Assemblymember Chris Rogers: Cutting Public Media Is an Attack on the North Coast’s Voice
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Dear Friends,
Last week, Congressional Republicans and the Trump Administration agreed to slash $1 billion from public media funding nationwide. For the North Coast communities that depend on local radio, these cuts aren’t just numbers on a page — they’re an attack on the local reporting that keeps our North Coast communities connected, empowered, and informed – especially in an emergency.
Let’s be honest: this isn’t about saving money. It’s about silencing independent journalism as part of the Administration’s broader war on truth. When they gut public radio, they weaken the First Amendment and make it harder for our communities to hold anyone — including them — accountable.
I don’t always agree with everything said on air or printed in the news. But I know this: our democracy is stronger when our communities have access to independent reporting and investigative journalism. That’s why today, I’m asking you to join me by stepping up to support the stations that serve our region:
• KZYX (Mendocino)
• KMUD (Humboldt & Mendocino)
• KRCB (Sonoma)
• KQED (Bay Area)
• KHSU (Humboldt)
• KFUG (Del Norte)These cuts will hit local stations hard, and it’s up to us to keep their microphones on and their reporters in the field. If you value truth and transparency — and believe our North Coast voices deserve to be heard — please consider donating to one (or all) of these stations today.
In solidarity,
Assemblymember Chris Rogers
www.chrisrogersforassembly.com
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Just out of curiosity, do any of the stations listed Have independent investigative journalists that are doing big stories on our federal administration? I know there’s a couple local reporters that give reports on local events.
https://www.sfgate.com/northcoast/article/kmud-radio-funding-cuts-northern-california-20779294.php
“A war on truth”…
The cool kids who hung out at the campus station still get on the radio and play what they want to play…
If they say anything true, well, that’s really just their opinion, man…
Worry about THIS:
https://calmatters.org/health/2025/07/planned-parenthood-california-defunded/
“A war on women’s health and reproductive freedom”…
I’m pretty sure you’re still free to pay for your own abortions..
LOL; what a great point.
Do you remember that woman who needed an abortion because she was miscarrying here in Eureka….and St Joe’s sent her to Mad River because no, they don’t perform the operation even though her doctors said her life was in danger.
The issue wasn’t payment. The issue was that Providence didn’t think her life was in danger enough…
https://kymkemp.com/2024/10/01/attorney-general-bonta-sues-providence-over-draconian-hospital-policies-that-denied-emergency-abortion-care-to-humboldt-co-woman/
Balderdash.
Please, cut and paste directly from your link exactly where…
“her doctors said her life was in danger”…
What were her doctors names, and what EXACTLY did THEY say…???
It is kind of stunning that you read the news I produce without believing that I use facts.
Here’s the entire legal case complaint with details. https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025.04.01-Complaint.pdf
Here’s a screenshot of the relevant part. There are more relevant parts but I only have one life to live and arguing with someone determined to call me a liar over the last few weeks has pushed me past the point of answering you again until I get an apology.
Don’t bother addressing me again unless you include an apology below this comment. I’m tried of you directly attacking me and my morals. You may continue to do so because I believe in free speech and understand that the balance of power lies with me so I need to make sure I’m not overstepping. But this restraint has come at a personal cost of time and emotional energy I’m no longer willing to pay.
This may not suffice as an apology…
However, it is from today, and I will present it in my defense…
What, exactly do you expect me to apologize for…???
For saying, ”Balderdash”…???
Me apologizing would be an admission of guilt, of something undefined, that I therefore can’t possibly believe that I am guilty of…
The only thing I am guilty of is being of a strong desire of accuracy, and of holding accuracy to a very high standard…
Must I be forgiven for that…???
