President Trump wants to cut funding to ultra liberal npr and pbs (suspect, school)
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I don't listen to NPR so I can't speak on it. PBS is largely about the "arts" one can argue that as a vast generalization the "arts" are "left leaning" but is that really all that offensive?
I don't know the political persuasions of those who bring their items into Antiques Roadshow. Do you?
I would guess that as a vast generalization musicians lean left but I can't ever recall a political diatribe on Austin City Limits. Have you?
Motorweek covers the gas guzzlers along with the electric cars.
I really enjoyed the program the other day on the making of the MLK speech in Washington. Do equal rights issues tend to lean left? It was very educational. Does that bother you?
The tiny amount of each taxpayer's money that goes to the CPB is tiny.
I hear this argument often, the issue is that it's used for so many things. If I buy a coffee for $3 it's a small amount, if I do that every day for a year it's more than $1K annually.
I think any "news" organization, whether it be someone like CNN, FOX, or even a station that has limited news segments like NPR should have to report unbiased news and commentary in order to receive any tax breaks or funding. Give the people some credit and just give them facts and let them come to their own conclusions.
It is unbiased, its just that this country is full of unhinged, radicalized, frothing at mouth wingnuts who rely on a steady diet of misinformation from the likes of FOX News, Breitbart, Rush, Alex Jones, etc., etc. (not to mention these same people make us the dumbest Westernized democracy in the world)
Trump is going after anyone and everyone who does not kiss his ring (like Fox and Friends…Lol) and his petulant behavior is not only tolerated by mainstream Repubs, it is endorsed and approved.
Sad what this country has turned into, it really is.
I hear this argument often, the issue is that it's used for so many things. If I buy a coffee for $3 it's a small amount, if I do that every day for a year it's more than $1K annually.
How much do the bombs we drop daily add up to? Which is doing more good?
It’s not that it “leans to the left”. It’s when right wingers compare it to right wing opinionated Fox News that NPR’s middle of the road approach appears to be leaning to the left to them.
I just read something a couple of days ago that what happens is that the real right wing leaners only - only - get news that is from right-leaning sources. So, everything they see that isn't right leaning, seems really left leaning to them. And, they go out of their way to avoid the resulting cognitive dissonance!
I hear this argument often, the issue is that it's used for so many things. If I buy a coffee for $3 it's a small amount, if I do that every day for a year it's more than $1K annually.
Y'know what? Spend your $3 on your coffee, I'll make it up for you with $3 from my taxes, because I'd rather it goes to PBS/NPR than towards the next bombing.
Y'know what? Spend your $3 on your coffee, I'll make it up for you with $3 from my taxes, because I'd rather it goes to PBS/NPR than towards the next bombing.
False dilemma fallacy. There is no reason we can't eliminate both NPR AND unnecessary bombings/foreign entanglements.
Bottom line, we should not have state run media in America. It's against the spirit of the 1st Amendment, and arguably should be unconstitutional.
Y'know what? Spend your $3 on your coffee, I'll make it up for you with $3 from my taxes, because I'd rather it goes to PBS/NPR than towards the next bombing.
I have choice to buy that coffee, I make my own instead. I'm not given any choice about funding say a theater at a public TV station...
The bomb argument is a red herring. If there is one single function of the federal government it's the defense of this country. We can debate about whether military spending is too much or too little but that is an entirely different debate.
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