The deed has finally been done.
Not unlike many activities of the federal government, funding PBS and NPR was profoundly unconstitutional. It does not even remotely resemble the enumerated powers in Article 1, Section 8.
Conservatives tend to lump these two entities together but, in my opinion, they are vastly different.
PBS has some very good programming.. and also some bad programming. However, its news shows and public affairs programming are mostly awful. They tilt decidedly to the left.
NPR is a gathering spot for smug, self-satisfied, urban elites who proselytize a certain worldview; and who regard conservatives, real Christians and rural Americans with condescension and contempt.
NPR oozes with liberalism and cultural Marxism; and it promotes socialism. It has virtually no redeeming value.
These entities’ use of tax dollars to advance a certain political and cultural agenda has been reprehensible for decades. It is very satisfying to see Trump and the Republicans do the right thing.
PBS and NPR will likely survive; but they will need to do so with contributions from those who consume their products; and also from corporations and the individual states. They might have to rely to a greater extent on their archives of older material. Blue states might pick up some of the funding slack, I suppose.
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Fred, Brandon Gill is a very talented guy. In case you were unaware, he is married to Dinesh D’Souza’s daughter.
This Maher lady is typical…
NPR virtually never did a story in which the conclusion was not that the government was not big enough and taxpayers should be paying more. If Big Brother ever had a handmaiden, it was NPR.
Yes, J. Sobran. And my point in the post is that, although both are bad in their own way, NPR is worse than PBS– qualitatively and quantitatively.
It is also interesting that the NPR stations always seem to have some of the most powerful broadcasting signals on the FM spectrum. All that taxpayer money, I suppose.