Michael Gove was very open about it when rebutting what was termed ‘Project Fear’ in the EU referendum here. (‘Project Fear’ was what the fuckwits termed the voices of sanity pointing out the downsides and risks of Brexit.)
“I think the people of this country have had enough of experts with organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.”
(Narrator: They were consistently getting it right.)
Yep, I saw Gov. Whitmer’s interview, she’s just great!
Who else remembers this little gem? Is it close to what the US and the world is going through now? Is it a prequel of sorts to “Idiocracy”, or just a different spin on things? And like “Idiocracy” it’s supposed to be a comedy. But then again, “MAS*H” was considered to be a comedy…so…?
I forgot Phil Hartman was in it! In fact, I’m going to include a cute story to contrast Phil (and many celeb men & the current potus): He & Jan Gross were doing an SNL sketch, something to do w/teens making out in the back seat of a car. While they were doing it, suddenly he pulled away - Jan asked what was wrong, and he said, “I’ve got a hard-on!” and then ran off the set!
Defund PBS? Who could have seen that coming? (/s)
They’re largely corporate and NGO and such funded anyway, no? And, as they constantly remind their audience, “listener funded.”
I forget the actual breakdown, but IIRC it’s around 20% or so federal funding? Not fatal, but not insignificant either.
Found this:
I’d, uh… like to buy a vowel.
From NPR’s article:
Underwriting has been an increasingly important part of public broadcasting finances in recent decades as federal and state governments have pulled back from such funding. On average, NPR receives about 1 percent of its funding directly from the federal government each year, according to publicly available materials. PBS receives 16 percent, according to a network spokesperson.
On average, NPR’s member stations get 10% of their funds from the U.S.-chartered Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Rural stations are generally among the most dependent on such federal largesse. As a result, public broadcasting has often enjoyed bipartisan support.
I would guess the proportion of funds from the feds for local, rural PBS stations is quite a bit higher.
Yeah, according to our local station, about 90 something percent of their funding comes from the local community… the rest is some combination of CPB and underwriting. 
If Tromp does cut fed funding, then maybe they’d feel less muzzled, freer to report honestly.
Yeah, I hope so. So much of the legacy media seems to be just… giving in. We need something that is more “mainstream” and nationally oriented that’s gonna keep up the pressure and report what’s actually happening factually.
But we might up our yearly donation if they cut CBP funding. Over the past decade, WABE expanded local coverage and they do a good job at that. For example, they have two politics reporters who spend the legislative season doing heavy coverage of what’s happening in ye old gold dome (and they do a podcast, too). And I really enjoy the show our local journalist Rose Scott does, where she covers a variety of topics that I find helpful… I appreciated their coverage of the Cop City stuff, since they actually talked to the activists and didn’t just accept whatever the cops/city government said. Several times, when she interviewed Mayor Dickens, she held his feet to the fire on that topic. I’m generally pretty satisfied with their coverage of the news locally.
And I just looked… it’s more like 85% is from the local community…
Yeah, all that shit that humans don’t really need, according to these nimrods - like art, books, health care, movies with decent plots, poetry - that sort of thing.
Why should the USA be any different from any other country that’s gone through/is currently going through? I mean it is inhabited by human beings…and you know what bastards they are.
This would be absolutely fucking hilarious, if it wasn’t so utterly tragic. I suspect this asshat may get in, and that will make my job, and that of every physician, immeasurably harder.
I just… wow.
Apparently, this went out to 13,000 NOAA employees:
