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We must fight to save PBS and NPR.
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@georgetakei it is a good thing that he does not have authority. It should just be ignored.
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@georgetakei
I really hope you can, but we just went through the same threat here in Canada, from essentially the same source. Our Conservative Party of Canada has modeled itself after your Republican Party, and has also been launching attacks against our national public broadcaster (CBC) for the same reason that Trump hates PBS and NPR.
There was only one clear way to save the CBC though, and that was to vote against the Conservative Party to keep them from forming government Federally, which is what we did on our Federal election day on April 28th.
That's why I worry deeply for PBS, NPR, for all Americans, and for all the parts of the world who were relying on these "free world" broadcasters to counter dictatorship misinformation. Because your ship has sailed, since last November.
I do hope and expect that there is more you can do, but the only clear-cut answer has already passed. :(
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@georgetakei The question is, did Congress mandate in the budget operation that these should be funded? Because if Congress mandated that, it's a matter of law and the president can't change that. If they did not, then he can change it, but Congress should absolutely act to ensure proper funding for NPR and PBS. That funding was originally created by the demand from the people of the United States and they still support those. Overwhelmingly! It is the first place many of us watched Doctor Who and Muppets. Mr. Rogers and Nova and Cosmos. It is the first place I encountered Jonathan Colton's work on the radio. ( For those who don't know, one of the most prolific and powerful, independent songwriters in the world.) I brought it into my classrooms for my students and it helped educate my children. Independent of politics, I am outraged that anyone would want to defund PBS and NPR. I want him to keep his greedy, tiny, little hands off!
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@georgetakei as Hitler when took power: destroy not only democracy but the whole state, media, opposition, and targeted ethnicity to bring hell in over a continent.
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@georgetakei: Must we, though? I agree, they have done amazing work in the past, but we're in a new media landscape that may be able to privately support what they do these days.
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@georgetakei Mr. Rogers said it all, almost 50 years ago: https://youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA?si=wwELYTS0Cwl4-DZm
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