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/aug/29/judge-holds-st-joseph-health-prior-agreement-emerg/
This supports my assertion…
“Rockman said Providence St. Joseph deserves the right to present evidence before the court issues a preliminary injunction, and he tipped his hand to show what type of evidence the defense will provide. ➡️He cited a sworn declaration from Nusslock’s treating physician at St. Joseph Hospital, who determined that she was stable when she was discharged.⬅️ If that’s true, it would negate any allegations that the hospital violated the ESL in Nusslock’s case, Rockman said.”
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Blessings to you and your family…
It’s stunning to me that you would suggest that it’s me that struggles to understand things, questioning my intelligence, as if I was stupid in your mind, and that you openly question other unidentified people’s intelligence as well…
Maybe it’s you that should be issuing an apology instead of expecting one…
How do you figure that I am “determined to call you a liar over the past few weeks”…???
Was referring to current President Trump as former president Trump not incorrect…???
That inaccuracy remains to this day…
Im actually stunned by that…
As far as your claim…
“her doctors said her life was in danger”…
Setting aside momentarily the fact that you are now shifting to referring to a completely different document at a completely different, previously unmentioned link, unrelated to THIS article…
Are you referring to line 1, or line 9-12…???
That is neither a direct quote from her “doctors” nor is it to be found verbatim directly within your link…
Forgive me if I’m of the opinion that if someone says “her doctors said her life was in danger”, then by golly, that’s what is exactly verbatim what more than one of her doctors are expected to have literally said…
Lets not kid ourselves…
That she was at a high risk of hemorrhage and infection is unquestionable, and that THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HER DOCTOR, DR. MCGRAW, ACTUALLY SINGULARLY SAID, NO MORE AND NO LESS, is also unquestionable…
You corroborate Dr McGraw, ONLY, as Dr. Nusslock’s “doctors” plural…
Who is her other doctor necessary to corroborate your purported pluralization, regardless of what was said…???
Your evidence says ONLY that ONLY “Dr. McGraw noted that Anna was at a high risk for hemorrhage and infection.”
Dr. McGraw DID NOT SAY that “her life was in danger”, like you said, “her ➡️DOCTORS ⬅️ said…”
You claimed that more than one of “her doctors said her life was in danger, as if “they” as in and/or as if more than one of her doctors, (at least two) had CONCURRED and had ALL SAID, “her life was in danger”…
I asked you to provide proof that “they” had said that…
You provided proof of actually only ONE “doctor”, Dr McGraw, that actually proved only that testimony showed that Dr. McGraw, had “noted”, (not “said”) that Anna was at a high risk of hemorrhage and infection.”, NOT THAT, “her life was in danger.”, LIKE YOU SAID…
Again, who is the other doctor of Anna’s that you implied and spoke of indirectly, that you implied had ALSO said that “her life was in danger”…???
Because I’m not seeing “them”…
You provided proof that not even one of “her doctors said that her life was in danger”…
If you can’t admit that, don’t expect an apology from me, when it’s you that needs to properly acknowledge your error, and apologize if you feel that an apology from anyone is in order…
I was correct that her doctors at Providence did not say what you claimed that they said…
As far as lines 9-12, that Anna “understood”… … “the POSSIBLE danger of loss of her life” was NOT something that one or more of “her doctors” “said”…
Not even one of “her doctors” said what is spelled out in lines 9-12…
You have provided proof to corroborate my claim, not yours…
Thank you for proving my point…
I am NOT “determined to call you a liar”…
That’s your opinion.
You might feel that way, but I don’t…
If that is your very personal conclusion just because I question what I believe RHBB has said in error, like referring to Current President Trump as “former president Trump”, or that Anna Nusslock’s Providence “doctors said her life was in danger”, I can’t help that, unless you would expect me to accept as fact such things as RHBB saying “former President Trump”…
I recall someone else bringing exactly that up, only to have it corrected…
I am thoroughly convinced that whatever RHBB has claimed in error, has been inadvertantly, not intentionally, claimed in error, a slip of the tongue, or well, maybe just be something RHBB genuinely believes is true, that isn’t actually or necessarily true, and that simply being in error like that, would NOT be something that I would characterize as RHBB lying…
Just wrong, honestly…
Everyone makes mistakes…
Questioning questionable claims that I believe are in error, is not me being determined to call anyone a liar…
That is clearly a misunderstanding.
