“The FCC chair is clearly undertaking an effort to bully and intimidate independent journalism, which is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes where democracy is under siege,” said one critic.
When is someone going to go full Designated Survivor on Trump and his dipshit cronies?
This is the slowest fucking death I could have ever imagined enduring
Sad day for everyone.
Considering how quickly NPR prostrated themselves to Trump as soon as the FCC inquiry started I’d say the press isn’t all that free.
What did they do specifically? I’m trying to figure out how much longer i can still consider npr a reliable source.
I can’t wait for all of the republicans at work to be told what to think. I’ll enjoy hearing how they try to sell me on PBS being biased.
It has educational programs?
I’m usually not big on hate and it seems like a lot of wasted effort. And I can generally understand where people are coming from even if I don’t agree with them.
But not this guy. I fucking hate him. I have never hated a person more in my entire life. He is the most useless piece of the most vile excrement and I will relish the day he is “shuffled off his mortal coil”.
Him and Elon need to go. Yesterday.
Honestly Elon scares me a little more. He’s not a complete moron (don’t get me wrong he’s close) and can easily manipulate the other dude.
In my opinion, I’m not sure this country will last 4 years of this. I had forgotten the daily rage I felt in his first term and this seems worse. And we are less than three months in. And god forbid RFK is confirmed and we have another pandemic. It will not end well.
We are less than three weeks in.
Yeah I meant to type weeks. But it already feels like months so I guess my brain “corrected” it.
This is part of the reason the Covid years felt so long and dissociative
Trump is destruction and retribution.
That’s all he’s been doing.
He also sells off all the broken peices of our society to his rich owners.
“I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials,” Carr wrote. “I have asked the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, with assistance from the FCC’s Media Bureau, to initiate an investigation into the underwriting announcements and related policies of NPR, PBS, and their broadcast member stations.”
Such an investigation is long overdue. My local NPR station broadcasts nothing but commercials.
I listen to NPR all the time and I have never once heard a commercial.
Is this sarcasm? Sponsorships are not the same as ads.
Not sure what practical difference there is between a sponsorship and an ad. Anytime I try to listen to my local public radio, each and every segment starts off with “this report brought to you by …blah blah blah…”
Do you never listen to any other radio stations? You know, like pretty much every other radio station out there that has a good 3-4 actual fully-produced (and often highly irritating) radio commercials every 15 minutes?
Also, please explain how public radio is supposed to survive without corporate underwriters. Especially now that the meager amount of federal funding they get is about to be taken away from them.
It’s got to be. Listening to NPR has spoiled me to the point where I can’t listen to regular music stations anymore because of the commercials.
well, yeah … and we all told you this was going to happen while the major print and broadcast media “both sidesed” trump and republicans for the last 8 years
sadly, nothing new-- the last administration was directly funding and covering for israel’s extermination campaign- well over 200 journalists killed in the last year… but yes, this is more of the same in a more domestic and less murderous sense.
yes, isn’t that funny, they’re both corrupt parties run by criminals! imagine that, some agreement here.
We were all telling you that one of them would be worse for Palestine than the other. And that’s the dude giving Israel bigger bombs.
Let me ask who you voted for.
He’s giving them the same bombs that the last guy was.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-sent-israel-thousands-2000-pound-bombs-since-oct-7-2024-06-28/
i’ll be the guy to admit it since you’re all cowards about your obvious support for the neoliberal war agenda, i voted third party… i voted jill stein- please spend your energy attacking jill stein, now, you muppet.
So you voted Jill Stein taking votes away from the democrats which in turn gave the presidency to the republicans who are factually going to be worse for Palestinians.
I’m not even American I have nothing to be a coward about. My own government is also complicit in surrporting Isreal (UK).
see, i have a different take-- the democrats lost my vote. period.
Thanks for sharing your different take. 😞
“bigger bombs” gaza is completely destroyed… as well as the innocent civilians they targeted… that happened during biden’s presidency… biden the self-proclaimed zionist.
Please do tell all the Palestinians still in Gaza that their lives are so meaningless to you that they do not exist.
Because that is what you’re saying right now.
according to your warped interpretation. i know what i’m saying and i don’t have the memory of a goldfish, sorry.
Your words:
“bigger bombs” gaza is completely destroyed… as well as the innocent civilians they targeted…
Is it completely destroyed along with all the civilians or not?
Folks? This is the imperial boomerang. What we do overseas comes home!
Israel is the laboratory. What they test there will come back to us eventually. Do not be shocked when Trump drone strikes a “migrant caravan” or something.
🤡
i expect to get ratio’d for bringing any semblence of balance to the discussion here. i’m no trump apologist, but democrats still have a lot to answer for, too.
i’m no trump apologist
Yes you are. Anytime you say ‘both sides are the same’, you’re just excusing the ways this administration is making things so much worse.
The Democrats suck, but saying they’re both the same despite drastic differences in magnitude is carrying water for trump to minimize the changes they’re making.
no, i’m not. i’m sick of the democrats only having energy when they’re out of power-- they chose to support genocide and bypass democracy to appoint their defacto choice for successor.
Yes, you are. It’s fine to take them to task, but don’t minimize the shit that’s going on now with that dismissive and objectively incorrect bullshit. It makes you look ignorant and uninformed about things when you incorrectly say they’re the same when they’re clearly much worse.
But whatever, I’m sick of arguing with BoTh SiDeS bullshit people. Bye.
Oh they’ve taken a step further than ‘both sides are the same.’ In order to support their argument, they are claiming in another part of this thread that Gaza has no people in it. They are actually trying to claim that Israel has killed literally every Palestinian in Gaza (presumably with Biden’s help) in order to avoid blaming the current administration for anything.
I’m really not surprised, these people didn’t seem super honest from the start. I’m just at the point where I call people on bullshit and block when they try to justify accelerationist or cryptofascist shit.
E: LOL mfer is tried to tone police the conversation when you called them out. Good on you for keeping on these people and showing just how unserious and obviously trolling they are.
You’re making the mistake of assuming these trolls are arguing in good faith.
i’m not minimizing, i’m asking for you to hold your own party accountable as well…
They literally called out the dems several times in their comment and they never said they wouldn’t call them out.
They take issue with you saying that both parties are the same when clearly one is worse than the other.
To really try and cement this in your brain.
BOTH BAD, ONE WORSE.
You see how Trump is already giving Israel larger bombs. That’s worse for Palestine right?
i’m no trump apologist,
Yes you are
can i call you a genocide apologist ? i assume you call yourself a democrat and were pulling for kamala to continue biden’s heinous legacy… feel free to correct me on this, its just an assumption after all (man enough to admit that)
I’m not concerned with your assumptions, only what you’ve told us here
lol… not willing to back your horse publicly?
I’ve stopped with this stupid game of defending myself against random accusations. Tagged you as BoTh SiDeS
we are like 11 days in and have already become more officially fascist than not, and you think the painfully tiresome wHaTaBoUt bullshit is “balance” because you say it is? GTFO
well, you can just downvote me, i guess. free country, innit?
Yes, 5 day old account.
soon it will be 6. then you cannot say such things!
For now.
And why do you feel balance is the most important thing right now?
“the most important thing” excuse me? don’t put words in my mouth.
Because it’s the only thing you mentioned. Don’t take me for a fool.
