America's Media Scam

“I did not come here to lead lambs. I came here to awaken lions.” —Javier Milei, Argentine President

By Robin Itzler

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Public TV and Radio: Why are taxpayers paying?

In 1967, Congress passed the Public Broadcasting Act that President Lyndon Johnson signed into law. It established guidelines for educational non-commercial broadcasting on television and radio. At that time, there were limited TV signals with most TVs receiving channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13. 

Congress created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which established the Public Broadcasting Network (PBS) for television and National Public Radio (NPR) for radio.

In 1970, PBS went on the air with Julia Child’s The French Chef as its first show. (Didn’t we all want to cook French food?) Other outstanding PBS shows include Sesame Street, Masterpiece Theatre, NewsHour, Antiques Roadshow, A Capitol Fourth and Downton Abbey.

National Public Radio (NPR) began broadcasting in 1971. Its first broadcast was live coverage of the Senate discussing the ongoing Vietnam War.  There are no commercials allowed on public broadcasting stations because it’s prohibited by law. Instead, companies underwrite programs and promote their product or service without encouraging viewers or listeners to make a purchase.

Today’s Question!

Should American taxpayers continue to pay for any part of public television or radio when there are now hundreds of choices through many platforms? This is especially important since PBS and NPS consistently have leftist bias.

The new House subcommittee calls itself Delivering on Government Efficiency so that its acronym is the same as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency: DOGE. Chair Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene pointed out the left-leaning biases in her letters to the CEOs of PBS and NPR when she asked them to testify in front of the House DOGE committee next month.

New meaning of the acronym DOGE -- Democrats Outraged at Getting Exposed 

 

The conservative news watchdog Media Research Center said last week that Wikipedia blacklists right leaning news sources. (Are you surprised?) 

 

For example:

1. Wikipedia shows the Washington Examiner as “generally reliable.” 
2. Wikipedia states that Newsbusters and Media Research Center are deemed as “generally unreliable.” 

The report stated: 

 

 “Wikipedia effectively blocks 100% of right-leaning media sources — the ones more likely to give fair treatment to the majority in Congress as well as to incoming officials to the Trump administration. On the contrary, only 16% of left-wing media sources fail to win Wikipedia’s stamp of approval.” 

 

To share your thoughts with Wikipedia: Email (media): press@wikimedia.org Phone: 415-839-6885 Write: 1 Montgomery Street, # 1600, San Francisco, CA 94104