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You know how a judge is supposed to excuse themselves from casting judgements on something that may be tied to their own interests...
How is it the Presidents family can own a media company and his administration is allowed to make ANY changes to current media policies?
Oh, the media companies who sanewash the Mustard Mussolini will get rid of the public radio competition?
Shocking! Shocked I say!
The thing is, it won't really because NPR and PBS have plenty of outside funding and will continue to put out great podcasts and videos and other online media that they're going to keep competing with. Defunding the corporation for public broadcasting is only going to kill tiny stations in rural markets that commercial broadcasters have generally abandoned already anyway because there aren't enough people there to make for profit media work. The only people this helps are the ones who want to keep rural voters ignorant about what's going on in the country (which, yeah, benefits these media companies in a lot of ways, but it's not quite as simple as just killing their competition).
Those people need NPR. NPR isn't great all the time but it's better than what they're getting on Xitter and FB and Fox
Because ofcourse he is... And half of america is cheering it on...
Nah, more like a quarter on this issue (arc)
Plus, this is going to be extra unpopular with people in rural areas especially, lots of small towns have no news coverage or any kind of media focusing on them besides public stations, so if they go away nobody's going to tell you what's going on at the school board or what the score of the high school football game was or other local stuff like that
Between this and the cuts to Medicaid, people in Trump voting country are getting fucked by this administration, and even they're starting to realize that, which creates an opportunity for taking these fascist pricks down a notch
I don’t even think it’s a quarter. Even though he got a quarter of the votes, how many of them were just voting party? I think it’s more like 15% actual solid MAGA
That article is reporting a survey though, which showed 24% of adults supported removing these broadcasters' funding. The "one quarter" is not about how people voted, it's about this survey. There's are links at the end of the article to more information about the survey and its methodology.
The fact that it's as low as 24 percent is honestly kinda good, about 20-30 percent of any given population will go with basically anything the survey asks means tat the grouping for the cuts is comfortably in the "Statistical dumbass" region. That's with decades of right wing propaganda degrading NPR, PBS, etcetera.
I can get data that says anything I want.
There's been an awful lot of "this isn't what I voted for" since the inauguration.
Yeah. They are so dumb. Honestly, I think the only skill anyone needs these days is root cause analysis.
Anyone else planning to upgrade their donation?