Trump to defund PBS/NPR.

[nat4900]

Every wanna-be despot MUST have an enemy....For Mussolini it was the communists and socialists; for Hitler it was those Jewish bankers....and for Trump it will be that evil media (except for FOX, Breibart and Daily Caller, of course.)

 

[eflatminor]

Historically, the first order of business for an authoritarian government is to neutralize the media and press. That is what trump is doing by attacking the media. The results will be that no one is able to decipher what is real news and what is not. The government gains complete control of what the public is allowed to know. Even provable facts are questioned and left in doubt.

Eliminating state run media leads to "government gaining complete control of what the public is allowed to know"?

Wow, that's some logic you got there.

Doing away with a partially publically financed media source is only part of the attack on the media. You are choosing to ignore the attacks being waged by trump on the private sector media. Distortion seems to be a pattern with you folks. You distorted my quote by misinterpreting what I posted.

No, you posted something nonsensical.

Wondering...were you similarly outraged when Obama attacked Fox, tapped the phones of the AP and went after specific reporters by hacking their personal info?

Hypocrisy, thy name is liberal.

 

[martybegan]

Not related at all. When Trump starts sending thugs to the NYT and MSNBC, or appoints monitors to said organization, then you would have a point.

Its early days yet.....Give the orange clown some more time; not even Mussolini had the press muted in a week.

If you are going to go Godwin, go full Godwin, don't half ass it with a minor league Fascist.

And may/could/might/supposedly do something does not an argument make.

Even if he had the idea to do so, why would Trump actively suppress the mainstream press anyway? They making themselves irrelevant all by themselves.

 

[Pete7469]

About goddamned time

I said that out loud before I clicked the link.

 

[martybegan]

Every wanna-be despot MUST have an enemy....For Mussolini it was the communists and socialists; for Hitler it was those Jewish bankers....and for Trump it will be that evil media (except for FOX, Breibart and Daily Caller, of course.)

The mainstream/left (redundant) media actually is against Trump and those who supported him. That is not even comparable to the German Nazi blame of Jews for everything.

 

[nat4900]

No, you posted something nonsensical.

Wondering...were you similarly outraged when Obama attacked Fox, tapped the phones of the AP and went after specific reporters by hacking their personal info?

Hypocrisy, thy name is liberal

When you got those "facts" out of your rectum, did it hurt much??

 

[Camp]

Historically, the first order of business for an authoritarian government is to neutralize the media and press. That is what trump is doing by attacking the media. The results will be that no one is able to decipher what is real news and what is not. The government gains complete control of what the public is allowed to know. Even provable facts are questioned and left in doubt.

Eliminating state run media leads to "government gaining complete control of what the public is allowed to know"?

Wow, that's some logic you got there.

Doing away with a partially publically financed media source is only part of the attack on the media. You are choosing to ignore the attacks being waged by trump on the private sector media. Distortion seems to be a pattern with you folks. You distorted my quote by misinterpreting what I posted.

No, you posted something nonsensical.

Wondering...were you similarly outraged when Obama attacked Fox, tapped the phones of the AP and went after specific reporters by hacking their personal info?

Hypocrisy, thy name is liberal.

So in your mind, if a person posts something you disagree with, you automatically have the privilege of taking it out of context and distorting it instead of addressing it in an honest academic way. Having no intellectual or academic capability to respond available, you distort and then deflect with the ...but...but...but Obama did something too escape and deflection.

 

[MordechaiGoodbud]

One by one, Trump dismantles and discredits every leftist propaganda station. The stations which, have fed us a bunch of propaganda using our own money taken by taxes. It's finally time to put an end to the parasitism and propaganda. If leftists want to hear how much someone agrees with their shitty opinions, then they better pay for it by themselves.


“The Trump Administration needs to reform and cut spending dramatically, and targeting waste like the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be a good first step in showing that the Trump Administration is serious about radically reforming the federal budget,” said Brian Darling, a former aide to Paul and a former staffer at the Heritage Foundation.

PBS/NPR In Panic: Trump Administration To Defund/Privatize

The new enlightenment has begun! "Win streak" is the term that best describe Trump's presidency so far.

Trump doesn't have the authority to cut NPR funding, you ignoramus.

