Studies link public broadcasting to higher voter turnout, better factual knowledge and lower susceptibility to extremist rhetoric. Those contributions to democracy may be diminished by Congress’ cuts.
I love PBS and I used to live NPR until they spent all of 2024 sane-washing Trump and endlessly bashing Biden. When Trump was on stage all but announcing his plans to become a Dictator, NPR was running a week long segment on how old and frail Biden was.
NPR markets themselves as unbiased public media, but take off the mask (and follow the money) and you’ll quickly learn that its a news org for Neoliberal business leaders and noone else.
Trump is old and frail too! You’d think that a respectable news org like NPR would have spent even a little time covering the credible threats to democracy (and their own funding), and challenging the insane claims from orange man. But no, they had to go on and on and on about how Biden specifically was old and gave tons of credence and and credibility to Trump.
As far as I’m concerned, NPR bent over backwards to legitimize a madman who publicly declared his intent to destroy them multiple times.
I don’t really agree with this. NPR did talk about the threat to democracy. The problem was it was old news at that point, and frankly, it doesn’t seem like most Americans cared that much. So this coverage didn’t get much attention.
The reality is that most Americans care more about their personal finances than the state of the country as a whole. This is the cause of many of our problems. I’m not sure NPR was going to be able to fix this issue through their coverage.
I love PBS and I used to live NPR until they spent all of 2024 sane-washing Trump and endlessly bashing Biden. When Trump was on stage all but announcing his plans to become a Dictator, NPR was running a week long segment on how old and frail Biden was.
NPR markets themselves as unbiased public media, but take off the mask (and follow the money) and you’ll quickly learn that its a news org for Neoliberal business leaders and noone else.
He was old and frail though. And the American public needed to know this.
If people had realized this sooner maybe we could have had a real primary with a strong candidate that could have beaten Trump.
Trump is old and frail too! You’d think that a respectable news org like NPR would have spent even a little time covering the credible threats to democracy (and their own funding), and challenging the insane claims from orange man. But no, they had to go on and on and on about how Biden specifically was old and gave tons of credence and and credibility to Trump.
As far as I’m concerned, NPR bent over backwards to legitimize a madman who publicly declared his intent to destroy them multiple times.
I don’t really agree with this. NPR did talk about the threat to democracy. The problem was it was old news at that point, and frankly, it doesn’t seem like most Americans cared that much. So this coverage didn’t get much attention.
The reality is that most Americans care more about their personal finances than the state of the country as a whole. This is the cause of many of our problems. I’m not sure NPR was going to be able to fix this issue through their coverage.