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Brendan Carr described as “Trump’s Censorship Czar” as he launches media probes.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is the reason I’ve added my NPR stations to my donations list. Fuck the republican traitor filth. Now and forever, every republican can fuck off and die.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Same, NPR, PBS and ProPublica I don't want to lose sources that still do real journalism.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

oh shit, propublica, good call.

[–] SuzyQ 11 points 4 days ago

I added NPR and PBS to my monthly donation list as well. I wonder how many others will contribute what they can now thanks to this investigation?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wait until fox news becomes federally funded and the official ~~lies~~ news of the government.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

They could do even worse and make it Newsmax or neo OAN.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Last I checked, they both get less than 10% of their funding from the government, and that amount is less than 0.5% of our military budget.

I'm not surprised by this, but it needs to be said: They need an efficiency checker for their efficiency checkers. In and of itself, trying to defund NPR and PBS is just wasting money and time on virtue signalling, or the right's equivalent. So doge is off to a great start, lol.

[–] TaiCrunch 26 points 4 days ago

They've been going after public media since Nixon. Of course, it would hit their key demographic--rural areas--the hardest, who rely on public media for things like emergency alerts. Not to mention public media is the only source of local quality journalism for a lot of places.

But who cares about all that when we can let Sinclair Broadcasting take over and get rid of all that "woke" stuff?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Probably would have been yesterday if an opportunity to blame over 60 deaths on people not being white males didn’t appear.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I recently watched this wonderful video by Matt Baume that he released 3 months ago about the last time republicans wanted to defund PBS and NPR. The stated reasons and rational always change but its just hatred of non-commercial media

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

More evil shit. All they can do is tear things down, never create.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Eat a blizzard of dicks my guy. Car Talk and Radiolab are fuckin bangers!