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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the conduit for federal funds to NPR and PBS, announced on Friday that it is beginning to wind down its operations given President Trump has signed a law clawing back $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting through fiscal year 2027.

The announcement follows a largely party-line vote last month that approved the cuts to public broadcasting as part of a $9 billion rescissions package that also included cuts to foreign aid that was sent by the White House earlier this year. While public media officials had held a glimmer of hope that lawmakers would restore some of the money in the following year, the Senate Appropriations Committee declined to do that on Thursday.

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[–] recursivepickle@piefed.dk 45 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

What a muthafuggin' bunch of rotten tyrannic cunts.

With the CPB gone in less than a few years, will it be possible at all, to get non-cable news, in the US?

[–] pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

CBS NBC and FOX are still available without cable in most places if that's what you mean. Aka with an antenna.

Or you could use the internet for news

[–] Azal@pawb.social 7 points 13 hours ago

So I'm lucky that KCUR is a good local station that talks the local. But we also get a lot from the Kansas Public Radio on the farming communities out west, the sort of places CBS, NBC, and FOX all ignore, much less the internet unless someone has a weirdly specific blog.

And a lot of these places the antenna isn't going to get you much. So lot of the farm crowd that voted this way thought they were abandoned by the coasts before, gonna really suck for them now.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 96 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

We are living in a country, and a reality, in which the American president was so threatened by this little dude, that he has almost entirely defunded public broadcasting.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Now they'll use that money to create a ministry of propaganda.

It’ll be spelled “PragerU”

I wish I were joking

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago

At least the propaganda will be used on the public. /s

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Ministry of Truth, the Best Truth, the "They come to me and say 'Mr. Trump, this is the greatest and truest thing I've ever seen,' Yeah, they really said that about me, the truth" Truth

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

Your social credit will be available via TruthSocial 🤮

[–] atticus88th@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I should see if they are hiring, probably good pay if I heil the orange turd at the office occasionally.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

ICE just announced $50,000 signing bonuses because they want to hire 10,000 new agents. Sick

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 63 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Here in Kansas City, we were able to fill the $500,000 funding gap for our local station KCUR with donations. I imagine many rural areas will not be so lucky.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 6 points 13 hours ago

Hello neighbor! I was thinking the same thing with Kansas Public Radio and their Harvest Public Media segments.

Gonna suck for a lot of people that voted for this. Oh well.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Not great though. Our taxes should be funding these stations.

[–] recursivepickle@piefed.dk 10 points 17 hours ago

Your taxes will be funding the billionaires. Lovely.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 49 points 20 hours ago

lol .... Idiocracy is a warning ... not a template of what you should be doing.