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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

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Post by dizlexic »

heavyset_go wrote: post #494
WalterBright wrote: post #482

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> Local stations provide local disaster alert systems These days sending alerts via texting them to phones should be far more effective.

Not reliable, as cell sites can go down in disasters, while the giant secured antennae that broadcast PBS and NPR aren't going anywhere.

I have NEVER tuned into PBS for weather and disaster alerts. Growing up in rural America I've seen this headline multiple times, but I'm 99% sure in my community PBS doesn't actually do any weather coverage during tornadoes or similar. You MIGHT get a required alert tone and a banner, but no radar or anything of real value.

Our local news stations do an amazing job and they don't ask me to donate.

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Post by dizlexic »

esseph wrote: post #332
atonse wrote: post #100

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I agree overall that this is not a good thing for also furthering a knowledge gap between rural and urban areas. But in the age of internet streaming, wouldn't rural areas still have access to stream public radio? Genuinely asking. I tried looking for sources on station audience sizes, alternatives they might have, etc. But it was difficult to find.

Public radio and local broadcasting has been gobbled up by right-wing sources, including Sinclair Watch this clip: https://youtu.be/xwA4k0E51Oo?feature=shared

As a long time listener of AM radio. Literally nothing has changed from a programming perspective. The only noticeable difference is who supplies the on the hour news.

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specialist wrote: post #431
TimorousBestie wrote: post #231

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Here’s Fox reporting on NPR’s bias: https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-head-asks-critics-show-me-... As you can see, it’s mostly gotcha quotes and unfair glosses. For example: > NPR also called America’s interstate highways racist. I did not know our highways were racist. I thought they were concrete, but not according to NPR. Of course, it’s a historical fact that many minority neighborhoods were bulldozed to make ro…

Have you read Robert Caro's The Power Broker? It's a biography of Robert Moses.

Robert Moses did not build the USA highway system.

Robert Moses was racist.

What was done to some communities was messed up.

The highway system isn't racist.

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Post by dizlexic »

nabwodahs wrote: post #378
9x39 wrote: post #359

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It's verbal sleight of hand in the cultural tug-of-war to emphasize or de-emphasize the future human. The point is that massaged language blunts or sharpens its impact, and an org's political choices therein reflect the bias. Meteorites don't have that baggage.

It's a style guide; not "verbal sleight-of-hand." It codifies what terms should be used by their reporters, and refers to the AP style guide.

so you're saying if they said babies in their style guide it wouldn't have any impact on perception?

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Post by dizlexic »

nabwodahs wrote: post #455
smithkl42 wrote: post #427

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Undoubtedly that's the reason for the under-representation of women as Fortune 500 CEO's. They're just not applying.

Would applying be a personal and professional liability for women, the way doing so at NPR could very well be for a "Republican?" How many "Republicans" apply for jobs in gay bars? Nice false-equivalency attempt.

You're not making an actual argument.

You understand there are many gay republicans right?

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Post by WalterBright »

heavyset_go wrote: post #494
WalterBright wrote: post #482

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> Local stations provide local disaster alert systems These days sending alerts via texting them to phones should be far more effective.

Not reliable, as cell sites can go down in disasters, while the giant secured antennae that broadcast PBS and NPR aren't going anywhere.

Wasn't service supplied during the Helene hurricane with Starlink?

When I was a kid in Kansas in the 1960s, the tornado warnings were done with a siren. And yes, we got hit by a tornado, but were safe because we heeded the siren.

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Post by saagarjha »

munchler wrote: post #205
bix6 wrote: post #145

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I guess we should just support the post office with donations while we’re at it. That’ll work well!

I suspect the post office is still supported by a durable majority. If it isn’t, then it will probably lose government funding as well.

A durable majority doesn't even support funding education, and it is losing federal funding as we speak. Do you think this is a good thing?

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Post by saagarjha »

tayloramurphy wrote: post #112
infamia wrote: post #93

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Can we call it public broadcasting when it fails to even dimly reflect the diversity of ideas for the areas it serves? Milk toast conservatives like Juan Williams were deemed intolerable a long time ago, so calling it public radio at this point is a misnomer and a sad farce.

I think you mean "milquetoast". The wikipedia link led me to "milk toast", which is interesting in itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Milquetoast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_toast

TIL the etymology for the word

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Post by dizlexic »

anigbrowl wrote: post #500
ljsprague wrote: post #372

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Why must everything be viewed as Democrat vs. Republican? Trump is best viewed as a case of outsider vs. entrenched bureaucracy / deep state. Party is irrelevant.

Because he is being backed to the hilt by the Congressional GOP, and most of the GOP-leaning states, a fact which I feel sure has not escaped your attention until now.

I'm guessing you only started to pay attention to the right in 2014.

Everything really changed with the bailouts then the tea party movement. The republicans went from big business, lower taxes, exclusively to populism.

The dems are going through a similar bend currently and probably would have happened sooner if they hadn't undermined their voters nomination of Bernie in 2015.

The republicans (love um or hate them) didn't change the rules to scuttle Trump. One party is listening to their base the other is trying to control them (and imo is imploding because of it). I'm honestly a bit of a neo con so there isn't a place for me in a populist republican party. I'll just keep throwing votes at Chase Oliver / similar outsiders until we have a return to sanity.

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Post by saagarjha »

munchler wrote: post #334
asadotzler wrote: post #310

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Take a tax supported public good, remove the public support and then claim to worry about corporate influence? What do you think was holding that corporate influence at bay?

Unfortunately, the necessary level of public support doesn't exist, so relying on government money isn't viable. I hope public broadcasting will get enough money directly from individuals to resist excessive corporate influence, but we'll have to see.

Who do you think the individuals donating will be?
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