Did you know - Project 2025 calls for the FCC to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting!
Goodbye PBS, NPR, and other public broadcasting platforms! #VoteTogether 💙
@duglop Of course! They want to make sure that anything that gets public funding supports their big lie(s), so any organizations that speak the truth and have morals will have to go.
Isn't that a bit like wanting to kill benefits for non-citizens that they already can't qualify for? I'd be surprised if the FCC actually 'funds' any of those.
@Sr0bi it's not the 1st time this has been brought up - but anyhow, it's all right here:
Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation have plans to defund public broadcasting
No doubt they want to but they don't always have the facts when they come up with these schemes. Still, it makes good meat to throw out there for the MAGA hoard.
@Sr0bi have you looked at Project 2025? If nopt, I STRONGLY suggest you do - there's A LOT you could say the same thing about ass well, but the way they're going to go about it ... yeah
@Sr0bi ugh- that was riddled with gibberish typos - I gotta clean that up for my sakes =\
nopt = not
ass = as
I've said 100 times I effing hate this new keyboard, the keys are closer together than I prefer
@duglop CPB provides little funding for PBS, NPR and other platforms. The big threat is the loss of big underwriters who increasing use the targeting tools of Facebook and X to reach the target audiences. That's why NPR keeps asking us to step up and donate more money.
@peterquirk coming from someone who has Project 2025 info all over your profile, you sure sound confident in your statement - but what you just said is NOT what Project 2025 is targeting...
@duglop Some have argued that NPR and PBS should move more rapidly to become self-sufficient so that the governemnt cannot threaten them by withholding funds for the CPB.
@duglop Here's a list of different funding models used around the world for public media.
https://www.publicmediaalliance.org/about-us/what-is-psm/psm-funding-models/
Maybe more out-of-the-box thinking is required, involving a mashup of Public Benefit Corporation with a mutual organization. Mutual shareholders could choose to reinvest their dividends back into the broadcaster.
@peterquirk again there's a little more to Project 2025, we're done here
@duglop Yes - they want to impose licensing fees and commercial regulations on public broadcasters. They want to remove the 2-year advance appropriation that makes it easier to plan for entire seasons of programming. (Imagine facing the threat of a broadcasting shutdown every year.) They'd clearly like to reassign the lower 20 FM frequencies (a so-called privilege) to commercial interests desirous of more spectrum.
@peterquirk I'm going to post a few links and then I'm done
Project 2025 has plans to defund PBS and other public broadcasting companies as well as they have proposed an agenda to eliminate the department of education
https://www.mediamatters.org/project-2025/project-2025-and-heritage-foundation-have-plans-defund-public-broadcasting
@peterquirk This one's directly from the heritage company AKA the horse's mouth
And the title says it all
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/the-next-gop-president-should-defund-woke-public-broadcasting
@peterquirk And this right here is part of the direction they want to go now...
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/07/09/project-2025-looks-to-impose-publicly-funded-religious-education-on-america-ohio-already-has-that/
@duglop BTW, I've never understood why conservatives didn't create NPR affiliates to redress the perceived liberal bias. Stations like Radio Free Hillsdale don't run a single interview with a Democrat.
@peterquirk Let's just vote blue so it doesn't come to any of this because too many people aren't taking Project 2025 serious, and that's alarming...
@duglop I've been trying to get my RW friend to react to sections of it. He regurgitates Trump's line that it has nothing to do with him.
@duglop
I forget who said it first—but, Project 2025 is our "Mein Kampf"