When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
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Project 2025. They literally wrote it down.
Release the Epstein files.
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If you can donate but always support our public media, our voice. Our story ✊🇺🇸
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Sorry, but this is not my fault, and I can't spare a donation. Tough times.
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Ciao, Key Employees and Officers Compensation John F Lansing (President & Ceo) $549,701 Steven Inskeep (Sr. Host) $490,881 Michel Martin (Sr. Host) $444,416 Peter Sagal (Host) $436,962 (WHAT?) Rachel Martin (Host) $426,467 Nancy Barnes (Svp, News & Editorial) $415,987
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Not everyone wants to be connected to you.
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Australian public media is partly made up of independent radio stations funded by a loyal subscriber base and sponsors (like cafes and small businesses) with volunteer labour. What’s the situation in the States? Can crowd funding keep NPR etc alive?
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Don’t get me wrong, I understand the untenable position NPR is in, but I can’t help pause to look at the situation we’re in.
We’re still paying our taxes, and, now we’re donating to pay for the public services we paid taxes to fund.
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Good riddance to marxist lies and revisionist history. They haven't had a straight white male scientist on Nova for 30 years.
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I trusted NPR the most.
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Love NPR programming. But! diversity of viewpoint was missing and that is part of mission with public funding.
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Hey @mcuban.bsky.social Wanna be a hero? Help.
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I'm not red by a long shot but NPR & PBS were guilty of suppressing the news about the genocide after Oct 7th and still hide it today so I'm actually glad they got clipped of funds and hope they go under and have to close the doors. They belong here on bsky like all the other pro genocide Dems.
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Can it be recreated ? This is brutal 😔
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You guys are really weird. That might be the worse attempt at music ever.
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Bye bye
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All donor State should stop sending money to tRUmp's federal gov't and, instead, send that money to public broadcasting media.
That would be a better use of my significant CA tax dollars that are wasted on Repub-ruled States and tRUmps golf trips.
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So true. The internet just doesn’t replace NPR. Here is an idea: I know it’s capitalism so sit tight: market and sell NPR. Make billions and have the liberal owner spread it across the country. Private distribution is more efficient than an old government
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Before I consider donating, I really really have to ask -
For whom did the governing board of NPR vote in this last presidential election?
If the majority of the board voted for Republicans, then they voted for this. Why are we now obligated to save NPR?
November was the time to think about that
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You wanna survive? Elevate the voices of local public news outlets.
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- need to create a new net work shown on over the air TV called public access international with world wide moneyed millions to fund it & keep it going - with BBC CBC & european perpectives - surely this can be done before dooms day ? ! -
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I cannot donate to NPR. NPR has been super disappointing over the last couple of years. I cannot support news outlets that “both sides” & normalizes a criminal pedophile like Trump. You are one of the reasons we are in this mess.
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I just donated to fabulous The Current, Minnesota Public Radio, which has brought a lot of fun and great music to my daily life. I hope a lot of people decide to donate to NPR! 😊👍
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Meh, I’ll be ok without you.
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am so very sad . we actually thought you didn't rely that much on federal money.
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I have a hard time believing anyone that wants to get rid of Public broadcasting in any form ever watches or listen to the broadcasts.
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Cancel a streaming service and give it to your local public radio station or public broadcasting station.
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We ordered People to advertise PBS & NPR Stations Worldwide to get Donors from All over the Globe. Why Not?
Make Public Television Great Again!
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Time is running out Fast. Donate Now Keep PBS & NPR On the AIR. Do it now!
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I donate monthly, but have added more during pledge drives
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I am confused. I want to support PBS and NPR, but the announcement was made that PBS was winding down and closing shop. Is NPR also closing? PBS abolished DEI. I can’t support that. Did NPR also end DEI? Give us hope and reason to support at this time please
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Will do.👍🏻
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Who in there right mind have ever watched those channel, perhaps in 1955
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I guess pitching big fat softballs to right wing politicians & activists for decades didn’t really work out for y’all, did it?
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@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social , this is you in 5 years!
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Is there a plan for NPR? Can you say “We need this much by this time to maintain this programming” or is it too soon?
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Welcome to the DSA. The DISunited States of America. In Dutch we have a saying: "Ieder voor zich en god voor ons al".
"Everyone for itself and god for us all"?
Since god doesn't exist, don't expect unity under #TACO.
