silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoTrump Signs Executive Order Seeking to End Federal Funding for NPR and PBSwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down12
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minus-squarebdjukeemgood@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down7·1 day agoWait. Do we actually want our news funded by the government?
minus-squaregAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoYes, because if they fuck it up we can vote them out of office, unlike Bezos and Murdoch and Zuckerberg and etc.
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoYou get that news in like a tenth of what they do and if that’s your issue just end the journalism and keep the shows because basically everyone loves them minus Nazis, bigots and morons.
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 day agoYou understand that it isn’t the government’s money right? We should go further and fund local journalism like we fund libraries.
minus-squarebdjukeemgood@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 day agoYes. Also apparently they get to decide how it’s distributed. Great way to get a citizen funded propaganda machine. 👌
Wait. Do we actually want our news funded by the government?
Yes, because if they fuck it up we can vote them out of office, unlike Bezos and Murdoch and Zuckerberg and etc.
You get that news in like a tenth of what they do and if that’s your issue just end the journalism and keep the shows because basically everyone loves them minus Nazis, bigots and morons.
You understand that it isn’t the government’s money right?
We should go further and fund local journalism like we fund libraries.
Yes. Also apparently they get to decide how it’s distributed. Great way to get a citizen funded propaganda machine. 👌