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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

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Post by EasyMark »

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…

Not paying for them with public money is neutral with me; however yet again, this is illegal, only Congress can change funding for these organizations and yet Congress lets another act of tyranny go through unanswered and democracy ends not with a bang and not even with a whimper...

Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

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Post by EasyMark »

mlyons1340 wrote: post #445
brnt wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.”

This is a really dumb quote.

I never found it so, as going through "liberal" media I tend to see far fewer lies than I do when I wonder over to the world of mainstream conservative news.

Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

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Post by EasyMark »

JSR_FDED wrote: post #8

When I first moved to the US (Bay Area) and discovered NPR in my first week there I almost couldn’t believe that there was such a source of high quality and thoughtful programming. The value destruction of the last few months has been astonishing.

NPR will be fine without public funding. They will have to tighten their belt of course and can always use a donation, but they'll be okay. This is all an issue because they won't straight lie about Trump to the public like fox news does on a regular basis

Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

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Post by int_19h »

sidewndr46 wrote: post #270
sorcerer-mar wrote: post #225

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SCOTUS (and other courts) can deputize whoever they want pretty much. And this is what the states' National Guards are for (very scary thought)

The "states" national guard can be federalized at a moment's notice. The president need only give the order and put his signature on it. At that point, they report to the President and no one else. This isn't theory, Alabama's was federalized some time when my dad was a kid. The president never rescinded the order.

In addition to the National Guard, there's also the State Guard (or State Defense Force in some states), which cannot be federalized.

Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

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Post by EasyMark »

whodidntante wrote: post #104

I watch/listen to a variety of news sources - CNN, Fox News, NPR, NYTimes, WSj, as well as a number of smaller podcasts and substacks. There are no longer "unbiased" news sources, all sources have moved to either the left or right. I used to have respect for NPR, today it is, to me, the Fox News of the left, and no different than other sources. I do not have a problem with that, it is what it is. But it should not be…

The lie to truth ratio of Fox News is far, far higher than NPR on any news show I've listened to on either.

Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

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Post by int_19h »

orwin wrote: post #384
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #173

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> My reading of history leads me to believe quite the opposite. Hey, if we wanted to go back to real old-fashioned (pre-columbian) American values, then we could have human sacrifice, multi-god-animistic-religion, slavery (the Europeans weren't the only ones to do that), etc.

Just a point, Europeans were the only ones to do _chaptel slavery_, i.e treating fellow humans (even if they are currently slave) as object they own and have every right over them. Other form of slavery were either topologically or chronologically limited. This wasn't the case for European chaptel slavery: your sons and daughter were also property, and changing localtion did not indure you to another lord, but gave h…

This is factually incorrect.

Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

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Post by int_19h »

Aloisius wrote: post #521
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…

The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.

Yeah, that's what they said during Trump's first term. And after January, 6.

They do until they don't.

Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

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Post by int_19h »

throwawaymaths wrote: post #174
ziddoap wrote: post #165

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Notably, those rulings have been ignored so far.

no doubt that is a problem.

It's the problem.

It doesn't matter what the courts say if the executive can disregard that. But this is exactly what they are trying to achieve with this whole "unitary executive" BS, and willing abettance from Republicans in Congress.

Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

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Post by EasyMark »

whodidntante wrote: post #482
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…

I will give you that, sometimes fox news is like a ChatGPT hallucination. And the ads are unbearable - my pillow and vegetable pills. This is more than made for by the interviews - Trump, Vance, Harris, Zelensky, the doge team, etc. Speaking of unbearable, NPR's "soft stories" are invariably about someone's sob story. Ok, I get it, there are a lot of hard luck stories out there, but they seem to relish in misery. All…

The thing is NPR still tells the truth, Fox will lie non stop for an entire talk show especially their "group" shows. Watch any of those that have regulars vs say a morning show on CBS or ABC. They have more fluff pieces but those shows don't lie nonstop and stroke Trump's ego the whole time.

Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

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Post by int_19h »

jimbokun wrote: post #279
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.

That's just dumb. Authoritarian governments and terrorist organizations are not the same thing.

Sometimes they are. E.g. Hamas is both the authoritarian government of Gaza and the terrorist organization.
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