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I'd happily donate if you hadn't fully participated in the sane-washing of TACO during the election.
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Now's the time to donate? really... nothing else to say?
Like, don't vote for republican come midterms. Any republican! got to weed out all those elected republicans tainted by Trump 1st. Put a dem in & come following midterm vote for whoever. But 1st we need to tame this president & project 2025
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Republicans don’t like the truth. It’s their krypyonite.
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Always have. Always will.
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“Lasted trusted source” You still think pretty highly of yourself.
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Like the stenographers for the government in the UK I would never give the press a penny, you never earned the help of ordinary citizens, you were their enemy, never make deals with the devil, he will eat you when he's finished using you.
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Ok 😞 here we go again and here we are AGAIN!! Another Republican arrested for SEX OFFENSES!! Seriously it’s ALWAYS a REPUBLICAN ALWAYS!! And every week it seems this is happening! THIS CULT GOP (GASLIGHTING OUR PEOPLE) non stop HAS A SERIOUS SICKENING SICKNESS IN IT!!!
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I donated - I paid my taxes, of which a portion should be paying for NPR. Literally the kind of thing taxes are for.
I didn’t put these fascists in office. Media not reporting on the danger that was over 10 years in the making might’ve helped keep government for - you know, citizens?
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*With federal funds being eliminated by REPUBLICANS on orders from FASCIST FELON TRUMP
Start calling a spade a spade and stop trying to appease fascists, and I'll consider reupping my now lapsed monthly donation.
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Physician, heal thyself. Stop aping the shitty journalism of legacy platforms. You've lost thousands of dollars in potential donations from me since around 2015 because your "political journalism" (wtf even is that? how about government coverage instead of horse-race?) is helping wreck the country.
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Not Nearly Enough F*cking Things Considered.
NPR Must Do Better In The Age of Trump This post has two primary purposes: I’ll debunk NPR’s argument that journalists should not use the word “lie” to describe false statem…
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Trump is planning to steal the House in 2026.
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LMAO! Get your own funding like everybody else. #parasites #propagandists
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Taxation without representation! We deserve a refund of every $ that tRump Administration is misappropriating into their billionaire pockets and trump too! 🖕🏼🌮💯☠️💙☠️💙
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This is what you get for killing off Mr. Hooper. And you thought you'd get away with it.
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Many their ONLY source of information. Cable and internet still don't reach all Americans.
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Millions have many independent journalism sources. You fucked up and now you are dying.
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As you beg for donations in the name of ‘a trusted source for news’, you can’t even be trusted to say who exactly is responsible for eliminating your federal funding. Pitiful.
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You need to clear house of your leadership, replace them those who will fight for democracy.
If you can't do that, so long and thanks for all the fish!
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I'm sure all the viewers of Frontline and NOVA will switch over to watching American Pickers and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
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Actually PBS has not been that trustworthy since the days of MacNeil/Lehrer. One a Canadian, the other from the American Heartland = Kansas. Networks like Discovery, History Channel do some similar programming. Maybe PBS/NPR should go straight to streaming with public/business donation support?
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We're somehow going to have create and donate to all kinds of things if we want to continue the good and decent benevolent works that used to be done by our government on our behalf for the less and least fortunate among us and the world.
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Help save Public Media …
We will need it more than ever with the MSM selling out and the trump government fudging data
Please donate and repost
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Start calling out authoritarianism when it’s plain. No more mealy-mouthed bs. No more capitulation. I’ll start my sustaining membership again. Both-sidesing the news got you into this mess.
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Release the TRUMP FILES!!
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- or - millions are no longer being Lied to by NPR with their endless pity party stories that feed progressives insatiable addiction to arrogantly looking down on others without ever understanding why any circumstances take place or what the issues involved are
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Trump voters aren’t listening to NPR, or any legacy media. news.northeastern.edu/2024/11/06/t...
Leading up to the election, Trump voters trusted friends and family over traditional media, Northeastern research finds
A John Wihbey survey reveals a political “news divide” and growing distrust in conventional news sources among Republicans.
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Gotta love the people who are gleefully ready to lose their last non-corporate owned major news source because they saw some idiot’s podcast that made them feel better about their politics. Judging by what they’re saying about NPR, they’ve never listened.
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I am also public media , donate to me too ?
