[ April 24, 2024 ]
This is a small and most welcome beginning. Of course President Trump is right: funding should be ended to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
This would end some small chunk of enormous taxpayer-funded agitprop that the left has churned out from these entities for years. “Public broadcasting has earned bipartisan congressional support” because Republicans have been fools: public broadcasting is as one-sidedly leftist as the rest of the enemedia, or even more so. Why should half the U.S. population have to fund its constant demonization and denigration? End this funding immediately — all of it.
“Trump budget proposes elimination of public TV, arts funding,” by Ted Johnson, Reuters, February 12, 2018:
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WASHINGTON (Variety.com) – President Donald Trump’s newly unveiled 2019 budget again proposes the elimination of funding for the three major entities that award federal funding for public broadcasting and the arts: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The $4.4 trillion budget proposal is not much of a surprise to public TV and arts advocates, as Trump’s 2018 budget also called for zeroing out such funding. Instead, funding survived, which is a testament to just how much of a wish-list the White House budget really is, as opposed to something that will actually gain traction on Capitol Hill.
The rationale that the White House makes for eliminating the federal funding is that the outlay can be made up for by private donations and grants at the state level.
“CPB funding comprises about 15% of the total amount spent on public broadcasting, with the remainder coming from non-federal sources, with many large stations raising an even greater share,” the budget states. “This private fundraising has proven durable, negating the need for continued federal subsidies.
“Services such as PBS and NPR, which receive funding from CPB, could make up the shortfall by increasing revenues from corporate sponsors, foundations, and members. In addition, alternatives to PBS and NPR programming have grown substantially since CPB was first established in 1967, greatly reducing the need for publicly-funded programming options,” the budget reads.
CPB has received about $445 million in federal funding in recent years. The organization distributes grants to public stations, NPR and PBS.
“Public broadcasting has earned bipartisan congressional support over the years thanks to the value we provide to taxpayers,” PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger said in a statement.
She said the network and its 350 member stations and local supporters “will continue to remind leaders in Washington of the significant benefits the public receives in return for federal funding, a modest investment of about $1.35 per citizen per year.”
The NEA and NEH have each received about $150 million in federal funding, but they too have survived. In fact, their budgets increased slightly last year as Congress has funded the government through a series of short-term continuing resolutions.
Dana Gioia, who chaired the NEA under President George W. Bush, predicted several weeks ago that the arts funding would remain safe this year.
“The federal budget is the creation of the House of Representatives,” he wrote via email. “The House rejected Trump’s art cuts for the current year’s budget. They will reject them again. There is bipartisan agreement on supporting the NEA and NEH. There was no controversy whatsoever this past year in Congress. The Republican leadership supports the cultural agencies, as, of course, does the Democratic leadership. The fuss was all in the press.”
He added, “Whatever Trump recommends will not change the secure status quo.”…
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29 Comments
6 years ago
Waaaay past time for this!
6 years ago
Reply to
JustAl
Agree. They are Left/liberal pro-jihadi propaganda tool , they cannot be deemed as fair, free Press/media worth supporting. And Trump can say he is using the savings to fund education scholarship for poor students.
That will take the wind out of their Protest/opposition to this move.
Dems/Left/Liberal/socialist/feminazis have only destroyed countries which they ruled/misruled. Just Like this Bernie/Dems socialist utopia has collapsed https://tinyurl.com/yavxfl4m
6 years ago
When government money is involved, it’s the sky’s the limit. In this area, the NPR station has FIVE times more full-time employees than ALL of the other radio stations, within this listening area, combined. Moreover, with few exceptions, they’re nowhere close to the audience level held by any one of the others. That’s FIVE times the employees …. than the rest COMBINED.
6 years ago
Good it’s about damn time, that money can be better used for sick, starving, and homeless people + more
6 years ago
Reply to
Raven Vaughan
NPR has been anti-Trump from the get-go. Obama and ALL lefties get praise and a pass on the corrupt, so-called broadcast entity.
6 years ago
Reply to
Raven Vaughan
You mean people who mostly ended up that way through bad life choices?
6 years ago
This will go over like a turd in the punch bowl of the establishment…
6 years ago
Mark said, “NPR has been anti-Trump from the get-go.” Not only Trump; they’ve been anti-Conservative on everything. NPR, to me, is a national disgrace. Ending their funding is a must.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ed Newbold
When has there ever been anything worth spending time on their broadcasts?
6 years ago
Anybody willing to bet the liberal lefties that benefit from this are going to step up to the plate and help fund these programs that are their mouth piece for their anti Trump reporting, or are they just going to go into a complain mode?
I’ll bet the latter.
6 years ago
Reply to
Steve Kalmbach
I’ll make book and give ten to one odds …. that you are right, correct, beyond a doubt an infallible prediction.
6 years ago
Reply to
Steve Kalmbach
I would be surprised if such makes it through Congress with that intact. Democrats will filibuster.
6 years ago
Reply to
Steve Kalmbach
No,none of them who ‘claim’ to be a fan of the arts will step up to fund them, but they sure are going to moan and groan and name call because of the lack of funding.
6 years ago
Good, all the wealthy celebrities who consider themselves patrons of the arts” can now put their money where their mouth is. There is no reason to give self anointed elitists tax money to pay for art that is totally irrelevant to anyone but arrogant “artists” who insult everyone with their ignorance.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Except that it’s one of 18 requirements in the Enumerated Powers Clause (useful arts).
6 years ago
Donald grump on Sesame Street. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQyTpPu0gvc
Get’em while they’re young.
6 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
This is an outrage. Thanks for sharing this. It should be given much more publicity.
6 years ago
I suppose every administration must make sacrifices on some issues to make room for other priorities.
6 years ago
Long, long, long overdue. Let them malign our American values on their own dime.
6 years ago
good
6 years ago
It’s good old American capitalism at work. Get your money the old-fashioned way, earn it!
6 years ago
Trump gets better and better every day as president.
6 years ago
I enjoy the PBS channel on Freeview, generally pro-US and providing pretty accurate historical and other documentaries.
Makes a change from the usual MSM garbage.
But I don’t know how cost effective the setup is.
With a Smart TV box YouTube is a good option for me too.
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
6 years ago
Reply to
GandalfsTrouserpress
A couple of years ago, I read that PBS received many private donations and did not need federal funds.
6 years ago
These left wing org. Needed to be done away with long ago . Buck a Christian 100% disabled Vietnam veteran??⚔?? Right wing republican lifetime member NRA and a friend to Israel
D
6 years ago
Some of the “modern aint art forms” I have seen should have NEVER been made using PUBLIC FUNDS. We Americans should NOT be FORCED to help pay for these ATROCIOUS pieces of TRASH.
D
6 years ago
Let the Kimmels, the Lettermans, the Di Niros pay for all this crap. I am tired of paying for it.
