The thing is, it won’t really because NPR and PBS have plenty of outside funding and will continue to put out great podcasts and videos and other online media that they’re going to keep competing with. Defunding the corporation for public broadcasting is only going to kill tiny stations in rural markets that commercial broadcasters have generally abandoned already anyway because there aren’t enough people there to make for profit media work. The only people this helps are the ones who want to keep rural voters ignorant about what’s going on in the country (which, yeah, benefits these media companies in a lot of ways, but it’s not quite as simple as just killing their competition).
Oh, the media companies who sanewash the Mustard Mussolini will get rid of the public radio competition?
Shocking! Shocked I say!
The thing is, it won’t really because NPR and PBS have plenty of outside funding and will continue to put out great podcasts and videos and other online media that they’re going to keep competing with. Defunding the corporation for public broadcasting is only going to kill tiny stations in rural markets that commercial broadcasters have generally abandoned already anyway because there aren’t enough people there to make for profit media work. The only people this helps are the ones who want to keep rural voters ignorant about what’s going on in the country (which, yeah, benefits these media companies in a lot of ways, but it’s not quite as simple as just killing their competition).
Those people need NPR. NPR isn’t great all the time but it’s better than what they’re getting on Xitter and FB and Fox