NPR & PBS going bye bye

[shadrap 234]

Good riddance.  Another totally biased, propaganda Democrat media machine paid for by all us.  Win for America. I have no problem with them if they can subsidize themselves with their fine programming.  Obviously, they cannot.  Adios

[seafoam1 3,087]

Get rid of that crap. No one listens to it anyway except for braindead libtards. 

[Sandy Loam 154]

I'm sure they feel the same way about you.

[Sandy Loam 154]

Talk about a misleading thread headline.

PBS and NPR are not shutting down. An agency that funds them is shutting down.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/cpb-funder-npr-pbs-says-will-shut-congress-cuts-money-rcna222524

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Despite the cuts to the CPB, some of the most revered national PBS and NPR programs are expected to remain on the air thanks to other sources of funding.

Ha ha.

[seafoam1 3,087]

2 minutes ago, Sandy Loam said:

Talk about a misleading thread headline.

PBS and NPR are not shutting down. An agency that funds them is shutting down.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/cpb-funder-npr-pbs-says-will-shut-congress-cuts-money-rcna222524

Ha ha.

Poor rusty is tearing up. 

[Sandy Loam 154]

PNN has chimed in.

Peefoam News Network, where moon landings just took place.

 

[jerryskids 6,841]

I have very fond memories of my youth regarding PBS.  Sesame Street, Mr Roger's, Electric Company, Zoom... then watching Star Trek reruns late Saturday nights as a teen. 

I hope they can find a way to be relevant and not too woke moving forward.

 

[seafoam1 3,087]

13 minutes ago, Sandy Loam said:

PNN has chimed in.

Peefoam News Network, where moon landings just took place.

 

Poor rusty. Now back to your NPR old lady green hair. 

[thegeneral 3,265]

NOVA, Cosmos, Electric Company, Sesame Street, Mr. Roger’s…great stuff.

 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,460]

37 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

I have very fond memories of my youth regarding PBS.  Sesame Street, Mr Roger's, Electric Company, Zoom... then watching Star Trek reruns late Saturday nights as a teen. 

I hope they can find a way to be relevant and not too woke moving forward.

 

 Me also. We only had four channels as most of us know.I do enjoy NOVA, Frontline, symphonies, and local stories of current and historical events. Great content all around minus political news, pundits, and the media slant.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,515]

Who will liberals pretend they watch and listen to now? 

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,145]

5 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Who will liberals pretend they watch and listen to now? 

They've always got Stephen Colbert

[Hardcore troubadour 15,515]

1 minute ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

They've always got Stephen Colbert

lol. Yeah, they don’t watch him either. 

[Gepetto 1,374]

When our grandmas and great aunts died there was no one left to purchase Anne of Green Gables to keep PBS alive.

[thegeneral 3,265]

26 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Who will liberals pretend they watch and listen to now? 

When I posted an NPR article as a link in here you dimwits had a conniption fit  

[Sandy Loam 154]

1 hour ago, thegeneral said:

When I posted an NPR article as a link in here you dimwits had a conniption fit  

MAGAs don't like centrists and political moderates. It's left of themselves, even if it's by a millimeter, so therefore unacceptable and deserving of their ignorant wrath, unacceptance and scorn, because anything that could cause pecker-paradigm shrinkage is a threat best met with moronic and staunch opposition.

[Gepetto 1,374]

2 minutes ago, Sandy Loam said:

MAGAs don't like centrists and political moderates. It's left of themselves, even if it's by a millimeter, so therefore unacceptable and deserving of their ignorant wrath, unacceptance and scorn, because anything that could cause pecker-paradigm shrinkage is a threat best met with moronic and staunch opposition.

True Centrists side with the right; that's why Trump was elected President again.

[Sandy Loam 154]

Just now, Gepetto said:

True Centrists side with the right; that's why Trump was elected President again.

Also, centrists and president would not warrant capitalization here, but I give you extra points for proper semicolon usage!

[shadrap 234]

6 hours ago, Sandy Loam said:

MAGAs don't like centrists and political moderates. It's left of themselves, even if it's by a millimeter, so therefore unacceptable and deserving of their ignorant wrath, unacceptance and scorn, because anything that could cause pecker-paradigm shrinkage is a threat best met with moronic and staunch opposition.

"Centrists"?  NPR has 87 members on its editorial staff.  87 of them are registered democrats.  Centrists?

[Voltaire 5,322]

9 minutes ago, shadrap said:

"Centrists"?  NPR has 87 members on its editorial staff.  87 of them are registered democrats.  Centrists?

This.

PBS and NPR use to have quality broadcasting which generated bipartisan support but they are unlistenable now that they have let themselves get carried away by the far left.

[Maximum Overkill 2,022]

NEWSFLASH: It's 2025, nobody cares about NPR or PBS. @Sandy Loam

[Nomad99 754]

1 hour ago, Voltaire said:

This.

PBS and NPR use to have quality broadcasting which generated bipartisan support but they are unlistenable now that they have let themselves get carried away by the far left.

This

[Maximum Overkill 2,022]

Do you watch PBS on your 13" black and white TV with the antennas? 

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,145]

Frankly, this was LONG overdue by about 20 years.  Think of how much money the taxpayers could have saved.  It's mind-boggling.

If lefties want to promote their hate and intolerance of those that don't bend the knee to their dogma, they should do it on their own dime.  That's not what taxpayer money should be funding.  I mean, they already have the MSM, Hollywood and the Music industry.  NPR and PBS are wholly unecessary.

[Voltaire 5,322]

21 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Frankly, this was LONG overdue by about 20 years.  Think of how much money the taxpayers could have saved.  It's mind-boggling.