I won’t further respond to you if that’s what you wish…
Peace out…
I’m pretty sure that situation doesn’t apply to 99.9% of abortions, but okay, you have a point with that one.
However, that is an organization that never provided abortions to begin with, free or otherwise. We’re talking about planned parenthood here…
The first step to denying abortion care to a woman whose life depends on it is to make it inaccessible to those who can’t afford to pay out of pocket.
Defunding Planned Parenthood in California strips low-income patients—especially those in rural areas like ours—of access to basic reproductive health care, not just abortions but cancer screenings, STD testing, and contraception.
The people most affected are the poor, who can least afford more children but are now being forced to bear them anyway. And once that safety net is gone, we’ve seen what happens: hospitals like Providence get to decide who’s “sick enough” to deserve care.
It’s a slippery slope—and we’re already sliding down it.
Yeah and people get denied care for cancer and everything else too, the only difference is abortions are 100% avoidable, unless we are talking rape or in this case a medical emergency. St Joe’s has never provided abortion and our government defunding taxpayer funded abortion would have made no difference in that situation.
Nationwide this slope has already slipped thanks to Kavanaugh, Barrett and Gorsuch for misleading and likely lying before and during their CON-firmation hearings and to Collins and Murkowski even before the hearings.
Oh- are we talking about communication? Because yesterday I got nine spam phone calls, three spam emails and two spam texts to my phone. Thing was alerting all day with crap. Why don’t one of these well paid legislators do something about the mad proliferation of spam that is destroying our personal communication systems- our own phones!!
Mark as Spam:
Most email providers get smarter over time if you consistently mark spam.
2. Use filters or rules to auto-delete certain kinds of messages.
3. Never click unsubscribe in suspicious emails:
It can confirm to spammers your email is active.
Use call blocking apps. Silence unknown calls.
What Kris said.
Any modern cellular has spam call and text detection alerting “May be spam”.
Of course disregard if your comment was sarcasm.
They always sit on their hands and ignore a crisis.
Can you really claim it is independent journalism when it is always slanted to one party rather than just factual based? Todays journalism is based on where the money comes from, who makes the most noise, and the agenda of the person in charge.
I used to believe both parties had good points in their politics, but in today’s politics we see hate and division. No compromise, misleading information, and a push for normalizing bad behavior.
The politicians push party agendas instead of working on what will benefit the public as a whole. We have allowed political policy to take over our lives insyead of respecting and working with each other.
Take politics out of public broadcasting and get back to reporting all aspects of the communities, such as weather, community functions, and emergencies. Leave out blaming the opposing views of the other political party.
The media has moved away from journalism and become propaganda pushers. If you listen to MSM and Fox to get both sides of the story, it is almost hard to determine which story you are following and what is the real “fake news”.
We have too many hard core political party “commentators” and not enough unbiased journalists. Politics have ruined public broadcasting and reporting.
For real. It became especially apparent and shocking during the Covid drama. The leftist spin, Truth Gatekeeping and control tactics are insufferable! And now that so many of the blatant lies that were sold to us as “gospel truth” during that era have been proven patently false, do you think any of these outlets will be accountable and apologize or retract the dangerous b******* that they crammed down our throats? Of course not. They probably still believe every word of it! I still see people in their cars or outdoors with masks on 🙃
Except that neither NPR nor PBS lean as far to the Left as many claim.
Both actually rate near the center of the bias ratings.
They also both rate quite high in terms of accuracy and reliability.
https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive?utm_source=adfontesmedia&utm_medium=website
Ahhh, there we go. “They lean close to the center” but obviously are still leftists. Shot your entire argument down yourself. Since the taxpayers were funding their garbage, they have an obligation to be center and that’s it. So, they are now defunded. Oh well.
