Save NPR and PBS

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Anonymous wrote:"In a stunning blow to one of America’s most storied news networks, CNN suffered a dramatic collapse in viewership in July 2025, recording its lowest primetime ratings in history. Nielsen data reveals that CNN’s primetime lineup (8–11 p.m.) averaged a mere 497,000 total viewers, a catastrophic 42% drop from July 2024. The figures mark a steep decline for the network, which trailed far behind competitors MSNBC and Fox News, despite a news cycle packed with major political developments and global crises."


https://cordcuttersnews.com/cnns-viewership-hits-historic-low-in-july-2025-disastrously-bad-former-cnn-staff-say/

Did they stop buying viewers at airports and McDonalds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a rare moderate Republican but the elimination of funding of CPB is truly sad. Some senators, like Rand, say it’s a private enterprise and shouldn’t be funded by taxpayers. Well, how many billions have taxpayers funded Musk’s Tesla? But that’s not the point. I don’t listen to NPR as I’m not a radio person and most of my drive time is audio books. But I’m a huge fan of PBS. Yes, the PBS Newshour does have a leftist bent but no one else provides long coverage interviews with key people on both sides. And, half the show is about the arts, or quirky only in America events and in-depth interviews with people on both sides. Where else where you see Antique Road Show, This Old House, Downtown Abbey and all of the other British shows that would never be produced in the US. Locally, PBS stations covers areas with local news provided by no one else in places like Alaska and in the Dakotas. In Florida, my local station creates shows about the history of our state that no commercial station would ever touch because there is no profit in it. But, PBS does it because there is education value. And for many of us our first experience with PBS was education. As a child of the 60’s I remember a PBS show shown in school with Dorothy Glasgow (sp?) teaching Spanish.

Find another cause to support. There is absolutely no need for PBS or NPR.

There are a zillion cable networks. If a program is any good, one of them will pick it up. No need for taxpayers to fund shows nobody wants to see.

[Anonymous]

I am horrified by the loss of PBS and NPR. I rely on both for balanced news coverage. They tell the truth, unlike the right-wing Fox Propaganda Network, Sinclair, Breitbart and all those crazy right-wing deranged folk who post on FB and X and all over the innerwebs.

I wrote a check to NPR and PBS when this happened. NPR will survive as it gets very little money from the federal government. But PBS, I don't know. I don't want to listen to propaganda, so I will keep supporting PBS and NPR, and urge everyone I know, GOP or Dem, to support them, and keep them alive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am horrified by the loss of PBS and NPR. I rely on both for balanced news coverage. They tell the truth, unlike the right-wing Fox Propaganda Network, Sinclair, Breitbart and all those crazy right-wing deranged folk who post on FB and X and all over the innerwebs.

I wrote a check to NPR and PBS when this happened. NPR will survive as it gets very little money from the federal government. But PBS, I don't know. I don't want to listen to propaganda, so I will keep supporting PBS and NPR, and urge everyone I know, GOP or Dem, to support them, and keep them alive.

This is all part of the plan to dumb down Americans so that the authoritarian government can be quietly implemented. It's really sad. There are so many wonderful shows on PBS that are not political. Although, I guess any show that celebrates nature, features different cultures or presents history is now considered "woke". Half of America would rather watch wife-swapping, zombie or other low IQ shows.

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We definitely need more children’s programming showing nonbinary characters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We definitely need more children’s programming showing nonbinary characters.

… that are shills for Big Pharma

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved.

This actually hurts rural citizens more than urban ones, but I guess people don't care.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps they shouldn't have had such left-leaning bias/propaganda in their "reporting". Good riddance. Besides with the internet, lots of ways to get various news sources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps they shouldn't have had such left-leaning bias/propaganda in their "reporting". Good riddance. Besides with the internet, lots of ways to get various news sources.

Please cite the actual evidence of such bias in their reporting.

And CPB doesn't do the reporting. they are the clearing house for funds, mostly to rural radio and tv stations across the country.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a rare moderate Republican but the elimination of funding of CPB is truly sad. Some senators, like Rand, say it’s a private enterprise and shouldn’t be funded by taxpayers. Well, how many billions have taxpayers funded Musk’s Tesla? But that’s not the point. I don’t listen to NPR as I’m not a radio person and most of my drive time is audio books. But I’m a huge fan of PBS. Yes, the PBS Newshour does have a leftist bent but no one else provides long coverage interviews with key people on both sides. And, half the show is about the arts, or quirky only in America events and in-depth interviews with people on both sides. Where else where you see Antique Road Show, This Old House, Downtown Abbey and all of the other British shows that would never be produced in the US. Locally, PBS stations covers areas with local news provided by no one else in places like Alaska and in the Dakotas. In Florida, my local station creates shows about the history of our state that no commercial station would ever touch because there is no profit in it. But, PBS does it because there is education value. And for many of us our first experience with PBS was education. As a child of the 60’s I remember a PBS show shown in school with Dorothy Glasgow (sp?) teaching Spanish.

