Lord Frieza
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The White House is Building a Budget: PBS, the NEA, & the NDC Ain't In It
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Whats going to happen to Frontline?
The Albatross
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Man it's been a rough 24 hours for the Swedish cook
Mr.Shrugglesã
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Democrats are gonna let the repubs go balls deep with their budget because they need money in their states after all.
But where are we going to put all the young men if we don't have a big military? Its not like there are jobs available.
It helps small businesses sell goods overseas.
Its bad that npr and pbs will loss funding but their funding from the government is a pittance now anyways. If anything this will free npr from government interference and threats of loss of funding. It might eliminate some poorer rural areas from coverage but it might not. The more educated rural population has access to satellite radio and the internet and the poorer white rural class is a lost cause anyways. My main concern is rural minorities being able to get access to legitimate local radio news. Npr itself gets no govt. Funding. Each of the local affiliate stations are what get one funding which usually accounts for 10 percent of their total funding. Of their total budget they pay 30% to 40% to npr itself to carry national programming like prairy home companion and on the media, etc. So that is how the main programming npr gets some of its operating costs indirectly from the govt. It still amounts to less than 10%.
For example, Ohio has almost 30 local affiliate npr stations each producing local content in addition to broadcasting national content. Npr can cut costs while still covering the entire state by consolidating some of those regional affiliates into single stations and eliminate the local stations in low population areas but keep the radio frequencies. This is where I think local news radio will suffer but all the important national programming will survive. I think local news will be fine too but it will be more affiliated with larger cities like ABC, NBC and CBS regional stations are.
Its a mixed bag but republicans have been after the cpb for a long time and have largely removed most of its govt funding already that npr should survive without it and republicans will be sad to see that it won't disappear.
For example, Ohio has almost 30 local affiliate npr stations each producing local content in addition to broadcasting national content. Npr can cut costs while still covering the entire state by consolidating some of those regional affiliates into single stations and eliminate the local stations in low population areas but keep the radio frequencies. This is where I think local news radio will suffer but all the important national programming will survive. I think local news will be fine too but it will be more affiliated with larger cities like ABC, NBC and CBS regional stations are.
Its a mixed bag but republicans have been after the cpb for a long time and have largely removed most of its govt funding already that npr should survive without it and republicans will be sad to see that it won't disappear.
manzoman96
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Dang. I think a lot of us grew up watching our local PBS stations. Can always look to it for some positivity or something really interesting like the travel shows.
Every other country in the world has an export import bank. This is probably the most ridiculous of the eliminated programs if you want to promote American goods for export as the orange menace so openly says he wants to do. You want to know why European manufacturing stays competitive and yet have better benifits and pay over American manufacturing jobs? They have a strong export import bank. Hell, general electric moved their turbine manufacturing to France after the us bank lost its charter in 2015 so it could no longer get financing for places like Indonesia to buy their turbines manufactured in America.
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Mr. Rogers was really a wonderful and selfless guy. I can't even imagine growing up without Mr. Rogers.
demosthenes
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Invading Muslim countries.
DontBeThatGuy
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PBS is a national treasure, one of the few channels I still bother to watch. Republicans are trash.
I'm 33 and I adore PBS. I rediscovered it about 5 years back and it is my most watched channel.
Fuck them for trying to defund PBS. As far as I'm concerned, it's a national treasure.
Knuckle Sandwich
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PBS is the best. Their 24/7 channel just for toons and stuff has come in handy with my kid having the flu and being unable to sleep. Fuck you, GOP.
The Dutch Slayer
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Was the nerdwriter video on this already posted?
If not everyone should see this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wUePyAqPuk&spfreload=10
If not everyone should see this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wUePyAqPuk&spfreload=10
Diprosalic
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The US military is extremely weak, i'm glad he's going to strengthen it. That was my main issue with the US. Everything else seems fine to me. Yup that will solve it all.
Great video.
But one egg = 46 cents? The hell kind of fancy-ass eggs is he buying?
The Dutch Slayer
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Supermarket prices in the US vary a lot and sometimes specially in a bigger city can be super expensive.
Here in the EU you buy 10 even large eggs for like 2,10 euro
More_Badass
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What can we do to help? Does calling still matter?
dskillzhtown
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I really don't see the point. All these programs that are on the chopping block don't amount to a hill of beans in the grand scheme of things.
Gotta ramp up when we go to war with Iran and take the oil!
Because just cutting programs makes him seem fiscally conservative; bonus points if the the things being cut are favorites of liberals. It doesn't really matter what the actual amount of money being "saved" is.
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