NPR and PBS are drone farmers sheparding along their hive of good little worker bee Democrat drones. But now, you have to pay out of your own pocket to get milked. It’s like paying somebody to punch you in the face for fun! Hee haw. Enjoi the milking.
It’s inconvenient that facts on nearly every political issue are in favor of the left.
Not every issue but most of them.
It’s as if some people base their beliefs upon facts
instead of inventing “facts” to support their beliefs.
Examples please?
Climate change.
“More than 99.9% of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is mainly caused by humans, according to a new survey of 88,125 climate-related studies.” https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/10/more-999-studies-agree-humans-caused-climate-change
The article talks about scepticism but I didn’t see any “invented facts”. It’s the nature of science to be sceptical.
98% of climatologists don’t want to be defunded. check out how much CO2 is human caused as compared o earth caused (oceans, plants, animals ect.) you might be surprised. this is a difference in ‘news reporting”, i.e. factual stuff, vs journalism, i.e editorialized opinion, mixed with ‘facts’. the truth is out there, keep searching.
For the umpteenth time, it’s not the Carbon that’s already part of the Carbon cycle that’s the problem. It’s the Carbon that is being added by digging it up from beneath the ground.
Even if i would believe that for arguments sake, it’s still part of the carbon cycle, and lookup the percentage it accounts for in total. <6%. it must be the bad part for sure.
It was, by definition, not part of the Carbon cycle when it was underground.
and CO2 levels in the atmosphere have risen 50% in the last century and a half- from 280 ppm to 420 ppm.
Sure Jed. The carbon cycle is mostly underground. Just in case you didn’t notice. Are those numbers from the local boomer bingo parlor game? Stick to single and double digits, they pay more.
Leaning left or right is in the eye of the beholder. The real problems are using tax money which creates a lever for political sway, creates personal relationships with politicians from the most supportive party. It creates pipelines for being used for propaganda. It discourages questioning. And expecting people to happy involuntarily supporting media they don’t trust exacerbates divisions. Public broadcasting has too cozy a relationship with one political party already as most of their employees are members and donate to one party. It has already been compromised by this but like most media see that as a virtue instead of a flaw.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/02/npr-issues-correction-after-claiming-hunter-biden-laptop-story-was-discredited-by-intelligence/
https://www.npr.org/2017/01/11/509265953/unconfirmed-reports-allege-collusion-between-russia-and-trump
In the Bible, the concepts of “left” and “right” carry significant symbolic meanings, often representing moral choices, judgment, and divine favor.
Right Side: The right side is frequently associated with blessing, power, and favor. For example, in Matthew 25:33, Jesus separates the righteous to His right hand during the final judgment, indicating their acceptance and reward: “He will put the sheep on His right”. The right hand is often seen as a position of honor and authority, as illustrated in Psalm 16:8, where the psalmist states, “I shall not be shaken, for He is at my right hand.”
Left Side: Conversely, the left side is often linked to judgment, weakness, or dishonor. In the same passage from Matthew 25, the wicked are placed on the left: “and the goats on the left”. This division signifies the eternal consequences of one’s actions and faith, with the left side representing those who reject God’s will.
The biblical references to left and right serve as powerful metaphors for moral choices and the consequences of those choices. The right side symbolizes righteousness and divine favor, while the left side often represents judgment and rejection. Understanding these concepts can provide deeper insight into biblical teachings and the nature of faith.
Pharoah with Crook and Flail
So the moral of the story is government funded Pravda is bad. Obviously. Meaning, npr and pbs suddenly went private. As a result, one of Bernies billionaires will come and buy it and the Democrats will be nice cheery Hilary again versus raging Joker maniac. Sounds great to me! Hope that happens! Please do!
Hahaha if you say so, do you listen to them?
NPR has 87 (D) editorial positions and 0 (R) editorial positions. Pretty left leaning figures it seems…..
