editorial cartoon, looks like artist is Adam Zygus
a huge belipsticked pig labled "$4 trillion deficit" with some Republican applying the lipstick while saying "This is about eliminating gov't waste ..." while shoving PBS, specifically Sesame Street and Oscar the Grouch, and NPR into a trash can
Beloved Calif. radio station #KQED bracing for 'devastating' Trump cuts https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/bay-area-public-radio-bracing-trump-cuts-20774554.php#NPR
New post: After decades, conservatives finally achieve their goal of defunding PBS and NPR; what's next for non-commercial public broadcasting in the US?
https://www.diversetechgeek.com/pbs-npr-get-defunded-whats-next/
The explosion in #media sources is what Capitol Hill #Republicans & their allies point to in justifying this year’s rescission package.
“With cellphones & internet & all that, I think the ability of people almost any part of the country to access all kinds of information sources is, you know, greater than it’s ever been,” Jeff Miron, a VP of Cato Institute, a libertarian research group, said this week—on none other than #NPR.
#Trump#PublicBroadcasting #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy
“He was unpleasantly surprised that a lot of conservative politicians from red states resisted,” said Steve Oney, the author of “On Air,” a book on the history of #NPR. “In their communities, their #PublicRadio & #PublicTelevision stations were seen as assets.”
Now, though, Oney said, “people get their news from anywhere they want, so there’s not the critical-mass support back in red-state America for #PublicBroadcasting.”
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed President Donald Trump's $9 billion funding cut to public media and foreign aid, sending it to the White House to be signed into law. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/18/world/us-congress-pass-trump-funding-cut/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #pbs #npr #aid #development #republicans
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When Holocaust survivors are implying that the Gaza genocide is *worse* than the Holocaust;
"Why in small ways? Because, he explains with signature empathy, he survived: 'Our experience, even with the fighting thrown in, and the war moving through us, was not as bad as what I can see the Gazans going through'.”
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25309584.holocaust-survivor-stephen-kapos-speaks-gaza-genocide/
... and you're a public broadcaster siding against the people of Gaza, you're clearly on the wrong side of history.
Heads must roll.
Also, why is @npr publishing Alice Through the Looking Glass war propaganda as if it's news?
"With a series of powerful blows to Iran and its proxies, Israel has reasserted its military dominance in the Middle East and reshaped the region less than two years after it was caught off guard in a surprise attack."
#GregMyre, 2025
"Greg Myre is a national security correspondent with a focus on the intelligence community ..."
https://www.npr.org/people/348766539/greg-myre
Ah.
Congrats to @pluralistic and @scalzi for making the #NPR staff favorites list for 2025 (so far)!
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/25/nx-s1-5356144/fiction-books-summer-2025
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