If lefties want to promote their hate and intolerance of those that don't bend the knee to their dogma, they should do it on their own dime.  That's not what taxpayer money should be funding.  I mean, they already have the MSM, Hollywood and the Music industry.  NPR and PBS are wholly unecessary.

Yes but also add academia and Big Tech to the list.

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,145]

11 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Yes but also add academia and Big Tech to the list.

Agreed.  And, frankly, I blame the right for this for sitting on their laurels while the Marxists and Communists infiltrated those institutions. 

[Voltaire 5,322]

5 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Agreed.  And, frankly, I blame the right for this for sitting on their laurels while the Marxists and Communists infiltrated those institutions. 

There were Marxists around when I ws in school but they were mostly marginalized sideshow that set up a table in the student area and that was about it. They had next to no institutional power. The liberals allowed anybody in to teach, including the Marxists. Then, once the Marxists got their foot in the door and over time rose to positions of authority, they pretty much only ever hired fellow Marxists.

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,145]

3 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

There were Marxists around when I ws in school but they were mostly marginalized sideshow that set up a table in the student area and that was about it. They had next to no institutional power. The liberals allowed anybody in to teach, including the Marxists. Then, once the Marxists got their foot in the door and over time rose to positions of authority, they pretty much only ever hired fellow Marxists.

Yep.  The USA is going to collapse and die from within unless the right can start weeding out these anti-American zealots.  Trump has started the ball on this but the next 3 POTUSes have to be a Conservative as it's going to take YEARS to eject these far-left nut jobs.  And not fake or soft conservatives either.

[Sandy Loam 154]

4 hours ago, Maximum Overkill said:

NEWSFLASH: It's 2025, nobody cares about NPR or PBS. @Sandy Loam

So why does this thread exist?

[jerryskids 6,841]

13 hours ago, Sandy Loam said:

MAGAs don't like centrists and political moderates. It's left of themselves, even if it's by a millimeter, so therefore unacceptable and deserving of their ignorant wrath, unacceptance and scorn, because anything that could cause pecker-paradigm shrinkage is a threat best met with moronic and staunch opposition.

 

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/npr-media-bias

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/npr/

 

[kilroy69 1,252]

On 8/1/2025 at 5:40 PM, Sandy Loam said:

Talk about a misleading thread headline.

PBS and NPR are not shutting down. An agency that funds them is shutting down.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/cpb-funder-npr-pbs-says-will-shut-congress-cuts-money-rcna222524

Ha ha.

NPR brought this on themselves. The hilarious thing is that they STILL will not admit they were partisan. EVEN NOW. They INSIST that they are defending democracy and journalism. They used to lie and tell everyone they could they only get 1 percent of their funding from the public. It would be super easy to get 1 percent from your listeners. It was never 1 percent though. It was always something closer to 25 to 30 percent. Now that they are going to have to stand on their own they will slowly go bankrupt. 

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,145]

12 minutes ago, kilroy69 said:

NPR brought this on themselves. The hilarious thing is that they STILL will not admit they were partisan. EVEN NOW. They INSIST that they are defending democracy and journalism. They used to lie and tell everyone they could they only get 1 percent of their funding from the public. It would be super easy to get 1 percent from your listeners. It was never 1 percent though. It was always something closer to 25 to 30 percent. Now that they are going to have to stand on their own they will slowly go bankrupt. 

Yeah, the insistence that they were never partisan is absolute hogwash.  They clearly are lying, of course, like almost all leftists do.  It's all about propaganda, revisionist history and lies.

[Sandy Loam 154]

1 hour ago, kilroy69 said:

NPR brought this on themselves. The hilarious thing is that they STILL will not admit they were partisan. EVEN NOW. They INSIST that they are defending democracy and journalism. They used to lie and tell everyone they could they only get 1 percent of their funding from the public. It would be super easy to get 1 percent from your listeners. It was never 1 percent though. It was always something closer to 25 to 30 percent. Now that they are going to have to stand on their own they will slowly go bankrupt. 

My point being that the thread title was inaccurate.

NPR and PBS will be fine.

I don't watch or listen to either one of them and am fine with them having to fund themselves.

[supermike80 1,931]

I like antiques roadshow.  Bout it for PBS

[Maximum Overkill 2,022]

20 hours ago, Sandy Loam said:

So why does this thread exist?

So we can goof on you, again! 

[Sandy Loam 154]

2 hours ago, Maximum Overkill said:

So we can goof on you, again! 

You're doing a bad job of that, seeing I cack slap you around at every turn.

[Maximum Overkill 2,022]

50 minutes ago, Sandy Loam said:

I cack slap you

As a Pedocrat you'd probably love that  

[Sandy Loam 154]

8 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

As a Pedocrat you'd probably love that  

See, you're right there in the rock-bottom Peefoam tier when it comes to humor and originality.

You've got one card in your response Rolodex, and it hasn't aged well.

 

[kilroy69 1,252]

12 hours ago, Sandy Loam said:

My point being that the thread title was inaccurate.

NPR and PBS will be fine.

I don't watch or listen to either one of them and am fine with them having to fund themselves.

They absolutely will not be fine.  The funding they stand to lose propped them up far more than they let on.  By the end of the Trump admin I would guess NPR will either file or do mass layoffs that leave it a shell of its former self.  The entire time they will never admit to being partisan and will wonder why this is happening to them. 

[Sandy Loam 154]

3 minutes ago, kilroy69 said:

They absolutely will not be fine.  The funding they stand to lose propped them up far more than they let on.  By the end of the Trump admin I would guess NPR will either file or do mass layoffs that leave it a shell of its former self.  The entire time they will never admit to being partisan and will wonder why this is happening to them. 

It's left-leaning, no doubt. Always has been. Only time will tell if it survives.