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Post by School-Cotton »

thevillagechief wrote: post #13

Woah! This stuff is unwinding faster than my priors. I'm going to have to re-evaluate everything I thought true about the US. I just always assumed "strong institutions" meant something here. That it was all a house built on sand is disconcerting.

Europeans seem to understand this better than Americans, because the US has never really devolved from democracy into authoritarianism, but several European countries have. That's why e.g. in Germany it's possible to ban political parties that have as their goal the overflow of the democratic order.

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Post by buerkle »

radiofreeeuropa wrote: post #233
nemomarx wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Large groups voting for "tear it all down, we don't trust institutions" wasn't a sign for you back in 2016? what were your priors before this year?

My "holy shit, we're in for... interesting times, and like, soon " moment was when Trump suggested his supporters might shoot Hillary if she won ("If she wins, I can't do anything about it. But the 'Second Amendment people'...."), and didn't see a huge hit to his popularity, and supporters in his own camp distancing themselves, immediately. Norms are dead, you can just suggest assassination of your opponent and still…

Just this week Trump posted on his social media that Obama should be indicted for treason, aka, executed and not a blip from the supposed left-wing media

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Post by hitekker »

nabwodahs wrote: post #124
smithkl42 wrote: post #76

> Public media has been one of the most trusted institutions in American life, providing educational opportunity, emergency alerts, civil discourse, and cultural connection to every corner of the country,” Harrison said. If that was true, losing the CPB would be a travesty. But as a loyal NPR listener for decades, I've found their stuff lately to be unlistenable. It's Fox, but for the Left, and with a bit more of an…

Can you cite specific examples of this "bias?"

"Babies are not babies until they are born. They’re fetuses." from https://wamu.org/story/19/05/15/guidance-reminder-on-abortio...

I'm not against abortion. In fact, I actually see the legal necessity of it in an overpopulating world. But NPR's bias on the front does not align with my own bias or, I think, with most people.

Everyone has bias and that's perfectly human. The problem is when we don't own up to it. NPR tries to cover theirs with circuitous language and lies-by-omission, https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2019/05/29/7280694.... That double-talk served well in insulating them from criticism, but it ended up costing them the public trust.

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Post by CommenterPerson »

TheCondor wrote: post #221
CGMthrowaway wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>PBS Newshour Haven't watched this since I was a kid. Just scrubbed through the latest episode. I was surprised, it's not bad. Left-leaning to my eye, but FAR less so than any other left-leaning mainstream TV media I can think of. And as you point out, more substantial and meaningful coverage than you typically get anywhere else. I would be happy to encourage anyone to watch more PBS Newshour based on that

Is there a specific example of the left-leaning bias you can mention?

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias"

.. Stephen Colbert

Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

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Post by legitster »

Cyph0n wrote: post #199
wffurr wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Losing PBS Kids will be a tragedy. One of the few high quality sources of kids' programming out there. So much of the commercial options are dreck.

+1. PBS Kids is a goldmine. Time to sails the high seas if you aren’t already :) The other tragedy is the PBS Kids Games app on iOS and Android. It is chock full of educational games that tie into the various shows.

As a reminder, none of these are going away (yet). So far this only affects smaller member stations and the larger bottom lines of PBS and NPR.

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Post by drozycki »

glial wrote: post #213
vel0city wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> public funding for my local NPR and PBS stations Ah, so it's not going anywhere because it's not directly affecting your station. Got it. For many other people it is going away . This will affect your station though. Lots of stations spent a good bit of their budgets on content from PBS and NPR. While direct federal sources aren't a massive chunk of their income, revenues from member stations is . This will impact…

Is there any way to find out which stations will be affected, and by how much (e.g. proportion of budget)?

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/01/cpb-npr-pbs-corporation-pub...

Some stations will lose 2%, others 98%.

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Post by user3939382 »

jmull wrote: post #222
legitster wrote: post #38

Contrary to the conservative spin over the years, I have found public broadcasting to be one of the least biased sources of headline news and information available. (For their national broadcasts at least - local ... can be hit or miss). In particular, their kids programming is the absolute best. Nothing flashy or exciting, but it's laser focused on education and has zero agenda. And the PBS kids apps are one of the…

> one of the least biased sources of headline news and information available I’m pretty sure that’s the fundamental problem they have with it. They want media whose content they control. (All of this is about control/power, not making things nice or doing things right.)

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Post by radiofreeeuropa »

Arubis wrote: post #29
thevillagechief wrote: post #13

Woah! This stuff is unwinding faster than my priors. I'm going to have to re-evaluate everything I thought true about the US. I just always assumed "strong institutions" meant something here. That it was all a house built on sand is disconcerting.

The institutions WERE strong. It’s taken decades to unwind them. But yes, we’ve definitely crossed a big acceleration lately.

Capturing the Supreme Court so completely was the turning point, in terms of ability to enact their agenda quickly. It's been conservative my entire not short any more life, but it's strongly packed with disingenuous, ideologically-motivated jurists vetted and guided by the "correct" organizations, now.

I wish anyone with even a little power were talking about ditching the position of "Supreme Court Justice" and just drawing for the role by lot from the "lower" federal courts each term. That could be done with a law, not an amendment-there has to be a Supreme Court, and federal judgeships are "during good behavior" (de facto "for life") but Supreme Court Justice per se doesn't have to be a permanent role. The closest I hear anyone talking about is court expansion, but that's a less-effective fix, and one more likely to draw strong push-back and to be unpopular, I think.

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Post by lokar »

jmull wrote: post #222
legitster wrote: post #38

Contrary to the conservative spin over the years, I have found public broadcasting to be one of the least biased sources of headline news and information available. (For their national broadcasts at least - local ... can be hit or miss). In particular, their kids programming is the absolute best. Nothing flashy or exciting, but it's laser focused on education and has zero agenda. And the PBS kids apps are one of the…

> one of the least biased sources of headline news and information available I’m pretty sure that’s the fundamental problem they have with it. They want media whose content they control. (All of this is about control/power, not making things nice or doing things right.)

Facts have a well known liberal bias

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Post by CGMthrowaway »

TheCondor wrote: post #221
CGMthrowaway wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>PBS Newshour Haven't watched this since I was a kid. Just scrubbed through the latest episode. I was surprised, it's not bad. Left-leaning to my eye, but FAR less so than any other left-leaning mainstream TV media I can think of. And as you point out, more substantial and meaningful coverage than you typically get anywhere else. I would be happy to encourage anyone to watch more PBS Newshour based on that

Is there a specific example of the left-leaning bias you can mention?

The show had six guests on- 2 left, 1 right, 2 neutral(?) and 1 CIA deep state mouthpiece. The show gave mostly balanced coverage of every issue covered, but declined to dig into the Epstein issue beyond "Trump+Epstein", gave the deep-stater seven minutes to defend the CIA without meaningfully pressing into any of the other questions raised by the latest declassifications (such as HRC & DNC involvement in orchestrating Russiagate), flashed a debunked/misleading statistic on screen about Russians influencing the the 2020 election via social media, and gave a one-sided take on redistricting in Texas ignoring the side that says redistricting after a Census is normal and routine.
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