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Okay, the bullshit is strong with this one [Brian Stelter alert] :

Trump’s victory over PBS and NPR ‘bias’ will be ‘devastating’ for rural areas, station leaders say

Of course, given that “rural areas” happen to be where conservative talk radio programs find their biggest audience, I think we may safely say that the disappearance of these pore rural NPR broadcasters will hardly be missed.

One could test this hypothesis, of course, simply by polling said audiences to make a simple choice between “NPR federal funding” and (say) “federal funding for rural road improvements”.  My guess:

(sent to me by Reader Mike L., thankee;  I would never have seen this, coming as it did from CNN)

9 comments

  1. “Nearly 3-in-4 Americans say they rely on their public radio stations for alerts and news for their public safety,” NPR CEO Katherine Maher said in a statement, arguing that NPR is a “lifeline.”

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    She’s a fucking liar and deserves to get her ass kicked but good.
    3-in-4? Pleez.

    1. During the recent Kerrville flood tragedy, NPR maintained their normal broadcast schedule throughout. They did not broadcast one single alert to that community, and just couldn’t waste their time on flyover country. Maher is a worthless fucking liar.

  2. Well, I’d guess that if NPR and PBS were truly valuable then Mr. Soros and his ilk can make up the difference…. On the other hand, PBS has had some good science programs I’ve used in my classroom over the years, one has to be selective, but that is true of any source of information.

    1. Meh, between internet radio and podcasts everyone will have essentially the same options as they do now. This isn’t 1965.

      NPR/PBS will not die but at least we will not be paying for it.

  4. The last time I ever listened to NPR was when my local station preemted science Fridays on Ray Suarez’s program. Of course that was before every TV and radio science show went full-in on Glueball Worming.

    Take a look at the county level in blue states. You’ll see rural areas are red. I don’t think they’re gonna be tuning in on NPR orPBS for much of anything

  5. I grew up in a rural area. Nobody would have admitted to watching PBS, even if the reception wasn’t snowy. Not one rural born TV viewer that didn’t move out from Portland to live in a yurt, ever watched PBS.

  6. If a tree fell in the forest and no one was near enough to hear it fall, did it make a noise?
    If NPR were eliminated from the radio airwaves and no one had ever listened to it, was it ever actually on the airwaves?

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