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So the government should just not say anything? Let’s just get all our news from X, the famously truthful platform!
Yes the government should just not say anything but this is not dependent on X existing or not existing.
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Musk gave out free Starlinks during Hurricane Helene. Pretty much everyone has a cell phone.
500 Starlinks? https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/elon-musk-sta... As opposed to 95% of US homes that have at least one radio receiver? https://www.insideradio.com/inside-story-radios-in-more-u-s-... Usable digital cell service still doesn’t reach a good chunk of rural Americans. I’m not sure why an expensive, technically-complicated solution would be an alternative to a free, simple, widely-deployed one.
What's the percent of that?
And what's the percent of people that leave their radio on 24/7?
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Musk gave out free Starlinks during Hurricane Helene. Pretty much everyone has a cell phone.
"Musk gave out free Starlinks during Hurricane Helene." Did he? > As it turns out, the offer wasn’t as generous as it seemed, it’s really more of a new customer promotion. > The Register pointed out that if anyone goes to sign up for the “free” service, there’re hit with a harsh reality: you have to pay for the equipment. > But try to sign up for the ostensibly “free” service in an area Starlink has designated as a H…
Oh, the horror! Do you know that to get government services, you also have to file a form and wait for it to be approved?
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A lot of people are unable to see their own political bias; they look at BBC or Fox News and see “unbiased true reporting”. I highly suggest using Ground News (ground.news) for a week or a month as your sole portal into news stories, and then use their features to analyze bias in your selection of news stories and outlets. I use it regularly to try to offset my own biases.
Ground News worries me because now we don't need to use our brains the app just tells me the bias! Ground News could be biased! Leads to shallow discussion where all news sources are tossed out for bias leaving nothing (or what ground news wants you to listen to). God forbid we critically examine for ourselves the information we consume.
I think that the media bias ratings on Ground News are slightly biased and the factuality ratings are highly biased, not intentionally but due to flawed methodology of their sources. I have contacted their support to raise that issue.
I still find the site tries really hard to make you aware of your own predilections, and I think it does well as that, and if you find yourself gravitating towards one set of sources you can always sample the “other side”.
I agree that left-right doesn’t capture the richness of American politics but for better or worse they are convenient labels for our two party system.
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I don't think this is correct. The majority of people prefers states to have more influence on school curriculum and federal government to have less. Yes, there are downsides to that, but it generally means that hours on STEM will increase and hours on ideology will decrease. Removing federal influence in setting agenda while sending federal funding directly to states without federal oversight of programs would not b…
Banning books and forcing bibles in schools. Right.
My kids high school recently cancelled advanced math classes because the racial composition of students there was not what the school hoped to see. No, thank you, I want parents to have a much bigger influence on what schools teach.
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We are now in a timeline where dramatic concerns are legitimate. I would love to be proven wrong on this, but there's plenty of clues to show that I'm not.
Next up in the timeline - when a bad jobs report lands, the person reporting the unwanted data gets fired [0]. Undoubtedly a toadie will be put in their place who will report numbers that make fearless leader look better. We are now well on our way to George Orwell's 1984 dystopia. [0] https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/business/trump-job-report-num...
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>Contrary to the conservative spin over the years, I have found public broadcasting to be one of the least biased sources Can we break this down? You open with a effectively derogatory accusation about conservatives making things up…which I have no opinion on. That immediately shows your own likely liberal bias and then you say you saw no problem with the programming. Isn’t that exactly the issue? That you saw no iss…
Your argument is just assuming the (1) previous poster has liberal bias, (2) CPB has liberal bias, (3) previous poster is unable to recognize their own or CPB’s liberal bias. Maybe these are true, but I don’t see the basis for it here.
And this is a liberal site; regardless of how the “intellectuals” like to talk about ACKSHUALLY it’s bla which ends up being San Francisco liberal with more steps.
I consider my estimation to be two points of evidence. Along with the user’s post history of course.
This is a giant thread full of people lamenting the demise of public broadcasting so it seems like someone should write the comment that points out that CPB doesn't do PBS programming. They don't develop content. They're a grantmaking organization that manages the distribution of the congressional PBS appropriation. The actual PBS and NPR shows you're familiar with are generally developed and produced privately, and…
killing this means cutting of swathes of simple, orderly funding. what remains is donations etc, which is far less regular, and requires work to get, and is also easily attackable by presidential fiat.
we already know there's a bunch of actual lunatics in charge of the federal government, with a very wide variety of very stupid hobby horses. they get to ride them now and then, so how about some guesses at future trips:
- IRS starts going after big non-profit donors to public broadcasters, claiming they're in breach of some somewhat arbitrary and subjective rule that's been poorly enforced in the past, I don't know foundation disbursement rate or something, but also nudge nudge wink wink, if you stopped giving to PBS, maybe we'd forget about it
- FEC "clarifies" that promoting non-traditional-sexuality or whatever is political and thus it's illegal for non-profits to fund it, which of course would be an extremely funny turn given how the Right Wing Lunatics Association of America actually couped the country. this could of course be enforced entirely randomly - go after the NPR stations that are loud and annoying, go after the individual donors to them that the regime wants to make an example of.
- Congress passes some law that "clarifies" the purpose of non-profit status or something, to exclude anti-American speech, which is of course a clear abridgment of the 1st amendment, but of course that's fine in 2025 if it targets notional enemies of the regime.
killing this corporation just grants more power to the extremely partisan executive branch and extremely corrupted government and turns ever more of the functioning of the United States in to just expressions of the whims of the supreme leader and his favoured courtiers.
the current deliberate structural destruction of the united states seems underappreciated - every one of these moves turns the country in to more of a Whimocracy and destroys the bedrock of society that let it weather past terrible administrations.
Nixon was a historically horrible president, but the Washington Post fucking took him down. now almost all the big media is owned by Rich Cunts who make a public show of displaying subservience to the Dear Leader.
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Banning books and forcing bibles in schools. Right.
No, teaching what the local parents believe is best for their own kids. While there are certainly a few of those who will want bibles, most in my experience put much higher value in the extra STEM unhindered by ideology. My kids high school recently cancelled advanced math classes because the racial composition of students there was not what the school hoped to see. No, thank you, I want parents to have a much bigger…