They’re just straight up evil.

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[–] 75 points 1 year ago (9 children)

dismantled

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/13/1250902337/npr-cpb-public-radio-funding-101

Today, NPR receives only about 1% of its operating budget directly from the federal government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/business/media/npr-pbs-funding-cuts.html

Will NPR and PBS survive?

Yes. NPR gets about 2 percent of its annual budget directly from federal grants, including from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; for PBS, that amount is about 15 percent.

It'll be a hit for PBS in particular, but it's not gonna end NPR or PBS.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    NPR as a national organization might be fine, but regional stations have smaller operating budgets and also get funding, and their programming gets picked up. Member stations will suffer or fail under this update, and that will feed back to national programming when something like WAMC's On the Media or WBEZ's Wait Wait gets axed.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    and it's going to hurt rural areas the most. some of them could lose up to 50% their revenue overnight, which will almost certainly lead to them shutting down. and then what happens next time there's some disaster that knocks out the internet and there aren't any local radio stations left to inform the people when and where to take shelter?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If anything it might spark fundraising

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Yeah, but that's bullshit and it plays exactly into what these ghouls want: privatization of everything.

    Without even realizing it, they've manufactured your consent to transition to relying entirely on (usually wealthy or corporate) donors.

    Then we just have another propaganda outlet masquerading as news.

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