Brian Stelter's fake news, PBS & NPR edition
When CNN fired Brian Stelter, Greg Gutfeld and Sean Hannity were in tears. They'd lost their best (and easiest) punching bag. When Stelter got rehired by CNN, rumor has it that Gutfeld and Hannity sent CNN a Thank You card, thanking CNN for CNN's gift to them. Now that Stelter is back, he's back to his old tricks. Thisa week, he's written this article, which specializes in accepting PBS's statement as Gospel fact. The article opens by saying "Public television stations will be 'forced to make hard decisions in the weeks and months ahead,' PBS CEO Paula Kerger said Thursday, after lawmakers advanced a bill that cancels all the federal funding for the network and for NPR."
Forget this. If the CEO of PBS says that they'll be "forced to make hard decisions in the weeks and months ahead", I'd accept that as the truth. It isn't like the CEO of PBS would misrepresent their business interest. The CEO of PBS must be one of the most honest, altruistic people ever to walk the planet.
Radio and TV stations may need to lay off staffers and cut back on programming. Popular shows like "Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood" may reach fewer people. Big Bird of "Sesame Street" fame isn’t going away, but the financial system that supported him for decades is being stripped away.If the U.S. debt was $12,000,000,000,000 instead of $36,000,000,000,000 with aGDP of $30,000,000,000,000, this might not be a big deal. If the Biden administration and the Democrats hadn't spent money recklessly and caused historic inflation, this recission package might not have been required.
Unfortunately for PBS and NPR, the Democrat Trifecta spent like drunken sailors. Democrats are the people NPPR and PBS should be upset with.
That isn't what I'm most upset about. I'm upset with Stelter because he just accepted as fact information that a person with a highly visible conflict of interest handed him. Did Stelter check the truthfulness of the PBS CEO? If not, why didn't he? NPR's tale of woe sounds challenging:
The Democrats have funding mechanisms for all their other priorities. Why can't Democrats take money away from their anti-ICE or antisemitic mobs to pay for the money lost through recission?If you need subsidies to stay alive, shouldn't you rethink your business model? It isn't that I want NPR or PBS to go under. It's that I want them to become self-sustaining. That isn't unreasonable.
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