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It’s a shame NPR decided to sanewash trump and continuously mischaracterize the evil, immoral, illegal shit he does. I know I’m one of many who cancelled their memberships. Had NPR not bent, I’d be doubling down my monthly contributions. But they made their choices and now have to live with the consequences.
Seems like it would be more effective to just tell your local stations to stop carrying NPR programming if that's how you feel. If this goes through NPR will be fine and just keep on reporting the same as they have been because they've got tons of big foundations and corporations that donate to them directly and they've got a bunch of the most popular podcasts in the country they're running advertisements on besides. It's the little regional TV and radio stations that carry NPR shows alongside local reporting are going to have a lot harder time making their budgets.
That's exactly it. NPR will go on, but local, small market, broadcasters who receive as much as half of their funding from this, will be severely affected. Rural America will be the biggest loser here.
I've seen donations go to the stations themselves, not just NPR generally. Is that not correct?
If you're donating to a local station, the donation goes directly to the station itself, who may or may not use some of that donation to purchase NPR programming. Some people may choose to give to NPR directly instead, but that's usually big organizations like the MacArthur foundation or other big charitable trust funds.
Koch Family Foundation
Sorry, I haven't a clue.
Thanks for your reply anyway!
It's annoying but I saw it as they are trying too hard to present both sides, and trying to report on government happenings like these are more normal times. Still hard to listen to.
Big donors require it or they stop donating. Yes it stinks like day old fish left in the sun.
You're right that it sucks, but it's unlikely that contributions like your own would even come close to matching their congressional funding.
Well now they're getting neither. So look at how will that work out for them.
Part of the reason I don't really care if they get defunded. The sane washing was real.