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#OnThisDay in 1961, #NewtonMinow, then FCC Chairman and later a guiding force behind the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, delivered his legendary “Vast Wasteland” speech. His challenge to broadcasters to serve the public good helped shape the landscape of educational and cultural programming we value today.
The #FCC Must Reject Efforts to Lock Up Public #Airwaves
President Trump’s attack on public #broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there’s a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing—one that will take away Americans’ right to unencumbered access to our publicly owned airwaves.
#trump #publicbroadcasting #pbs #npr
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/fcc-must-reject-broadcast-drm
"The BBC is the heart of the UK’s media system. Yet despite the BBC being publicly funded, the public have no control over how it works.
Politicians have too much power to pressure the BBC, and it is struggling to compete against global streaming services and social media companies. Without radical reform, the BBC faces a bleak future of dwindling audiences and the loss of public trust.
By the end of 2027 the government is required to renew the BBC’s Royal Charter, which will set the terms of how the BBC operates for the next decade. The Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said she supports mutualising the BBC, with new structures for “genuine public representation and participation”.
This briefing explains how to transform the BBC into a new kind of institution: a public service mutual. Mutual organisations are run for the benefit of their members, and members are actively and directly involved in its operations.
As a public service mutual, the BBC will belong to all of us by right. We will all become BBC members — active and direct participants in its mission to inform, educate, entertain and connect.
Democratic mutualisation of the BBC requires that all members have two new powers, which together secure public representation and participation:"
https://www.common-wealth.org/publications/our-mutual-friend-the-bbc-in-the-digital-age
Bottom line, I support quality programming that puts the content above advertising dollars and clicks. #Commercialnews is not altruistic. Make #publicbroadcasting better, do not throw the baby out with the bathwater! 5/5
Letter to a #Senator / 05 May:: Mr. #Tillis_ Thank you for your response to my letter regarding the funding of #PublicBroadcasting. I steadfastly disagree with your belief that eliminating federal support of these networks is a meaningful contribution to addressing the country’s #deficit. 1/5
Jennifer Liu reports that NPR and PBS CEOs are taking a stand against Trump's executive order targeting their federal funding. On "Face the Nation," Katharine Maher and Paula Kerger stressed the threats to local news and educational programming, emphasizing that 20% of Americans lack access to local news, impacting rural areas, and that cuts could halt essential resources for preschoolers. Click to read more on this critical issue. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/04/npr-and-pbs-to-challenge-trump-over-public-funding-cuts.html #NPR #PBS #Trump #FederalFunding #PublicBroadcasting #Education #Media
Sen. Amy Klobuchar: "Public media delivers news, education, and emergency information to millions of people across Minnesota and the entire country. It’s especially important in rural communities. Pres. Trump’s executive order would take that away. It's just plain wrong."
#PBS #NPR #PublicBroadcasting #politics #media.
@Sheril Echo that for Canadians too. Many of us support PBS.
#PBS #PublicBroadcasting #Media
#MrRoger's entreat to #Congress to maintain funding for #publicbroadcasting remains a fundamental record of why these groups are important to a nation so large and diffused. 3/5
These programming outlets are vital services (like #NOAA) that unite the #nation by keeping them informed and educated on current events and topics. I am a child reared on #publicbroadcasting. 2/5
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs
Trump says he's ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. They say he can't
President Trump issued an executive order late Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board of directors to "cease federal funding for NPR and PBS," the nation's primary public broadcasters, claiming ideological bias.
"Neither entity presents a fair, accurate or unbiased portrayal of current events to tax-paying citizens," the order says.
The CPB noted that the statute Congress passed to create it "expressly forbade 'any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors."
Sidebar, when did #RobertReich @rbreich become my Luddite uncle who can’t figure out how to take a selfie?
Melanie D'Arrigo: "NPR receives $3 million/year in federal funding.
PBS receives $85 million. The military-themed birthday parade Trump is throwing himself will cost taxpayers $92 million. We’re told cutting news and kids programming to fund an authoritarian birthday bash somehow makes America great again.”
#Trump #priorities #politics #PublicBroadcasting
#NPR Chief Executive Katherine Maher said, “we will challenge this #ExecutiveOrder using all means available.” She called #Trump’s order “an affront to the #FirstAmendment rights of NPR & locally owned & operated stations throughout America to produce & air programming that meets the needs of their communities.”
…A representative for the #CPB did not comment on whether it will pursue legal action, but #PBS President Paula Kerger said in a statement that the service is “exploring all options.”
“The president’s blatantly #unlawful #ExecutiveOrder, issued in the middle of the night, threatens our ability to serve the American #public with #educational programming, as we have for the past 50-plus years,” Kerger said.
The #CPB immediately fired back Friday, with a statement asserting that the president does not have the #power to cut off its #funding — #Congress does.
“Congress directly authorized & funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government,” the CPB said in a statement.
The #ExecutiveOrder is the latest attempt by #Trump to limit or #intimidate institutions he does not agree with, including #LawFirms, #universities & #media companies such as #CBS, which is being sued for $20B over a “#60Minutes” interview w/fmr VP #KamalaHarris during the 2024 presidential campaign.