Finish them!

The GOP will control Congress and the White House soon. Can we get them to cut federal funding for public radio and NPR?

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Go away boner, not now.

NPR is a left wing information operation.

YES

NPR sells content to local public radio stations. Those stations get money mostly from donations. I don't think you understand the minimal damage refunding would do.

It would suck but it wouldn't interfere with their news programing.

Just get them to cut Marketplace and I'll be happy. Literally shilling and lies: the show

At the rate they beg for money in the major left of center media market known as LA, any less funding would weaken them.

npr is good

there's a reason it is liberal. educated people smart people are liberal. deal with it. peace...

>Marketplace
You mean this ass?

NPR gets like 5% of its revenue from the Fed.

Masquerading as "Business" radio when it's just the smuggest kike on earth lecturing me about gentrification

I can't speak of how that member station is run. Again, NPR just sells them the content. It isn't responsible for running that station.

Mostly him, but the rest of the gang do it too. The only one I would keep is maybe Robert Siegel, because I don't think he really is into the political bent they've been pursuing the last decade.

+11% from the CPB which is the governmennt

that is unacceptable to me. eib gets zero%. taxpayers shouldnt have to pay some fucking radio station so they can call us racists over the airwaves. talk shit with your own money npr.

Kai Ryssdal was shilling so much for Clinton I decided to look into it and found out he actually work at the State Department as a foreign service officer during the Clinton administration in the 90's.

This especially when they know their only listeners are leftists, suburban youth leftists and old folk leftists. They freely admit this when they have an advertising gap and start begging for local investment.

Look, there isn't an hour worth of business news everyday. Apparently this guy has a boner for gentrification stories. Other programs make filler with new sushi restaurant or art events.

oy vey goyim don't you know Wikipedia proved that NPR is biased toward the covservashits?

oy vey now give them shekels since they don't advertise or ask for money

Public radio are the individual radio stations. NPR is a very distinct entity that sells them content. They do not get the same funding nor share funding.

Try to keep up.

If anything, taxpayers should be funding CSPAN since 95℅ of their media is a live stream of Congress. Get the app btw for a radio stream if it isnt in your area.

This whole period I have been forced to listen to NPR's brazen lying about "refugees" and Trump as part of a car pool for work.
I'm from Beuebos Aires and I say kill them all, especially that rape apologist Steve Inskeep, and the incurious self-satisfied catamites from the New Yorker, and the morons (what morons?) who don't know (know?) how to do their job (random sound) at Radio (radio) Lab.
Ira Glass gets to live, even though ironically he is the most irritatingly Jewish, and his grating whining consistently tonally incorrect voice is least fit for radio. The reason Jew among Jews Ira Glass gets to live is he actually does a great job, goes the furthest outside his own echo chamber, and produces objectively good content.

NPR sucks it's all jews and faggots living off nigger gibs

It sucks so bad my local station buys BBC content because NPR just isn't communist enough.

Well then let's make it 0%. C-SPAN is possibly the most objective anglophone news source in existence today; if NPR wants government money then it should operate by the same standards. Trash Morning Edition, trash Steve Inskeep, trash All Things Considered, trash Terry Gross and her celebrity fellating, trash the entire goddamn network and let the smarmy liberals have to think for themselves for once in their peabrained lives.

You guys know it makes you look really petty when you go after stuff like NPR, right?

Everyone knows it has a massive liberal bias but it's really only for smug "enlightened" yuppies to listen to on their commute. Not really harming anyone.

Meanwhile, they get to portray you as anti-free speech, and executing political grudges over a service for the public. It just looks really bad.

Most of the content you complain about is not made by the station. If you donated or underwrote a program, you could ask for more conservative programing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting

>The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is an American non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress and funded by the United States federal government

>For fiscal year 2014, its appropriation was US$445.5 million

Yeah Ira Glass told me about sexually abused 4 year olds called "transgender" years before that became a main stream word.

You are becoming less coherent. Targeting government funding wouldn't change anything about NPR. Your particular grievances don't change that.

>Not really harming anyone.
Misinformation and fake news like NPR is very dangerous. Many people who are forced to listen to it actually believe what they hear.