Yet for reporting they manage to (as Jeb says above) “actually rate near the center of the bias ratings” — bias ratings measured independently.
NPR is a left leaning echo chamber, pretty much like LoCO….
I’d like to keep PBS, but NPR is completely leftist and unfair.
The majority of far left journalism sites don’t allow for fact checking. I went on outpost one time and fact checked the lies told by “Pastor Bethany” in her “message” and for presenting truth was immediately banned from the site. That’s definitely the leftist lunatic way of dealing with those who challenge untruth. This site is the only one that actually allows comments of this nature.
Pastor Bethany does an opinion piece.
And, if she does cite facts with which you disagree, you can check them yourself.
That’s why Al Gore invented the internet.
She claims to be presenting Biblical truth. I don’t need the internet (where all lies are published unchecked). All I need is Scripture. Apparently real Scripture is taboo on Outpost.
So you’re well versed in reading ancient Greek then?
Gen X is taking over, Jed. No more Russian Pravda and Rocket Man Radio rhetoric. Reality check!. Sit back and enjoi the magic carpet ride……We take care of our aunties and uncles, even the partisan raging, bitter ones. Give em a cup of chocolate chip ice cream and they exhibit extreme cheeriness!
The left has thrown fact checking out the door so they can spew their unsupported hatred and lies about President trump.
Being banned from LOCO is a right of passage for anyone with a scintilla of common sense or sass! 🏆 With that heavy and arbitrary ban hammer LOCO has curated a humorless, bonafide echo-chamber and snooze-fest they are so proud of.
NPR spews leftist drivel 24/7/365…
NPR rates even closer to the center than PBS News.
And, none of the stations mentioned in this article broadcast NPR 24/7.
It’s the harm that these cuts will cause to these local stations that is the crux of this press release.
Somehow the conversation got hijacked again by baseless rants against NPR.
You all are going to have to recalibrate what you consider “leftist drivel” when NPR’s nickname is “Nice Polite Republicans”.
You might ask yourself “Am I the one who has gone so far to the right I don’t realize that NPR is quite center of the road?” But then you’d actually have to have listened to NPR.
We just ask for the honest truth from NPR, but it’s usually slanted to the far left.
They can still maintain those ratings and “excellence “ you claim.
Folks that prefer that programming just need to dig deep to continue absorbing that programming. It’s really not that big of a deal.
“Give til it hurts!” Amy Goodman will appreciate you!
Our biased and corrupt lame stream media is the propaganda arm of the democrat party and is happy to spread their lies and misinformation. They’ve been spewing lies about President Trump since 2015. What will they do now that everything they spewed about Trump was outright lies coupled with the deep state lawfare. Don’t trust ABC, CBS, NBC or MSLSD. They’re after money not the truth.
Reality has a well known liberal bias -Stephen colbert
And what just happened to Steve Colbert. His biased comedy show was cancelled by CBS because it wasn’t making enough money. The ratings were very low because people are tired of left wing BS.
Ultimately broadcast FM has like analog tv become too inefficient of a use of spectrum, the push is from those who would want to use the last analog broadcast platform in a more efficient ( especially to their goals ) reimagined format, we are going to get Wi-Fi from space most likely and then some part of that will be like the recently phased out microsat that pushed data for free, wikpedian mostly as I recall, but data accessible for free from above on the public airspace and the rest for space bros. Not that this isn’t part of dark Donald’s cliff notes version that others guys playbook. I won’t spoiled it for those who haven’t read, but then again if your a student of reading who hasn’t?
I’m troubled by government funding of news outlets. It reminds me too much of Pravda, the Soviet news agency set up by the Bolshevists with Lenin in control of editorial oversight. It lends itself to becoming a propaganda outlet. The BBC is turning into just such a “news” source. I’m all for keeping these stations on the air but they should be funded privately.
Independent Media is ignoring the valuable resource they possess which is content.
