Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years Due to Trump Eliminating Funding

The people who want to spread disinformation to the public.

The people who don't want an educated electorate.

People who profit from ignorance. So basically all corporations.

A bunch of conservative folks felt that some media that received funding from the CPB --- e.g. NPR --- promoted issues on the left.

I'd say that it was probably center-left, but not by much, and very little of NPR's funding actually came from the CPB.

A lot of radio in the US is, as far as I can tell, on the right, like, Christian religious stuff is a very substantial portion of it. I suppose if you're fighting for mindshare among the rural public, you probably don't much want competition.

searches

https://www.insideradio.com/free/format-counts-2024-country-still-leads-christian-religion-growing/article_0620c096-c742-11ef-8a86-ef7523510a36.html

Rank	Format - Number of Stations	Dec 23	Jan 24	Dec 24	Gain/Loss YOY	Gain/Loss YTD
1	Country	2,164	2,163	2,168	4(0.2%)	5(0.2%)
2	Religion (Teaching, Variety)	2,036	2,037	2,072	36(1.7%)	35(1.7%)
3	News/Talk	2,005	2,000	1,984	-21(-1.1%)	-16(-0.8%)
4	Contemporary Christian	1,363	1,366	1,407	44(3.1%)	41(2.9%)

No count of NPR stations that I can quickly find, but about three-and-a-half pages here:

https://legacy.npr.org/stations/pdf/nprstations.pdf

Maybe very roughly 900 NPR stations, as a quick estimate based on how many are in a single column.

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

Project 2025 proposes reconsidering the accommodations given to journalists who are members of the White House Press Corps.[6] It proposes defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private, nonprofit corporation that provides funding for the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio, as "good policy and good politics" because it accounts for "half a billion dollars squandered on leftist opinion each year".[100]: 246 [189]

It also entertains the idea of revoking NPR stations' noncommercial status, forcing them to move outside the 88–92 range on the FM dial, which could then be taken by religious programming.[190] Brendan Carr, who wrote the article on the Federal Communications Commission in Project 2025,[100] was appointed by Trump to lead the FCC, and subsequently launched an investigation into NPR and PBS, in accordance with Project 2025.[191]

Shitler and the Turd Reich

GOP desperately needs to show reduction in gov spending. Even if it hurts rural conservatives more than others, and even if it has higher hidden costs.

Local programming (hyper-local news, alerts, announcements) will go away and be replaced with pre-recorded programming.

Exactly!

Prager U is set to replace PBS, I think.