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.