Instead of a free handout from the federal government the goal should be gathering “Clicks” and ” “engagement” on multiple platforms to potentially generate way more money than the government ever handed you.
Monetizing a YouTube channel (or multiple channels for specific topics- news, human interest, local lore etc) is a smart place to start. If creators upload content daily it can be a significant income stream.
Adapt or perish.
independent media u make on your own for free and publish yourself, anything less by its nature is dependent on some means of production and access to platforms.
it’s thankless, targeted and hated work, and even if your doing good at it, I mean who mentions J.Chiv? That is someone who puts in work and does it himself, i see he isn’t eating out this bucket. I reserve my praise for those who hijack corporate spaces to cause discord amongst the herd.
RHBB is free homegrown independent media of the highest calibre.
Even John Chiv is “dependent on some means of production and access to platforms.”
If that were even faintly true, political press releases would not fill so much of its pages. And a whole section called “Cannabis Cache” would not exist. That is not to say it has no value. It has value in being a voice in the overall absence of voices. But still those touting a non-existent non-partisanship as a independence doesn’t work.
A lack of independence is a hallmark of any money making enterprise, even if it is unsuccessful at it. The most honest stand is to stop pretending it is. In this case acting as a funnel for Democrat propaganda by rationalizing it as “local” is disingenuous. That much reality would at least be an honest heads-up to readers.
Would you consider RHBB a funnel for Republican propaganda in the form of press releases from a local Republican administration?
IDK. I’ve never seen it happen. My best guess is that there would be a sudden policy change on this site and press releases would disappear.
Yabut, I’m not sure if you’re trying to help or just taking potshots, but I’ll address the substance either way.
First, Redheaded Blackbelt is independent media in the real, practical sense: I own it, I run it, I write good deal of it, I answer to no corporate parent or investor. That doesn’t mean I’m unbound by reality—I still have to pay for servers, reporting time, insurance, gear, and people’s work (including freelancers). It’s a small business, not a hobby.
Now, to specifics:
In short: Redheaded Blackbelt is homegrown, imperfect, and constantly evolving—but it’s independent. I’m not pretending to be nonpartisan in my feelings, but I try to be fair. There’s a difference. I absolutely post letters that I hate the position of the writer and, in articles, I do my best to portray other people’s positions fairly even when they differ from mine considerably.
Perhaps you are unaware that there are multiple liberals who revile RHBB for allowing the conservative position so much leeway. For a time, there was even a liberal website devoted to trying to get folks to boycott us.
This is a community effort, and I always appreciate constructive input to help reflect different perspectives better. That said…I can’t post press releases to reflect a Republican point of view in local politics if there are no elected Republican officials in our area to put them out.
“Now, to specifics:”
“1.Press Releases:”
“Yes, I often run political press releases.
They’re clearly labeled, and
➡️ MOST (though not as many as I would like) readers are smart enough ⬅️
to distinguish PR from reporting.”
-Kym Kemp-
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Hmmm…
SAY WHAT…!!!???
That’s simultaneously, both pointedly insulting, and, condescendingly self elevating…
Nice…!!!
So, in your opinion…
“…MOST, (though not as many as [YOU] would like), [RHBB] readers are smart enough…”…???
Interesting…
Fascinating, really…
What MINIMUM kind of Official State or Federal Certification and Licensure must one possess, in your mind, in order to legitimately become the Foremost Authority that is properly qualified to singlehandedly judge, compare, and/or contrast, people’s individual and/or collective level of intelligence…???
And, proper Education, Certification, and Licensure, notwithstanding, is it most appropriately a consentual arrangement, or is it a self appointed nonconsensual “oversight” position…
In other words, EVEN for the PROPERLY CREDENTIALED JUDGE, would it be professionally unethical to make condescending unprofessional intelligence assessments and judgements, which are wholely derived from “random associations” and subclinical observations in unprofessional non clinical settings…???
