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Does this mean the end of PBS?

huslage 1y ago
No, but it means the end of financial support for many programs on PBS and NPR.
atonse 1y ago
No idea. Anyone have a good source of how much of PBS's funding comes from CPB? Update: Just confirmed, no. Federal funds only makes up 15% of PBS's funding. [1] 1: https://foundation.pbs.org/ways-to-give/gifts-to-the-pbs-endowment-fund/ https://foundation.pbs.org/ways-to-give/gifts-to-the-pbs-end...
dingnuts 1y ago
For the last twenty years PBS proponents have been telling me that PBS and NPR are mostly member supported, and that the Federal funds couldn't corrupt the messaging because there just wasn't enough of it to matter. So if that's true, I guess not. If it was actually a mouthpiece, I guess so
- mc32 1y ago
  Yah they also took money from the “Archer Daniels Midland” corporation (not that I’d have anything against organic produce, for example) and the Ford and many other biased endowments —so I think it’d be hard to believe their messaging was unaffected. That or they bit the hand that fed it and the hand didn’t mind getting bitten for some reason.
oldpersonintx2 1y ago
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heavyset_go 1y ago
It does for smaller stations that depended on federal funding to operate.
legitster 1y ago
Probably not. CPB gave funding to rural smaller stations which buy programming from PBS (or NPR). It will drastically scale back the funding and coverage of public broadcasters, but they should (hopefully) survive. That said, they effectively cease being public at this point. And ironically enough, they have no reason anymore to pander to wider audiences so if anything they will become more "left leaning" over time.
- tyre 1y ago
  “Reality has a well known liberal bias”, as they say.
  - throw7 1y ago
    Nowadays they say, "Reality is a social construct."
    - immibis 1y ago
      I've never heard this saying.
tptacek 1y ago
No. What's really going to end PBS as we grew up with it is streaming. CPB is an vehicle for distributing public funding to PBS stations; only a small fraction of PBS station funding comes from CPB through the government.
jordanpg 1y ago
No, but I think it's likely that NPR and PBS will change because of this. A lot of people work there because of its explicit mission to serve the public. As with every other federal institution that's being pointlessly kneecapped, lots of good people will look elsewhere.

No, but it means the end of financial support for many programs on PBS and NPR.

No idea. Anyone have a good source of how much of PBS's funding comes from CPB? Update: Just confirmed, no. Federal funds only makes up 15% of PBS's funding. [1] 1: https://foundation.pbs.org/ways-to-give/gifts-to-the-pbs-endowment-fund/ https://foundation.pbs.org/ways-to-give/gifts-to-the-pbs-end...

dingnuts 1y ago

For the last twenty years PBS proponents have been telling me that PBS and NPR are mostly member supported, and that the Federal funds couldn't corrupt the messaging because there just wasn't enough of it to matter. So if that's true, I guess not. If it was actually a mouthpiece, I guess so

mc32 1y ago
Yah they also took money from the “Archer Daniels Midland” corporation (not that I’d have anything against organic produce, for example) and the Ford and many other biased endowments —so I think it’d be hard to believe their messaging was unaffected. That or they bit the hand that fed it and the hand didn’t mind getting bitten for some reason.

oldpersonintx2 1y ago

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heavyset_go 1y ago

It does for smaller stations that depended on federal funding to operate.

legitster 1y ago

Probably not. CPB gave funding to rural smaller stations which buy programming from PBS (or NPR). It will drastically scale back the funding and coverage of public broadcasters, but they should (hopefully) survive. That said, they effectively cease being public at this point. And ironically enough, they have no reason anymore to pander to wider audiences so if anything they will become more "left leaning" over time.

tyre 1y ago
“Reality has a well known liberal bias”, as they say.
- throw7 1y ago
  Nowadays they say, "Reality is a social construct."
  - immibis 1y ago
    I've never heard this saying.

tptacek 1y ago

No. What's really going to end PBS as we grew up with it is streaming. CPB is an vehicle for distributing public funding to PBS stations; only a small fraction of PBS station funding comes from CPB through the government.

jordanpg 1y ago

No, but I think it's likely that NPR and PBS will change because of this. A lot of people work there because of its explicit mission to serve the public. As with every other federal institution that's being pointlessly kneecapped, lots of good people will look elsewhere.