Progressive Politics

Who cares!? we're getting a new ballroom!!! /s

In an age of podcasts and laptops, public broadcasting networks can become way bigger than ever, and they can be made with maximum decentralization. Expanding into scripted tv can be a natural step.

If you aren't one of the ones to help build it, spread the idea as wide as you can.

It can be international.

Good. They went through their knees for Trump and now they are finding out what compromising with Fascism gets them.

Hmm. And all of the neolibs have been saying for years that “barely any NPR/PBS funding comes from the government anyway!” But now they’re shutting down without it? Always knew they were full of shit.

Fuck’em. They’ve been manufacturing consent for atrocities since their inception. Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent exposed the whole game back in the 80’s, and they went into overdrive after 9/11.

I used to listen to NPR on my commute, but finally called it when they rehashed a CIA press release verbatim without even a hint of scrutiny. They were running covert ads as stories, they fired their ombudsman for finally calling them out on the degrading coverage, they helped bury the Bernie campaign in bad coverage (while giving Clinton softball praise), continually pushed Islamophobic narratives, etc. While their coverage always had propaganda spread throughout, there was at least some kernel of truth in their stories for a while. But they completely squandered any amount of trust they’d built. Now there’s too few people left to defend them. I have no sympathy.