PBS To Cut Budget By 21% Following Loss Of Federal Funding
https://deadline.com/2025/08/pbs-budget-cuts-federal-funding-1236489467/
PBS To Cut Budget By 21% Following Loss Of Federal Funding
https://deadline.com/2025/08/pbs-budget-cuts-federal-funding-1236489467/
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Smallest violin. They still have a company. I see folks who are shuttering entire companies thanks to Trump’s tariffs. The backbone of whole towns is breaking. Fuck the federal funding, just stop messing with commerce please.
When Trump first threatened to cut off federal funds going to public broadcasting, I remember NPR would not shut up about how Trump was dumb because they were getting virtually no money from federal funding. Now they won’t shut up about how they’ve lost all their funding and are worried about the future. I support public broadcasting, but man are they disingenuous and out of touch sometimes.
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I guess you’ll have to wait until 2029, when some fictional bill — *The National Public Broadcasting Trust Act of 2029* — (a) restores public funding to NPR/PBS and (b) shifts it from discretionary to mandatory spending like Medicare and Social Security. It’ll piss off all the conservatives, but after four years of their horsecrap, maybe it’s time. Honestly, I’m more in the mood for maximalist, one-party rule until the damage they’ve caused is finally undone
Why not run limited commercials?
Ken Burns is the GOAT.
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Honestly- It sucks that it’ll probably only effect production crews and operations staff. A buddy of mine lives by a PBS exec and these fuckers live in a giant modern 3 story mansion with a 4 car garage (definitely millionaires). The last thing PBS needs is more money to keep paying these assholes huge tenure salaries.
I just became a $6 a month contributor. We love Donkey Hodie in this house💗
Hopefully they can hold out until we get a better president.
Where’s Toby zeagler when you need him ?
They need to make a premium channel/app without the fundraising crap which people would gladly pay for and it’d give them a steady stream of revenue.
Why cut 21%? Didnt they say the federal funding was only 3% of their budget?
Why cut 21%? Didnt they say the federal funding was only 3% of their budget?
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