Not enough money for big bird. But money to spare for a fascist private jet. Tragic
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Ice, more money to the pentagon and to support Isreal's genocide and apartheid.
Don't forget the golden ballroom. Fucking bastards.
Has Big Bird tried installing a golden toilet at the CPB?
Big bird replaced by orange bird
Man they are STEALING our AIRWAVES
WE PAID FOR THIS. WE DID, NOT TRUMP. The CPB did more for rural Americans than nearly anything i can think of.
And the GOP murdered it for votes. Sacrificed Sesame Street on the altar.
I motion that in the absence of the Congressionally-created CPB, all airwaves are public, fuck the FCC. Let's go Pirate Radio.
The CPB did more for rural Americans than nearly anything i can think of.
And they voted HEAVILY for this.
I had to deal with right wingers all throughout Kansas whining that NPR did nothing for them and was coastal elites while their local stations were doing Harvest Public Media specifically to deal with news on the agriculture locally while Faux News couldn't give two shits about Kansas.
I'm not happy about it, but there's going to be a lot of "We didn't vote for this" which I'll happily tell them yes, yes they did.
There’s gonna be an empty band in the airwaves where PBS used to be.
IPTV stream of Ms Rachel, interspersed with leftist messages every 20-30mins, image macro saying how easy it is to set up a transmitter for your community, post it on social media everywhere…
No there won't. They'll auction those bandd off to the highest qualified bidder. Qualified meaning president-approved propaganda outlets only. So as you say, nothing of value would be lost if someone were to transmit over them.
Except it's incredibly easy to notice and stop people from doing that.
I know exactly 0 people who are still watching over-the-air TV.
Lots of people in rural areas still do. Places where cable companies don't offer service because it's not profitable.
I know exactly 0 people who are still watching over-the-air TV.
What does "false consensus" mean?
Problem with leading with the fact that NPR only gets a small portion of it’s budget from the CPP, is that it ignores that the locally funded affiliates pay for NPRs content. And a lot of those smaller affiliates are now going away.
From this article from WABE that I looked up after seeing this post (WABE happens to be the station that I listen to when I can):
Although NPR, which produces news programs such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered,**relies on direct federal funds for only a small portion of its budget, its approximately 1,000 member stations receive a heftier portion of their operating revenue through CPB. With its nightly PBS News Hour and children’s programming, such as Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, PBS gets around 15% of its revenue from federal money, as do its member stations on average.
Fucking ending the article with a Trump shit spewing quote. Just to really leave an even extra awful taste after reading about this.
This is just sad
What a shame.
Welp back to the Joe Rogan Experience! slowly puts on nazi armband /s
If PBS only aired programming about how our water is turning the frogs gay. Then they’d be non-partisan enough to remain funded.
Wow Trump probably killed Elmo and Big Bird. What a fucking monster.
well... this is going to cause a chilling effect. :/