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I made an extra donation on the very day this travesty was signed. I will continue to do what I can. 😢
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"millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection" unfortunately what was meant to be trusted as in not taking any sides but reporting the news accurately has not been the situation with public radio for the past several years.
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Go to Democracy Now
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I just joined the Producers Club with my local PBS/NPR station. Please consider doing the same, or as much as you can afford. Public media is a national treasure!
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no alt text so I have to mute now. good luck bringing everyone together while ignoring accessibility.
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If you promise me you’ll dig for the truth and quit spinning the truth. Do you promise?
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Media should be independent, unbiased and have a healthy dose of curiosity to dig for the truth. You don’t do that so why should I pay your salary,
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I donated $86.47
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Absolutely. Donate monthly or increase your current donation. Cancel one streaming service and donate that. Do it for democracy.
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Deliberate trumpism effect etc
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If NPR wasn't a Zionist rag spreading propaganda I would again donate. Heavily biased discounting the genocide, the actions of war criminals, not calling out Israel, their Occupation Force terrorists for what they are doing.
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Wow. I’m all for donating. Public media is about sharing a balanced view. For some that equates to ‘capitulation’. IMAO, NPR neither surrendered or submitted they trended water & played the game. So get off your high horse & see what’s important. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face…
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This sucks so bad. 😡
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FWIW, the fix was in for CPB and NPR when the right freaked out over Tele Tubbies. Once the outrage machine was ginned up, the Bush admin put right wingers on the board of CPB. So, the kowtowing was likely forced. They have to pivot away from soft peddling criticism of GOP illegality and bad faith
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Maybe if you had at least pretended to fair and unbiased you’d still have your funding.. hey! Maybe you can get sponsors like everyone else 😃
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Oh no the consequences of "safe reporting" for the Face-Eating-Jaguars. Maybe if you had the strength and conviction to report on what these traitors were doing, we wouldn't be here. @npr.org
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Have you asked Jonah Goldberg for money? He made a lot with “Liberal Fascism” yet you still employ him.
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Hey #Elon, you could fund @npr.org for the next 100 years.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting might be killed off by maga, but the essence of NPR and PBS will continue…
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Write the IRSs and tell them since Trump does not have to pay taxes, we will be donating our federal taxes to NPR and PBS. I am seriously thinking of running that up the flagpole. Nothing says Americans have to pay for lawlessness and the Trump admin, is utterly lawless.
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Well, the replies to this post tell me that if you want BlueSky money you're gonna have to placate their worldview instead of the who what when where and why because activism is the only real journalism now I guess.
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Unfortunately, the people who see this as a victory don't care. They see Public Media as the bad guy because the GOP is afraid of truth reaching their base.
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We subscribed. We think public radio is a necessity.
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Bezos? Bloomberg? Zuckerberg? Anybody ready to help too? I am a supporter for 15 years. Small donor.
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Correction: “… millions of leftists may lose their…”
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Wow reading these comments I can see clearly that I am not alone in my feelings for NPR...
I stopped listening and supporting about a decade ago, mainly for the reasons that other people have already stated.
You normalize Nazis . That's never ok.
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And because MAGA refuses to contribute to public media, their opinions should be erased from it...
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Donated!! We appreciate the work you do and thank you for all your hard work!
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Don’t worry. There are plenty of places to find. Places that actually report all the news and information.
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Your trash and you lie , why should our tax dollars go to a arm of the dnc
Cut the funding , make them pay it all back
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Hard sell right now, you need ...
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In Florida, we have rags like the @tampabaytimes.bsky.social that stroke Trump's scrotum day and night hoping for a pat on the head from Dear Leader. Cancel your subscriptions!
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You just have to start from scratch and earn money just like the rest of the media companies. I cant believe we were paying you so much to begin with. The biggest conflict of interest you can have is paying a media company for news.
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💙💙💙
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Quadrupled our monthly donation. Love you NPR!
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Love npr but im pretty sure your dead in the water..economy is too bad to send money...and no corporation will help with any significance because they benefit from
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I don't see many people wanting to open their wallets to an organization that placated both sides rather than reporting on them. It's interesting to see the groveling while they continue to do so. There's probably better places to be donating right now, like locally in your own town.
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Reporting truth objectively might have helped
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We donated and believe in public media.
