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 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 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/