More than 50 years after NPR and PBS first hit the airwaves, the two public broadcasters with hundreds of member stations face millions in budget cuts after Republican senators voted to claw back previously appropriated funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds public media like NPR and PBS.
The House cleared the measure after midnight Friday, sending it to President Donald Trump for his signature.
Republicans have framed the spending cuts bill as part of an effort to target purported “waste, fraud and abuse” in government-funded programs. GOP lawmakers have accused NPR and PBS of having a liberal bias, and in March, Republicans claimed that they were “anti-American airwaves.”
That’s the point
Liberal bias because Public broadcasting can’t lie by law when it comes to the news, knowledge and telling the truth they’re considered liberal bias. Idiocracy, 1984 and Handmaids tale are all happening.
Don’t forget brave new world.
but at least we’re not gattaca yet
There are stations in Alaska that got over half their budget from the corporation for public broadcasting that are the only way to get tsunami alerts to a lot of people living on islands up there. If they go dark and nobody dies it will only be through incredible luck.
