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The targets are the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and, by extension, PBS television network, NPR and 1,500 broadcast outlets across the country, including Chicago’s WBEZ and WTTW. Chicago Public Media owns WBEZ and the Sun-Times.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Addition by subtraction for the IL and Federal taxpayers is the desired result.
NPR gets 1% from confiscated taxpayer money? They won’t miss it. PBS gets 15% of it’s budget from confiscated taxpayer funds. Ok. If we Chumbolones had to eat years of Bidenflation higher than that, PBS can do without these funds. WBEZ will barely feel a 5% budget cut. WTTW can charge more for Geoff Baer’s videos and make up the 11% of missing confiscated cash. We taxpayers will no longer be forced to pay for what amounts to in-kind donations to the Democrat Party and the Climate Religion. There are plenty of commercial networks that perform the same functions currently… Read more »
A free press is one that does not have to bend to government for funding. Let CPB, PBS, NPR, and newspapers that no one reads find their own way independent of government handouts.
Not likely their base could be monetized. “Herbal tea sales soar!”. Lots of partisan commentary is available without charge. Fox is self-supporting. Perhaps Soros and Hollywood can team up and have an IPO. OR how about high-power transmitters in Havana and Montreal?
Long overdue. I do watch PBS and we are subscription members. That’s the way it should be. Those of us who want to watch and pay support it- not the taxpayer. My real problem is with Frontline- sometimes it has good information, at other times it is a political advertisement for the Left. PBS NewsHour is just plain .Under MacNeil/Lehrer it was solid. Since then, a joke that is not funny.
One of the things that astounds me the most about NPR and PBS was in this year’s late March Congressional hearings “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the Heads of NPR and PBS Accountable”. Katherine Maher, NPR CEO completely denied any bias in NPR’s news reporting and appeared baffled by the questions and comments from Republican congressmen. She denied and conveniently “had no memory” of a litany of past leftist, socialist, racist, Woke and DEI reporting, tweets, commentary, etc. She was completely gobsmacked. Since the November elections she had nearly FOUR months to inact changes at NPR and prepare for this inevitable congressional… Read more »
The fact that NPR didn’t fire her immediately is sufficient cause in itself to end funding for it.
Its also notable that NPR is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization that constantly engages in partisan politics. That is legally forbidden for such organizations. NPR needs to be stripped of it’s tax exempt status and pay its fair share of taxes. Isn’t “fair share” tax payments something always harped by the socialist left? Then NPR, live your mantra and step up to the plate. In fact the IRS should claw back a few decades of missing tax payments from these grifters.
If they’re so broke why is WBEZ on a hiring spree? (https://www.builtinchicago.org/company/wbez-chicago)….w jobs ranging from $125k to $260K…Mark/Ted you could apply for the ‘Race Class & Communities (RCC) Senior Editor’ (https://www.builtinchicago.org/job/race-cass-communities-rcc-senior-editor/4728426), ha-ha!!
Mark, you could apply for ‘Race Class & Communities (RCC) Senior Editor’ gig, get rejected for being an old straight white guy ( just like me) and then file lawsuit claiming discrimination. I’m sure ITLA would be happy to help (NOT!)
If they were smart they truly would hire somebody like me who gives a fair platform to all sides, like we do here. We post their stuff all the time; WBEZ essentially boycotts us.
Destroy them.
“Oh noes, what will America’s rural farmers do without their local NPR station’s crop reports!”, lol…
Tune in to RFDTV.