Public Broadcasting (CPB) corporations, including PBS and NPR, are considering receiving $535 million in federal funds in fiscal year 2025 and an additional $60 million in federal funds for the “Interconnection System of Public Media Stations.”
As the Doge Committee considers reducing waste, Elon Musk is targeting public broadcasters and viewing it as wasted federal spending.
Media Research Center (MRC) is leading the price. We are currently launching the “Defund PBS & NPR” campaign.
Tim Graham, executive editor of MRC Newsbusters, calls PBS & NPR “Yellow Journalism.” Graham said the MRC has 20,000 pages of documented bias from PBS/NPR over the past 15 years.
“Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize American media companies. The debate made 60 years ago to justify the creation of federally funded media outlets has become obsolete, just as NPR and PBS made it clear that they are mere mouthpieces of the radical agenda,” Graham said.
Public broadcasters say it’s nothing more than a revenge tour by Republicans. But Graham says half a century ago that consumers had few options on television and radio, but today there are thousands of options.
The partisan bias reflected in NPR and PBS’s “news” coverage is equally totally vulnerable. Their time is over. It’s time to protect taxpayers,” MRC said.
Graham cites several reasons why it’s time to refund public broadcasts.
That’s a duplicate waste of taxpayer money.
It’s not necessary in the ocean of media selection.
Graham says the original basis for “public broadcasts” was lack of programming when most people only received three networks on television. This rationale had already evaporated 30 years ago when House Speaker Newt Ginrich proposed to zero CPB. Even today, PBS and NPR claim to have a mission to support “unrelated and underserved communities and audiences.” Who is “unused” yet?
Today’s viewers seem to have endless outlets for information, from broadcasting to cable to streaming over the internet, but the list gets longer as technology continues to evolve. Beyond the Legacy Outlet, Acorn TV, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Brigbox, Disney Plus, Discovery Plus, Google Play, Hbo Max, Hulu, Netflix, Paramount Plus, Peacock, Philo, Pluto TV, Rumble, Shudder, Sling TV, Tubi, Vudu, Youtube, Tubi, vud, sling, vud, hud, vud, fud, vud, hudu, vudu, youtube, youtu, vud, youtune, youtu, vud, youtube, hud, vud, sling the.
Where will the end of the “public” broadcast and “private” start? I asked Graham.
“Congress must move aggressively to strip CPB of funding and not be non-commercial, educational or educational, so it is not necessary to qualify as a non-profit education station (NCE station),” Graham said.
