Friday, May 02, 2025

Trump Says He's Ending Federal Funding for NPR and PBS

President Trump issued an executive order late Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board of directors to "cease federal funding for NPR and PBS," the nation's primary public broadcasters, claiming ideological bias.

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It is not clear that the president has the authority to make such orders to CPB under the law. From @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

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-- NPR (@npr.org) May 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM

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"It is not clear that the president has the authority to make such orders to CPB under the law.

PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger called it a "blatantly unlawful Executive Order, issued in the middle of the night."

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"CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President's authority," the corporation wrote in a statement issued Friday morning. "Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government."

The CPB noted that the statute Congress passed to create it "expressly forbade 'any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors."

Congress said that recipients of such funds "may be used at the discretion of the recipient" for producing or acquiring programs to put on the air."

First they came for Public Broadcasting....

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-02 12:16 PM

They do have a bias, towards truth and knowledge. So of course King Dotard XIV would hate them. If he watched more PBS maybe he'd actually know what the Declaration of Independence was.

#2 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-05-02 12:55 PM

Our tax dollars should not go to them unless they stop leaning left and go politically neutral.

#3 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-05-02 03:04 PM

On principle, I agree. However pretty sure these were created by congress. A much better approach would be to replace their staff with right-wing ideological hacks and let the Democrats go from there.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-05-03 12:35 AM

Our tax dollars should not go to them unless they stop leaning left and go politically neutral.

#3 | Posted by MSgt

They don't lean either way.

Just news and facts. Nowadays, you right wingers consider truth and facts "left leaning."

#5 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-03 01:29 AM

"Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government."

So, a "fourth branch of government"?

#6 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-03 05:43 AM

#1. First "they" came for public broadcasting.

NO! - first Public Broadcasting itself came for and took away the ability and right of the taxpaying public to comment directly via public comments on NPR and PBS news articles. They wanted the public muzzled and taxpayers paying, because they wanted total editorial control. They wanted to end populism and public voice after Trump was first elected. They were always biased politically.

They ended public engagement. They wanted public to pay but they took away the right of public to comment just like most of the leftwing MSM (NYT, Advance Publications, Huffington, Local news, WAPO etc.

See NPR article "A year after NPR ends commenting, no plans to revive it - AUGUST 24, 2017 BY Elizabeth Jensen" public commenting was a fixture since 2008.

#7 | Posted by Robson at 2025-05-03 09:47 AM

#7

Apparently after SO many Trump Media Lies, factual reporting as we see from Public Broadcasting is painful to Magats.

Trump LIES to you several times a day, and you love it.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-03 11:13 AM

MAGA requires blatant right-wing propaganda, which is mostly lies to forward a fascist agenda

#9 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-03 11:25 AM

... claiming ideological bias. ...

ideological bias compared to what?


#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-03 01:46 PM

---- Off Robson, you squealing fat pig.

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-03 01:46 PM

@#3 ... Our tax dollars should not go to them unless they stop leaning left and go politically neutral. ...

Aside from what I see on media bias sites, including the one you have cited in the past, NPR is more centrist and factual than, say, Fox News.

NPR (National Public Radio) -- Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate NPR (National Public Radio) Left-Center Biased based on story selection that leans slightly left and High for factual reporting due to thorough sourcing and accurate news reporting. ...

OK, "leans slightly left" and "factual reporting due to thorough sourcing and accurate news reporting."

Hmmm... factual reporting. Maybe that is why Pres trump has an issue with CPB?

Now, let's do Fox News ...

(and note, this is the Fox News website, which I have thought to be more credible than the Fox News cable network. YMMV, though)

Fox News (foxnews.com) " Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate Fox News right biased based on editorial positions that align with the right and Questionable due to the promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, the use of poor sources, and numerous false claims and failed fact checks.

Straight news reporting from beat reporters is generally fact-based and accurate, which earns them a Mixed factual rating. ...



And so long as I was at that media bias site, I popped this one in ...

Drudge Retort " Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate the Drudge Retort Left Biased based on the use of mostly left or left-center sources. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to the use of some sources that have failed fact checks as well as a lack of transparency. ...


Wait, what?

This most august site got a "Mixed" for factual reporting, better than the "Questionable" that Fox News got?

Well, ain't that a twist.




#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-03 06:32 PM

OK, one more, and I'll pause for a while ...

Here's a news site I often cite ...

Newsweek " Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate Newsweek Right-Center Biased based on editorial positions that slightly favor the right. We also rate them as Mostly Factual in reported rather than high due to having to make corrections on false information after publication. ...

I do give Newsweek credit for making and publishing those corrections.


#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-03 06:38 PM

Interesting ...

The thread went quiet ....


#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-03 09:20 PM

So, a "fourth branch of government"?

#6 | POSTED BY CHILIGORDO

Maybe the fourth estate but obviously not a co-equal branch of government.

Stay in school kids. Don't be THAT GUY.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-04 01:01 PM

Our tax dollars should not go to them unless they stop leaning left and go politically neutral.

#3 | POSTED BY MSGT

So you will let them exist as long as they say what you want to hear. Who gets to decide what is "politically neutral"? You?

And in Trumplandia is ANYTHING "politically neutral" anymore?

So much for FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

And unsurprisingly Dingaling agrees!

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-04 01:09 PM

Leftists are now and always were war mongering left wing neocons owned and operated by foreign owned media schemers pretending to be Americans.

#17 | Posted by Robson at 2025-05-04 06:14 PM

They pretend to be "allies" while they screw us and create more war.

#18 | Posted by Robson at 2025-05-04 06:51 PM

Runaway Robson!

Ran away from this:

drudge.com

aka

"In Trump's America, the Oligarchy Is Done Pretending to Care About You

The world's richest people are done feigning concern for vulnerable communities or our democracy. Trump can do whatever he wants, and they can, too"

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-oligarchs-musk-bezos-zuckerberg- 1235242625/

#19 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-04 07:05 PM

www.rollingstone.com

#20 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-04 07:05 PM

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