I live in rural Iowa and every fucking kid from 15-25 listens to NPR all day with their app. It's an infestation of the minds of our youth.

Good, then let's cut the funding. win-win.

>and the morons (what morons?) who don't know (know?) how to do their job (random sound) at Radio (radio) Lab

Jesus christ I laffed

Ira Glass and Ira Flatow really do carry the rest of the socialist mongrels that make up public radio. Wonder which one would win in a fight?

take one look at their front page, I don't give a fuck I bet my life there's biased articles on there right this second, let's see

>white nationalists happy
>poor kentucky town suffering due to less socialism
>people afraid due to sessions being anti weed
>how christianity was reformed for the better
yeah, fuck this leftist framed bullshit

Point to something they've done that is misinformation or fake news. If you want to fight this battle, you need to be able to articulate this.

I'm guilty of it myself, listen to This American Life and a few other entertaining ones on road trips. I do worry about people that aren't able to see the bias and I agree it really primes you to think in a certain mindset in an insidious way, particularly as it relates to immigration/refugees etc. But how can you demonstrate that?

The CPB is not NPR. It gives very little direct funding to it. NPR is not mentioned once in the article you linked.

I miss the comments section. Like 3/4 of the reason I even bothered going to NPR (or almost anywhere on the internet really)

Bullshit. Investopedia puts out ~10 articles a day plus an actually useful personal finance Q/A instead of "durr this is what an option trader is" and obsessing over how Trump doesnt know what "fiduciary" means.

Business might be boring but it's definitely enough to fill up two hours a day without resorting to another gentrification story.

I listen to Marketplace almost every day and it's awful. Not a single story about the DOL rulings for the past six months and that's about to kill my cushy yuppie job.

PLEASE

Yes

You could broadcast solid business news 24/7 and not even scratch the surface of all of the shit going on.

Okay but it would only effect poorer, rural radio markets at a high political cost.

this fuckers voice makes me want to shoot myself in the head. when he does the numbers i want to crash my car into the barrier. when the theme music plays i lose hope.

Marketplace is basically /biz/ radio.

mate look at the picture I posted

11% from CPB. image is from npr's website

I thought you just said it wouldn't change anything.

Also if it will effect additional radio in poor rural markets, then that sounds good to me. We shouldn't leave our rural bros with no radio.

Lord Kek will it.

Unless investopedia starts making an hour long radio program based on those articles, the comparison isn't useful.

Marketplace doesn't benefit from click bait.

We can and we will.

NPR get a pretty small percentage of funding from the government, desu.

Planet Money is great, too.

You aren't smart

Look in the mirror and deal with it.

I like NPR, its the only decent thing we get here in Aus

no, car talk is great

I never said I was smart I just said that liberals are. peace...

Guys, they replay stuff from your NPR here on our national public radio (ABC)

if you cut it out I will not get to hear the calming humm of robert seagull on the radio when I'm out driving

youtu.be/qujfzq29YN0

pls no cut

You guys really don't want to make me angry.

hmm

>While NPR does not receive any direct federal funding, it does receive a small number of competitive grants from CPB and federal agencies like the Department of Education and the Department of Commerce. This funding amounts to approximately 2% of NPR's overall revenues.[20]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR

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thats the reason why the semi-annual pledge drives last three weeks

I know you used an idiom but I am pretty sure the scope of marketplace is very surface.

Don't think you are looking for the same scope as the programs target audience.

While you're at it, please defund the CBC too.

But... Prairie Home Companion is the GOAT comfy radio show

They really should. I remember the day after tump won. The topic on democracy now was "what went wrong?" "How could this have happened?"

It is from the part of the website explaining how NPR member stations are funded differently than NPR. :-(

You know he retired right?

;-(

Eh, at least it isn't cnn.

At its best, it gives me news in the car.
At its worst, it gives me lols in the car.

pretty sure that's been off syndication for several years now

I hate Trump and am an an-cap libertarian. But if we can cut funding to NPR that would be awesome. Same with all public funding of any kind....though I know you statist trumpster fucks would get pissy about that.

consider it done but they get much from gifts and donations so they might not go away.