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I just listened to a segment where the “liberal” rep in the convo didn’t even believe in universal healthcare, I washed my hands of you years ago. I’m sorry this is happening to you, I hope you all find nice places to retire.
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Isn't npr a huge supporter of war criminals like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden?
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I donate
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Yeah BlueSky, help NPR continue to lie to and propagandize Americans!
Send them your hard earned money to fund more of Maher & her communist regime NPR’s 24 hour fake hit jobs against our duly elected POTUS.
If Maher isn’t arrested, you’ll make her rich!
Dig deep LibbyLand! She’s your friend!🤣
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Not trusted. Not even a little.
You were one-sided it was blatant and disgusting. Propaganda, but worse.
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In all other countries this service is paid with general income tax. But y'all wanted to spend the money on gay weapons and going to Mars. Time to pay up america.
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NPR was complicit in getting Trump elected, yet curiously they come to a predominantly liberal website begging for donations & not Fox News.
They should have thought of that ahead of time when they gave Trump one free pass after another, all while holding Democrats to impossibly high standards.
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The lengths lengths to which NPR went to sanewash Trump and minimize his criminality will not soon be forgotten. #FAFO
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How do other TV stations support themselves? Maybe NPR and PBS should do it the same way.
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Hey Elon, Wana piss off tRump? Set CPR up for the next 5 years or more.
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Public media gives another perspective. Without it the WH will use its influence with Newsmax and Fox to control the narrative.
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Traitor tRUmp. That kind of says it all, eh?
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Good riddance NPR. Tax dollars should not be used to fund media.
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I am heartbroken and very scared.
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I stopped trusting you when your senior SCOTUS reporter thought it was appropriate to host the people she was covering as her VIP cocktail party guests
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Start selling ads and collect donations. Anything to save the public media system!
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I'm sorry to say this NPR, but you were part of the both-sidesing and sanewashing. You piled on with the rest of the corporate media. You may have been trying to CYA, but you did it at America's expense. People are trying to put food on the table. Now is the time to mobilize.
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You get what you deserve. Well done for propping up the far right. Idiots.
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Don’t forget your small local public media outlets. In rural Alaska, for example, some of our public media outlets relied on up to 90% of their budget from federal sources and the community doesn’t have the resources to make that up.
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Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
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On journalism "If someone says it's raining, and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true."
@jonathanpienews.bsky.social(Origin: Sheffield Uni Journalism Prof J Foster)
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Absolutely not.
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It's partly your fault that we are in this mess by normalizing the dismantling of our government institutions.
Not getting a dime from me.
We'll have to start from scratch after the dust settles.
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Sorry, we already donate.
We The People CANNOT make up the $9 BILLION loss.
Time to bite the bullet and accept the outcome.
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Lotta people who supposedly hate the trump admin's choices, yet are telling the recently defunded public media company "good you deserve what the administration just did to you". Fucks sake people save your snide bs until after the dust settles and the fascists are gone
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Okay... Ive actually have seen the definition of.. Fake News.
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Careers will be crushed by Trump and the GOP irresponsible action to cut important programming for the rural electorate. I just hope we can survive until the midterms and push MAGA out and flush them out to the septic tanks. Irresponsible, callous, immoral, and lawless leaders will pay the price.
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I am sorry but until all media learns to report both the problem and promote the solution they are useless and get no money from me. See sadpac.com for how and why and bsky.app/profile/wilb...
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Mr Rogers is spinning in his grave. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7...
May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications
YouTube video by Road Less Marveled
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All those years both siding, kissing their ass, false equivalency, refusing to call call them out for what they are, and the Republicans still defunded you anyway. Have you finally learned your lesson?
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I donated in addition to my regular monthly contribution. I love KCRW which is my NPR station.
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One party embraces bigotry and fascism while the other embraces democracy, fairness and inclusion. NPR sees both as equal in the political spectrum. This why you’re being abandoned NPR.
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You guys have been giving free air to MAGA lies and fearmongering about trans people, the homeless, Black and brown people, immigrants, and Palestinians for a decade now, so don't be surprised if I don't mourn your demise.
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So…..I give you money and you close the doors for good? Taking me funds? Leaving me nothings? Sounds republican……
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Once you actually start calling this administration out on its blatant lies and unconstitutional behavior, I may be more inclined to donate.
Your current headlines are bullshit, considering the state of this coup.
