silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 天前Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking to End Federal Funding for NPR and PBSwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down12
arrow-up1121arrow-down1external-linkTrump Signs Executive Order Seeking to End Federal Funding for NPR and PBSwww.nytimes.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 天前message-square12fedilink
minus-squarebdjukeemgood@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down9·14 天前Wait. Do we actually want our news funded by the government?
minus-squaregAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·14 天前Yes, because if they fuck it up we can vote them out of office, unlike Bezos and Murdoch and Zuckerberg and etc.
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·14 天前You get that news in like a tenth of what they do and if that’s your issue just end the journalism and keep the shows because basically everyone loves them minus Nazis, bigots and morons.
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·14 天前You understand that it isn’t the government’s money right? We should go further and fund local journalism like we fund libraries.
minus-squarebdjukeemgood@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·14 天前Yes. Also apparently they get to decide how it’s distributed. Great way to get a citizen funded propaganda machine. 👌
Wait. Do we actually want our news funded by the government?
Yes, because if they fuck it up we can vote them out of office, unlike Bezos and Murdoch and Zuckerberg and etc.
You get that news in like a tenth of what they do and if that’s your issue just end the journalism and keep the shows because basically everyone loves them minus Nazis, bigots and morons.
You understand that it isn’t the government’s money right?
We should go further and fund local journalism like we fund libraries.
Yes. Also apparently they get to decide how it’s distributed. Great way to get a citizen funded propaganda machine. 👌