Because it smacks of malpractice, or at least reeks of condescendingly impersonating a certified psychological professional…
Maybe we are a bit unclear on the “control group” concept…???
Who might that be…???
If you are to properly assess anything IQ standard wise, related to RHBB and/or it’s readership, maybe you should first consider the level of IQ that is habitually drawn to the pages of RHBB, in the first place, as a standard, general rule, or at least properly identify the official IQ level that you are measuring by…
I get it, your saying you would “like” to have a greater ratio of ”smart enough” people engaging with your website…
That attitude seems counterintuitive and counterproductive…
That’s the kind of thing that would drive away the readers that were “smart enough”, in my opinion…
Have you properly considered how that might negatively affect your bottom line…???
When it comes to the popularity of RHBB, you must not be too worried about readers diminished views, if you are willing to openly, and quite condescendingly contend, for whatever chosen reason, that…
…”…not as many [RHBB] readers as [you] would like, are smart enough…”…
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“I absolutely…”
“…do my best to portray other people’s positions fairly even when they differ from mine considerably.”
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Really…???
I mean what’s NOT, “[You] ➡️ absolutely doing your best ⬅️ to portray other people’s positions FAIRLY when they differ from yours considerably…”,
…by INITIALLY saying,…
“…not as many [RHBB] readers as [you] would like, are smart enough…”,
…???
Well said
If they made even a rudimentary attempt to present more than one side of every story, I would support them fully. As it is, they are shameless purveyors of a “liberal agenda”, (whatever that means to you). Supporters of public radio (which I am and have been for a long time), ask yourself if they presented only a “conservative agenda” with as much zeal as they do now for the left, would you still support them?
You answered your last question with your question. PBS and NPR should be happy. They don’t need to play pretend games anymore about being non partisan (see Congressional 2025 testimony by NPR and PBS CEOs). It’s ok, good luck to them. Frontlines good. So are the Reggae, 60s70s era music, Opera, and Classic radio hours. They are now free to be themselves and earn-do business without having all tax paying citizens held hostage in terms of paying into their obvious Democrat Party apparatchik role.
Let’s be honest. Independent journalism is not on PBS or NPR. If it’s Independent journalism, where is the “Independent” in government funding? No… it’s just hideous the lies left wingers tell to try to force government spending on crap like this, but if a religious institution gets a grant it’s wrong? Yeah… keep preaching lies. Communist California will believe it as long as the far left tells about it.
Nothing “independent ” about NPR et al as such stations are mouthpieces for leftist/Marxist and certainly Democrat party politics. No attempt to be impartial or balanced. The taxpayer should not be funding far left propaganda, a simple fact that is above the heads of the treasonous “sanctuary city” crappy councils.
But its not balanced at all. Its completely left biased and full of misinformation
Are you talking about KMUD News? Or the personal opinions of callers, djs, and guests during other programming? It is community radio and is going to reflect the voice of the community which is overwhelmingly liberal. There are conservatives on All Sides Now regularly. Lots of anti-vaxxers voice their opinions. I’ve heard some very “not leftist” discussions taking place on air while engineering. It is a compilation of voices and ideas as wildly different as the community we live in. I’ll also say theres a difference in a leaning than reputable. Being a right leaning site/radio doesn’t mean it they aren’t reputable no more than a left leaning site/radio isn’t reputable.
The Wall Street Journal for example leans right but is an excellent source.
I’ve lived locally for 67 years and haven’t watched or listened to any of these public broadcast stations for the past 15 years because they obviously have an agenda and push it constantly. If they’re able to survive on their own worth and popularity then good for them. If they need handouts from taxpayers then there is no need for them.
Um, NPR & PBS are non-profit news sources. Main stream media is for-profit Corporate news sources. Which tends to be unbiased?
Both?…
I haven’t been told to concern myself with the couple hundred billion doled out every year in corporate welfare so I won’t. Multinational. Corporate. Welfare. Concern yourself with whatever you’re told to concern yourself with is what I like to say!