Congress does.

 

[Norman]

Every wanna-be despot MUST have an enemy....For Mussolini it was the communists and socialists; for Hitler it was those Jewish bankers....and for Trump it will be that evil media (except for FOX, Breibart and Daily Caller, of course.)

Yep, for Trump it's the master propagandists and criminals, in short people like Mussolini, Hitler and so on. An enemy we should all unite to fight against.

 

[easyt65]

Historically, the first order of business for an authoritarian government is to neutralize the media and press. That is what trump is doing by attacking the media.

The media has totally discredited itself, and Trump is calling them on it. 'Fake News', 'All-In', Refusing to report news due to bias / agenda, etc....we finally have a President who is calling them out, although IMO this problem with the news has never been this bad before.

NPR, however, has been little more than a liberal propaganda / elitist media for decades now, and it is about time tax dollars were cut off from such a blatantly biased federal govt-funded organization. If liberals want so badly for it to remain on the air let them pull money out of their own pockets to pay for it.

 

[easyt65]

Trump doesn't have the authority to cut NPR funding, you ignoramus. Congress does.

And Congress is controlled by WHO again...?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Zappa once said that art paid for by the state is called "propaganda"

 

[SmokeALib]

DO IT.

 

[easyt65]

Zappa once said that art paid for by the state is called "propaganda"

When liberals defended a statue of the Virgin Mary covered in elephant dung as 'art' I knew they needed to be cut off....

 

[Meathead]

Historically, the first order of business for an authoritarian government is to neutralize the media and press. That is what trump is doing by attacking the media. The results will be that no one is able to decipher what is real news and what is not. The government gains complete control of what the public is allowed to know. Even provable facts are questioned and left in doubt.

Eliminating state run media leads to "government gaining complete control of what the public is allowed to know"?

Wow, that's some logic you got there.

Camp still blames Reagan for the collapse of government funding of Pravda and Izvestia.

 

[SmokeALib]

Historically, the first order of business for an authoritarian government is to neutralize the media and press. That is what trump is doing by attacking the media. The results will be that no one is able to decipher what is real news and what is not. The government gains complete control of what the public is allowed to know. Even provable facts are questioned and left in doubt.

Relax. You clowns can still get your misinformation from MSLSD and CNN.

 

[Camp]

Historically, the first order of business for an authoritarian government is to neutralize the media and press. That is what trump is doing by attacking the media. The results will be that no one is able to decipher what is real news and what is not. The government gains complete control of what the public is allowed to know. Even provable facts are questioned and left in doubt.

Relax. You clowns can still get your misinformation from MSLSD and CNN.

No one provides more misinformation than trump or his administration with provable lies every day.

 

[Iceweasel]

Historically, the first order of business for an authoritarian government is to neutralize the media and press. That is what trump is doing by attacking the media. The results will be that no one is able to decipher what is real news and what is not. The government gains complete control of what the public is allowed to know. Even provable facts are questioned and left in doubt.

By what stretch of the imagination is the press being neutralized? It would be nice if they are neutral but the msm has functioned as a Democrat propaganda outlet. I know leftist do not like propaganda hampered but no one is stopping CNN or ABC from their daily lies and smears.

 

[PK1]

We don't buy the schlock spewed by other country's state-run propaganda machines, we shouldn't have it here. The notion of "news" funded by the government is distasteful at best, tyrannical at worst.

WRONG.
Putin's gov funds RT News and it has been effective in duping naive Americans.
A CIA report cited their propaganda.
The US needs its own news outlets based on more objective reporting & educational-scientific issues to counter the Kremlin crap.

 

[SmokeALib]

Historically, the first order of business for an authoritarian government is to neutralize the media and press. That is what trump is doing by attacking the media. The results will be that no one is able to decipher what is real news and what is not. The government gains complete control of what the public is allowed to know. Even provable facts are questioned and left in doubt.

Relax. You clowns can still get your misinformation from MSLSD and CNN.

No one provides more misinformation than trump or his administration with provable lies every day.

Oh yeah? Have you been misinformed by Trump?
Is he not doing what he said he would?
Or are you just an idiot - a fool that picked his nose and his head caved in...