You'd be better served watching RT news, truly unbiased and glorious like its unfallible motherland.
What do you mean y'all? What group are you putting me in? I am not a Republican. If you can't see the obvious bias in NPR's reporting, the stories they choose to tell and from what angles, etc. then you might be in an information bubble. It's clear as day to me and a lot of others as well.
Who won't be fine, however, are the thousands of radio and public TV stations across the political spectrum for whom CPB funding makes up a substantial portion of their funding.
Every dollar counts for these stations, and seeing our administration decide that public media should die (or, more likely, get swallowed up even more aggressively by Clear Channel/Sinclair) because they're too "woke" is a real shame.
Also, CPB was the sole grantor of the NextGen Warning System program, which is ending once CPB shuts down.
dyauspitr•5mo ago
everdrive•5mo ago
And if they do, what happens in the next 2-4 years if they lose power again? I'm not really weighing in on the specific political issues here, but wondering what we do about extreme pendulum swings every few years as the government changes parties.
dizlexic•5mo ago
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w0de0•5mo ago
The extremity in current politics - and among elected politicians wielding power, such is to be found much more on the right - is in part a function of two trends: the gerrymandering of those districts, and the tendency for states and areas to become more ideologically homogenous. (I’m not sure of the latter’s root cause - perhaps internal migration or new media consumption patterns.)
Both of these trends tend to shift the political competition in those districts, be they states or house districts, towards purity tests over compromise. One wins a primary by being the most extreme; if the primary matters more than the general, extremity increases generally.
If you want to reduce extremity, fight partisan redistricting.
0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_Unite...