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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

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Post by Teever »

timdiggerm wrote: post #244
Workaccount2 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure with Trump this time around it is much less the case. In his first admin there are endless stories of the "Adults" in the room keeping him in check. This time around he was sure to only fill his cabinet with yes men, so no one could keep him reigned in.

You're right that last time there were "adults in the room" trying to keep him in check. This time, however, he's often doing whatever Heritage/Project 2025 tell him to do. Russell Vought, Stephen Miller, John McEntee, etc.

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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

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Post by dfxm12 »

beardedwizard wrote: post #42
cyberlurker wrote: post #14

Is it unusual for an executive order to claim something like this without any citation or reference? > The CPB fails to abide by these principles to the extent it subsidizes NPR and PBS. > Which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does not matter. > What does matter is that neither entity presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens.

I'm a big supporter of NPR but you don't need to look hard to see their progressive bias.

I don't think bias is the right word. It's more that a station not bound by corporate sponsors better has the ability to reflect the voice of the people, and Americans generally lean progressive when you ask them directly about policy.

Most Americans wanting to tax the rich/large corporations: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/19/most-amer...

Wanting to legalize marijuana: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/03/26/most-america...

The government should supply universal healthcare to Americans: https://news.gallup.com/poll/468401/majority-say-gov-ensure-...

Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

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Post by jimbokun »

BanazirGalbasi wrote: post #216
throwawaymaths wrote: post #125

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the scotus (and, notably, conservative lower federal judges) has ruled pretty firmly against trump on the abrego garcia case.

What action has been taken as a result of that ruling though? The Supreme Court might as well give the president a big thumbs down if nothing actually happens.

What independent military and police force does the Supreme Court command?

Laws are useful fictions that evaporate when enough people stop believing in them.

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Post by jasondigitized »

mike_hearn wrote: post #72
hadrien01 wrote: post #2

I suppose this is in response to this executive order: ENDING TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZATION OF BIASED MEDIA https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/endi... I would add that PBS has this to say about public media funding: > The U.S. is almost literally off the chart for how little we allocate towards our public media. At the federal level, it comes out to a little over $1.50 per person per year. Compare that…

PBS would say that. Back here in reality the BBC is trusted by only about 40-44% of the British population, and actively distrusted by around a quarter. The true number who trust it is probably lower, as those polls suffer volunteering bias and other problems that push responses to the left when there's no ground truth to weight to. There's a profound moral problem with forcing people to pay money for media they acti…

Wait until you hear about Fox News which is funded by advertisers who make money from people's pockets.

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Post by tart-lemonade »

next_xibalba wrote: post #154
TimorousBestie wrote: post #135

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I can’t be sure but I assume they’re talking about this: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178... This is an interview with an author that NPR acknowledges as controversial, not NPR presenting the author’s opinions as fact. But I doubt the distinction matters in the current rhetorical environment.

That acknowledgement was tacked on well after publication. Even interviewing this person was an absurdity and revelatory of the kind of bias at npr. Truly insane.

> That acknowledgement was tacked on well after publication.

The original title was "One Author's Argument 'In Defense Of Looting'".

https://web.archive.org/web/20200827191914/https://www.npr.o...

> Even interviewing this person was an absurdity and revelatory of the kind of bias at npr.

So news organizations should not cover things which may seem sensational, especially those which are being actively talked about in the context of the current news cycle?

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Post by alabastervlog »

trust_bt_verify wrote: post #224
alabastervlog wrote: post #129

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> the Fox News of the left When I watch Fox News it's usually pretty easy to spot several things that are simply made-up per day. Including entire stories. You hear much of that on NPR? [EDIT] FWIW I think NPR news is god-awful, because they focus way too much on horse-race politics crap and Monday-morning quarterbacking campaigns, I suppose because they're so scared shitless by accusations of bias that they prefer t…

You won’t hear that on NPR and this is why the ‘both sides’ argument has been so detrimental to American’s perception of their media.

A news source aiming to independently investigate and report where reality stands in relation to opposing political talking points is an opportunity for bias, but you're guaranteed bias against reality if you don't do that part, is the thing.

Most folks haven't thought about that too much, though, and/or haven't had much education in politics and media, so "fair and balanced" and "we report, you decide" resonate as slogans, rather than smelling fishy.

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Post by vel0city »

jimbokun wrote: post #258
vel0city wrote: post #134

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The courts have so far been exceptionally weak. Hey, you're not allowed to send those people on the plane! The plane already left even though I told you not to send it? Well, you gotta get them back! You're not sending them back? I'll just keep telling you that you have to do it, that'll really show you! Oh, pretty please, would you return that man you illegally sent to that torture prison? No? Oh, ok, well would you…

What the fuck are they supposed to do? They don't have their own independent military and police force. Constitutions, laws, democracies are a fragile illusion that disappear the second enough people stop believing that they're real.

That's my point. People looking to the idea that the courts are going to somehow save this descent into tyranny aren't paying attention.

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Post by jeffbee »

sorcerer-mar wrote: post #232
voakbasda wrote: post #92

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I have been saying for decades that the most active terrorist organization in the United States is… the US government.

Great, you're part of the problem.

10000000%

The people who are out here saying "totalitarianism was the inevitable consequence of federal standards for feces in bologna" are exactly the problem in America today.

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Post by jimbokun »

voakbasda wrote: post #92
andrewl wrote: post #50

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Weird is not the term for it. I'd say suspension of due process is terrifying .

I have been saying for decades that the most active terrorist organization in the United States is… the US government.

That's just dumb.

Authoritarian governments and terrorist organizations are not the same thing.

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Post by mistrial9 »

curiousgal wrote: post #189
erkt wrote: post #73

Not much of a quote. > “CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government. “In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television o…

I am sorry but what the fuck does a balanced programming look like? Having an openly racist host spewing shit about women and immigrants?

the most openly racist thing I have heard on NPR was a talk show host accusing a surprised German linguist of "turning my relatives into lampshades" on live air
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