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[–] 82 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not enough money for big bird. But money to spare for a fascist private jet. Tragic

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Man they are STEALING our AIRWAVES

    WE PAID FOR THIS. WE DID, NOT TRUMP. The CPB did more for rural Americans than nearly anything i can think of.

    And the GOP murdered it for votes. Sacrificed Sesame Street on the altar.

    I motion that in the absence of the Congressionally-created CPB, all airwaves are public, fuck the FCC. Let's go Pirate Radio.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    There’s gonna be an empty band in the airwaves where PBS used to be.

    IPTV stream of Ms Rachel, interspersed with leftist messages every 20-30mins, image macro saying how easy it is to set up a transmitter for your community, post it on social media everywhere…

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No there won't. They'll auction those bandd off to the highest qualified bidder. Qualified meaning president-approved propaganda outlets only. So as you say, nothing of value would be lost if someone were to transmit over them.

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

    I know exactly 0 people who are still watching over-the-air TV.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    The CPB did more for rural Americans than nearly anything i can think of.

    And they voted HEAVILY for this.

    I had to deal with right wingers all throughout Kansas whining that NPR did nothing for them and was coastal elites while their local stations were doing Harvest Public Media specifically to deal with news on the agriculture locally while Faux News couldn't give two shits about Kansas.

    I'm not happy about it, but there's going to be a lot of "We didn't vote for this" which I'll happily tell them yes, yes they did.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    Not surprising, they've been wanting to do this for decades.

    https://youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Problem with leading with the fact that NPR only gets a small portion of it’s budget from the CPP, is that it ignores that the locally funded affiliates pay for NPRs content. And a lot of those smaller affiliates are now going away.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Fucking ending the article with a Trump shit spewing quote. Just to really leave an even extra awful taste after reading about this.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What a shame.

    Welp back to the Joe Rogan Experience! slowly puts on nazi armband /s

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Wow Trump probably killed Elmo and Big Bird. What a fucking monster.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    well... this is going to cause a chilling effect. :/

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    This is just sad

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