Now that your federal funding has been revoked, what do you have to loose?
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Let’s not forget what they are really after: THE BROADCAST LICENSES
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Donate now billionaires who consider themselves decent human beings!!!
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Goodbye NPR, hello social media!
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When public media disappears, So do the most intimate musical performances ever recorded. Tiny Desk. Over 1200 performances. 45 million views per month. A diverse range of your fav artists & those you’ve never heard of but should. Tbh, it kept some of us sane during the pandemic.
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Bring us together?
Ha. I cannot imagine a more divided country.
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NPR needs to emphasize and expand its INTERNET PRESENCE as Local transmitters go silent.
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Also, check where your local NPR funding comes from.
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Organizations that have lost government funding are now asking the public for help. But how realistic is that for us? We’re not receiving tax credits to help you. I hope solutions can be found, but many of us simply can’t afford to be the backup plan.
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apparently, nobody in this country can do anything unless we give them more money
then when we give them more money they do nothing
except ask for more money
including the Democrats many of whom are actually paid to do something
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In 1986 I worked My mother at a newspaper office using NPR and back then it was unbiased news source today’s NPR is a liberal left biased, so I am not going to donate a single penny to a slanted media company. It’s a bunch of BS.
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Maga republicans hate any news outlet that tells the truth. As such they want to destroy anything that benefits the average person so they can have more and more. Remember to vote them out.
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Just donated $10 to my local public media station.
My $10 isn’t going to keep the lights on….but if we all donated $10, it could do so much more than that….
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Well, it's too bad you both-sided and sane-washed Dump into office not once, but twice. WTF did you expect?
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#signalboost
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You’ve gotta be kidding me?
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I don’t donate to anything with “National” in its name, because there’s no way of knowing if the loot is siphoned to Donny Dump and related felons. 🤷♂️
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I’ve been supporting public media for years and have just upped my donation to help them continue with their excellent programs.
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If only 10 to 15 percent of your money is public, then you ought to be able to weather this.
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Cutting public media isn’t “saving money.” It’s dimming the lights on millions who rely on NPR for clarity in the chaos.
This isn’t left vs right — it’s truth vs noise. If independent media matters to you, now’s the time to show up.
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Set up my monthly gift!
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Nazi Pushing Radio. NPR brought this on themselves. I am sorry for a lot of people, but the leopard ate your face.
We need facts over bothsiderism. We need compassion and empathy of walking in each other's shoes more than we need discussions validating who goes in "first they came for"
Not NPR.
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Y'all have been jettisoning AP Style standards on neutrality to show clear bias to the U.S. government instead of being muckrakers.
Honestly, I'm not going to miss y'all given how you lot have chosen to serve the state rather than actually report news.
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Trump won’t stop until billionaire own everything. Control everything. That includes you.
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I wish I could. I got my $1500 ss check a week ago. My bills have left me with $2 in my account. Maybe not being here will help.
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I donated! I hope everyone who reads this will do the same.
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Maybe those 1%ers who got the tax cuts that defunded NPR could make a contribution. I won't hold my breath.
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Goodbye both-sidesism, why should we defend that?
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I would make a donation if y'all publicly announced the firing of your capitulating board members.
Pretty sure a lot of people would as well. Editors and chairmen of your board killed NPR when they capitulated to Trump and the GOP last year.
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I used to give money and donations but you left the mainstream and went hard left. Americans do not want that bullshit you are selling. Turn this ship around and go back to being neutral. Otherwise, you get nothing.
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Well how about being neutral in your reporting and stop being an outlet that only supports the left. You do not need Government funding. Ask your supporters to pay for the garbage you deliver.
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JFC "When trump and Republicans eliminated our funding"
FFS
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I think it's disgraceful funds have been denied to PBS, but I will honestly say: they were an abject failure in their reporting of Trump, his lies, project 25, etc Their reporting was sooooo cowardly
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You guys adjusted your reporting to suit a white Nationalists agenda.
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You are part of the problem, sane washing everything the felon does. You bent the knee and deserve what you get
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NO
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Liked. Commented. Now I’m 1 click away from being your favorite notification.
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I donate monthly already.
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Sell ads like all other media.
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Already do, but I guess I need to upgrade and get some new merch, lol.
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Why aren’t you suing the Trump administration? Fight back. @npr.org
