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
@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 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 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