On the road, I turned on NPR. A homosexual podcaster who worked for Obama and Jon Stewart was talking about Richard Simmons. But, that's neither here nor there. At the commercial, the host slipped in that a bill in Congress seeks to defund public broadcasting funding for two years. Said we should all take action.
A couple of things. First, I thought public radio was "commercial free." That's what its branded as every single fund raising gig when they beg for money.
Secondly, the big argument now for public funding is that public radio is the supposed only means of "reliable" news for many. Okay, (a) do they honestly not see their strong bias? (b) am radio is far better to get news out; pretty sure most public radio is fm. I can listen to am stations literally thousands of miles away at times, not tens of miles.
Third, the host said they might lose 9% of their annual budget. Wait, what? I wrote several months ago an article (below) where I mentioned how they are adamant that they only get 1% of their money from the government. Now it's 9%? Seems like when the issue is, "You get too much government money," the answer is "Just 1%." But, when that "1%" is going to be taken away, suddenly it's a whole 9% that will crush their ability to get their word out. In a business, if you lose 9% (or 1%) of your revenue, you work harder to make that back up.
https://stacker.news/items/848456
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