Find another cause to support. There is absolutely no need for PBS or NPR.

There are a zillion cable networks. If a program is any good, one of them will pick it up. No need for taxpayers to fund shows nobody wants to see.

Totally disagree. I only trust npr and pbs in the USA, all the others are sellouts who report fake news or suppress the truth. I trust guardian and Reuters, but they aren’t uniquely USA focused. Also, PBS has the only programming for kids that is legitimate. So we would miss out on kids programming, responsible news reporting, and the only decent adult programming on tv.

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Anonymous wrote:I am horrified by the loss of PBS and NPR. I rely on both for balanced news coverage. They tell the truth, unlike the right-wing Fox Propaganda Network, Sinclair, Breitbart and all those crazy right-wing deranged folk who post on FB and X and all over the innerwebs.

I wrote a check to NPR and PBS when this happened. NPR will survive as it gets very little money from the federal government. But PBS, I don't know. I don't want to listen to propaganda, so I will keep supporting PBS and NPR, and urge everyone I know, GOP or Dem, to support them, and keep them alive.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I am horrified by the loss of PBS and NPR. I rely on both for balanced news coverage. They tell the truth, unlike the right-wing Fox Propaganda Network, Sinclair, Breitbart and all those crazy right-wing deranged folk who post on FB and X and all over the innerwebs.

I wrote a check to NPR and PBS when this happened. NPR will survive as it gets very little money from the federal government. But PBS, I don't know. I don't want to listen to propaganda, so I will keep supporting PBS and NPR, and urge everyone I know, GOP or Dem, to support them, and keep them alive.

Please post where any of their “reporting” has been balanced. (hint: you can’t. It’s all propaganda and spin. All of it).

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps they shouldn't have had such left-leaning bias/propaganda in their "reporting". Good riddance. Besides with the internet, lots of ways to get various news sources.

For how many years do we have to listen to you MAGA liars just...lie. You say things that are blatantly untrue with some unfounded confidence and we are just supposed to listen to you despite all evidence to the contrary?

Stop lying. No one wants to hear you.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a rare moderate Republican but the elimination of funding of CPB is truly sad. Some senators, like Rand, say it’s a private enterprise and shouldn’t be funded by taxpayers. Well, how many billions have taxpayers funded Musk’s Tesla? But that’s not the point. I don’t listen to NPR as I’m not a radio person and most of my drive time is audio books. But I’m a huge fan of PBS. Yes, the PBS Newshour does have a leftist bent but no one else provides long coverage interviews with key people on both sides. And, half the show is about the arts, or quirky only in America events and in-depth interviews with people on both sides. Where else where you see Antique Road Show, This Old House, Downtown Abbey and all of the other British shows that would never be produced in the US. Locally, PBS stations covers areas with local news provided by no one else in places like Alaska and in the Dakotas. In Florida, my local station creates shows about the history of our state that no commercial station would ever touch because there is no profit in it. But, PBS does it because there is education value. And for many of us our first experience with PBS was education. As a child of the 60’s I remember a PBS show shown in school with Dorothy Glasgow (sp?) teaching Spanish.

The government should get the hell out of the tv & radio biz. There is no need for PBS & NPR now.

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Anonymous wrote:I am horrified by the loss of PBS and NPR. I rely on both for balanced news coverage. They tell the truth, unlike the right-wing Fox Propaganda Network, Sinclair, Breitbart and all those crazy right-wing deranged folk who post on FB and X and all over the innerwebs.

I wrote a check to NPR and PBS when this happened. NPR will survive as it gets very little money from the federal government. But PBS, I don't know. I don't want to listen to propaganda, so I will keep supporting PBS and NPR, and urge everyone I know, GOP or Dem, to support them, and keep them alive.

Please post where any of their “reporting” has been balanced. (hint: you can’t. It’s all propaganda and spin. All of it).

This has probably been shared before. Shows that NPR and PBS are factual and pretty neutral.