FCC Probe Into NPR, PBS Denounced as 'Attack on the Freedom of the Press'.
"The FCC chair is clearly undertaking an effort to bully and intimidate independent journalism, which is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes where democracy is under siege," said one critic.
Trump is destruction and retribution.
That’s all he’s been doing.
He also sells off all the broken peices of our society to his rich owners.
I’m usually not big on hate and it seems like a lot of wasted effort. And I can generally understand where people are coming from even if I don’t agree with them.
But not this guy. I fucking hate him. I have never hated a person more in my entire life. He is the most useless piece of the most vile excrement and I will relish the day he is “shuffled off his mortal coil”.
Him and Elon need to go. Yesterday.
Honestly Elon scares me a little more. He’s not a complete moron (don’t get me wrong he’s close) and can easily manipulate the other dude.
In my opinion, I’m not sure this country will last 4 years of this. I had forgotten the daily rage I felt in his first term and this seems worse. And we are less than three months in. And god forbid RFK is confirmed and we have another pandemic. It will not end well.
Considering how quickly NPR prostrated themselves to Trump as soon as the FCC inquiry started I'd say the press isn't all that free.
What did they do specifically? I’m trying to figure out how much longer i can still consider npr a reliable source.
This is the slowest fucking death I could have ever imagined enduring
I can't wait for all of the republicans at work to be told what to think. I'll enjoy hearing how they try to sell me on PBS being biased.
It has educational programs?
Sad day for everyone.
When is someone going to go full Designated Survivor on Trump and his dipshit cronies?
"I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials," Carr wrote. "I have asked the FCC's Enforcement Bureau, with assistance from the FCC's Media Bureau, to initiate an investigation into the underwriting announcements and related policies of NPR, PBS, and their broadcast member stations."
Such an investigation is long overdue. My local NPR station broadcasts nothing but commercials.
Is this sarcasm? Sponsorships are not the same as ads.
It's got to be. Listening to NPR has spoiled me to the point where I can't listen to regular music stations anymore because of the commercials.
Not sure what practical difference there is between a sponsorship and an ad. Anytime I try to listen to my local public radio, each and every segment starts off with "this report brought to you by .....blah blah blah...."
I listen to NPR all the time and I have never once heard a commercial.
sadly, nothing new-- the last administration was directly funding and covering for israel's extermination campaign- well over 200 journalists killed in the last year.. but yes, this is more of the same in a more domestic and less murderous sense.
Folks? This is the imperial boomerang. What we do overseas comes home!
Israel is the laboratory. What they test there will come back to us eventually. Do not be shocked when Trump drone strikes a "migrant caravan" or something.
well, yeah .... and we all told you this was going to happen while the major print and broadcast media "both sidesed" trump and republicans for the last 8 years
wait a second, were these the same "pro palestinian" "protesters" calling the incumbent democratic president "genocide joe" and telling people they weren't going to vote for him, while marching in every american city and taking over college commons across the country during the spring and summer of an election year, chanting "from the river to the sea"? democratic youth vote was the lowest on record this last election, while the republican youth vote was the highest, more arab and latino americans voted for donald trump in the last election than have ever voted for any republican candidate before in us history.
donald trump won his second term by 2.3% of the vote
congratulations, not only did you make jews terrified, eschewing 100 years of bedrock jewish support of the democratic party, you ensured the return of someone without an inkling of concern for your issues
and we told you this was going to happen while they were doing it, the stupidest shit i've ever seen in my life
So it's the media's fault for normalizing fascism, and the fault of the people who pointed out that there was only one other option, but not the fault of the people who made the choice not to support that option?
Fucking hell dude, that's some hard spin to avoid any responsibility for choosing to enable this.