>smarmy liberals

Got to see him live like two years ago. Shit was cash. There's so much on-stage acting you'd never imagine just by listening to it.

It wouldn't change anything for NPR. The member stations that broadcast NPR programs are independent. Their funding and spending is distinct.

This isn't a hard concept.

oops

Sorry

Car talk is over.

The Lutherans are responsible for all the Somalis

people who talk badly of macarthur should be shot for being uneducated in history tbqh. trumaniteshills DIE reeee

>If you donated or underwrote a program, you could ask for more conservative programing.
Like I could even pay a leftist ideologue to do conservative programming.

NPR is literally stupidity in wave form. Fuck it.

Do you think there is any chance of finding that clip?

Don't cut funding you dumbies. INCREASE IT! NPR is currently relying on lots of money from (((corporations))) and it's affecting their integrity. Allow them to substitute that dirty corporate money with public funds.

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It was a whole show about it. Two families who had young trans boys who finally were happy when they found each other and could play girl together. I want to say maybe Q1 2008 or so. Could be Q1 or even Q2 2009, but I'm pretty sure it was during the Winter months either way due to the angle of the light and the fact that my windows were closed.

The point stands, business news is plentiful. Kai Ryssdal is human click bait.
Car talk and SciFri can stay. I don't care for Prairie Home but I agree, grandma likes to hear the rhubarb pie song while the cancer does its work

Bye bye fair and balanced news. Welcome to the post-fact generation.

Now is the time to invest in fake news companies people.

fuck you and everyone who looks like you

I really enjoy NPR's apolitical content, it's by far my favorite radio content. I hope it isn't killed by a Trump administration, maybe force them to be a bit more bipartisan.

I would like to propose that wait wait be kept as well. It actually manages to be funny more often than not in spite its hardcore bias. Like for instance one time it came on and they spent 5 minutes collectively complaining about how they weren't going to talk about Trump again this week and eventually devolved into making farting noises as an imitation of his speeches.

Now those are the kind of tears that might get me donating again.

Dying Rheme also takes a decent shot at being decent while still allowing you to hear what all the think tanks are planning.

Kai Ryssdal actually said in a interview that he doesn't know anything about business. I'm inclined to believe him.

>The GOP will control Congress and the White House soon. Can we get them to cut federal funding for public radio and NPR?

the federal contribution covers the cost to have an emergency broadcast station that might report the time of day every hour on the hour.

Everything else they broadcast is paid for by their shitty donation drive money (literally half the year they are begging for money on air all day every day).

Cutting the federal contribution would literally change nothing and would cause the government not to have an emergency broadcast station.

Maybe don't ask a leftist ideologue to do the show? The radio station would probably be fine with getting a conservative show as long it isn't Rush Limbaugh tier.

>C-SPAN is a private,nonprofit organization, funded by a 6¢ per subscriberaffiliatefee paid by itscable andsatelliteaffiliates, and does not have advertisements on any of its networks, radio stations, or websites, nor does it ever solicit donations or pledges. The network operates independently, and neither the cable industry nor Congress has control of the content of its programming.

I dont give a fuck. I work my ass off to pay taxes. I do not want 1 fucking penny going to a liberal radio show.

Only good thing about NPR is Car Talk, but that's syndicated now. Only listen to NPR on the weekends for that hour of car talk and hour of Zorba Pastor.

It's so blatantly left leaning it's disgusting.

Link to interview please I must validate my hate

Sounds about right for the scope of his show.

Fuck yeah, fellow Mac bro.

How dare they talk quietly about current events!

The only thing that is, even in reruns.

cspan is surprisingly good. This past election they generally delivered whenever I just needed a fucking stream that would work.

And sometimes they do funny shit like I remember having it on in the lounge in college for some hearing or other and everybody was doing nothing for about 20 minutes until the next round of hearings started, so the camera man got bored and started zooming in on the guys with still frame cameras crawling around on the floor like commandos until they noticed they were being broadcast by cspan and got really bug-eyed and uncomfortable.

It was a very sensible chuckle.

I only have to read the comments at my station's website to see there is a vocal group that won't stand for any diversity of opinion.