silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTrump Signs Executive Order Seeking to End Federal Funding for NPR and PBSwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down12cross-posted to: nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
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minus-squarebdjukeemgood@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down8·2 days agoWait. Do we actually want our news funded by the government?
minus-squaregAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoYes, 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-up2·2 days agoYou 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-down1·2 days agoYou 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-down2·2 days agoYes. 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. 👌