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4bonhoffer

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Sat Jul 19, 2025, 10:14 AM Jul 19

HOW did corporate caving work out for NPR and PBS? [View all]

I have been listening to and supporting NPR and PBS since their inception. I will continue to do so, however, I noticed over the years that the amount of corporate funding seemed to have an influence on the stories they neglected to tell. Two examples. When Scott Walker was destroying the government, workers unions in the state of Wisconsin NPR ran a lengthy piece on how much money unions were pouring into that state. Every word of that report was true. What they did not mention in that lengthy piece was that the unions were being out spent by a 7 to 1 ratio. I even called the ombudsman at NPR about that. NPR no longer has an ombudsman. This past election cycle everyone knew how important project 25 was .The news hour on PBS did one, I’ll repeat that the news hour onPBS did one story on project 25. I want PBS and NPR to thrive and will continue to support them , however, the stories that they stopped covering correlated with the amount of corporate funding that they were accepting. There are not two sides to a fact and what the Republicans and fascist hate are facts. Reporting facts is not liberal. Reporting facts is news. I sure hope NPR and PBS survive and get back to sticking to reporting facts and not worrying about who is going to be offended by the facts.

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