Bob Edward's was the perfect start to the day. Just the headlines of the most important stuff without tabloid stories. I also love jazz, and most NPR stations were jazz.

It went from Garrison Keilor and Irish Dance Festivals to "Why Transgenders Love Dinosaurs" very fast.

Again, my Millennial College Educated women hypothesis. The timing (late 2000s-early 2010s) for the rapid shift matches perfectly.
30   RWSGFY   2025 Jun 9, 5:12pm  

They are still broadcasting. Somehow.

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