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Executive Order Issued to Eliminate Funding for CPB

Friday, 2 May 2025, 19:00 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 18

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Thursday to end public funding of National Public Radio and PBS to stop what he called “biased and partisan news coverage.”

The order directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to “cease federal funding for NPR and PBS” to the extent allowed by law. The order could be challenged in court.

“Unlike in 1967, when the CPB was established, today the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options,” the Thursday night executive order reads. “Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.” More

18 Comments on Executive Order Issued to Eliminate Funding for CPB

  1. Long ago and far away PBS was a quality source of in-depth and entertaining programs. Shows like American Experience, NOVA, Frontline, and so on, provided a launching pad for us to continue our own reading and research into a particular subject that we may never have known about.

    Now, like all BBC productions, our family knows better than to watch anything coming from the CPB, because no matter how politically-neutral the subject (think: cooking shows), there will be that NPR-like voice of absolute authority and high-horsed wisdom who will remind everyone that the fancy polenta being prepared is the cousin of the grit. And grits, as we all know, were the mainstay diet of those poor slaves of the south. Or, grits were the national diet of the Aztecs (whom the Euro-trash conquerors killed by the thousands).

    In a very funny way, these sorts of voice-over reminders remind me of the father in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, who used every opportunity to remind his kids of the superiority of the Greeks by demonstrating the Greek origins of every other language’s words.

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  2. Good News. Not one more taxpayer penny to those liberal sucks.

    I didn’t even like the weak PBS sound alert of an upcoming program: three soft, almost muffled bell sounds, along with 3 stupid cartoon profiles, perfect for liberal chicken-hearts.

    Liberal NYC “man” to his “wife: Dear, I just heard the three bells on PBS. They’re going to show something really wonderful…Oh, Good. Another one exposing communist hater Joe McCarthy.

    Liberal “wife”: Oh, I heard those bells too…I’m excited. I’ll bring you your cookies and milk, dear.

    Liberal “man”: Honey, can you go get our Red Diaper baby so she can watch PBS with us? We must instill good communist values in her as early as we can! She must know what an evil and horrible man McCarthy was. Why, he was worse than Hitler!

    Liberal “wife”: Of course. Darling, after the McCarthy program, Bill Moyers will be on. We’ll be up all night discussing his wonderful insights, along with our baby daughter. Tomorrow, at the Upper-West Side Club, we’ll talk to all our friends about it.

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  3. Nothing loud to “trigger” their viewers… like playing soft, soothing music in the psych ward.

    PBS begging season is going to be one long, obnoxious Telethon. I can almost picture something like what Rex Hubbard did by pointing directly to the camera and saying “YOUR TELEVISION WILL GO BLACK IF YOU DON’T CONTRIBUTE A MINIMUM OF $50 RIGHT NOW!”

    Fuk ’em!

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  5. Bill Moyers, the PBS arse-hole..read his words (wikipedia):

    “the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero. …—part of the red-meat strategy is to attack mainstream media relentlessly, knowing that if the press is effectively intimidated, either by the accusation of liberal bias or by a reporter’s own mistaken belief in the charge’s validity, the institutions that conservatives revere—corporate America, the military, organized religion, and their own ideological bastions of influence—will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence over American public life with relatively no challenge.”

    The LBJ’er from the 60’s is still around.

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  8. @Abigail

    Good point about Greek. Most words I read seem to be of Latin or German origin. If Latin, then via (that’s one!) France to Britain, I suspect. If German, then taken to England by Angles, Saxons, and Jutes – invaders after Rome gave it up, I think. England was once “Angland”. The only Greek I know is souvlaki and retsina. I like the cuisine well enough, though.

    Don’t mind me, I’m just a nerd who reads too much.

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  12. @Tim — Well then, if you haven’t seen “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, it’s a very funny film that throws in every cliche’ about an American-Greek family. Actually, its story line and cliches’ could be used for any 1800’s/early 1900s immigrant family. Humor has universal truths, right?

    “Give me a word, any word…”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXt0VCPKfQ4

    Of course my point was that with the Left, they say “Give me a subject, any subject” and they will find a way (to try) to prove the oppressed/oppressor relationship and the entire constellation of accusations against the oppressors in it.

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  15. But the budget proposal includes $1,000,000,000,000 for “defense” as if there is ZERO waste, corruption, graft, theft, etc. in an organization that has NEVER passed an audit and who admits to having lost SEVERAL TRILLION including right before the false flag of 9-11. Yes, fuck the CPB, but ALSO FUCK THE DOD.

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  16. @Abigail

    I have never seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I once worked with a lady who said her husband was from that particular Greek family.

    If I ever see the movie available on a flight, I’ll be sure to watch it.

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