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FCC Opens Investigation into NPR and PBS

b-turner said:
Government is always creating an issue that gets everyone riled up. While attention is diverted, they do something much more significant while the smaller issue gets everyone's attention. Not saying this isn't a big deal but my question is what else are they doing?
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AP and Reuters are giving us partial clues on the White House for reasons that got them listed with "Limited Access" to White House Press Pool. Here are their recent articles that basically escalated the issues why they were tagged with "Limited Access" by the White House.

Trump's White House launches COVID website that criticizes WHO, Fauci and Biden - https://www.reuters.com/business/he...e-that-criticizes-who-fauci-biden-2025-04-18/


apnews.com

Trump targets ‘Anonymous’ author and former top cybersecurity official in escalation of retribution

President Donald Trump is intensifying his efforts to punish his critics by signing a pair of memoranda directing the Justice Department to investigate two officials from his first administration and stripping them of any security clearances they may have.
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current.org

CPB sues Trump over attempted firing of board members - Current

The lawsuit said board members Laura G. Ross, Diane Kaplan and Tom Rothman received an email saying that their positions were terminated.
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Update CPB sues the Trump Administration for everything seen here.

CPB is suing President Trump and other administration officials over an email that aimed to terminate three of its board members.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., said that board members Laura G. Ross, Diane Kaplan and Tom Rothman received emails Monday from the deputy director of presidential personnel for the executive office of the president that said their positions at CPB were terminated.

CPB and the board members are asking the court to declare that the email has no legal effect and to issue a temporary restraining order.

The parties have been ordered to appear in court at 4 p.m. Tuesday.
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A reminder that the CEO of CPB is a member of the repub party, was first nominated by Bush, and renominated by the current president.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Charitable organizations, which include religious ones, have always been excepted from such taxes. Any organization that has no shareholders and which distributes no money to individuals won't pay taxes, anyway. In fact, a for profit company that has a nonprofitable year will not pay, either.

Legally, a religious radio station or one owned by Pacifica have the same federal income tax exemption status, just as non-profit educational institutions that have classrooms or even radio stations or TV stations do.
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Non-profit corporations are tax-exempt. Not all religious stations are owned by non-profits. The largest, for example, Salem Media, is a for profit corporation. Pacifica is non-profit corporation and its owned stations qualify for CPB funding, which is not limited to NPR member stations.
 
I cant say what I want to or I'd get fired.

One of the CPB members Trump is trying to fire has deep deep ties to Alaska, as her son is the COO of a native owned FM and a native network along with her late husband was a massive force in radio in alaska, esp. public radio.
 
Perhaps the administration is running into roadblocks in its attempt to defund. So Plan B might be to do what it did with the Kennedy Center. Fire the current board and replace them with ideologues.
 
www.pbs.org

PBS CEO weighs in on the potential impact of cutting public media funding

The Trump administration is expected to ask Congress to rescind more than $1 billion of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the congressionally-created body through which NPR and PBS get federal funding, including for this program. The CPB is also suing the administration...
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The CEO of PBS appears on PBS Newshour to respond to the issues at CPB. Yes this is the same stuff we seen when the CEO of NPR had to appear on one of their shows related to the congressional hearings they had to appear in.
 
Jean Luc said:
Non-profit corporations are tax-exempt. Not all religious stations are owned by non-profits. The largest, for example, Salem Media, is a for profit corporation.
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Salem sold the FM Christian music formatted stations. Nearly all of what they have left is either conservative talk or brokered.
Jean Luc said:
Pacifica is non-profit corporation and its owned stations qualify for CPB funding, which is not limited to NPR member stations.
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There are some conditions to CPB funding that all stations must meet to get assistance. I'm guessing that Pacifica, perhaps due to its very strange management structure, does not qualify. And I believe I read long in the past that they would not accept Federal Government money anyway.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Salem sold the FM Christian music formatted stations. Nearly all of what they have left is either conservative talk or brokered.

There are some conditions to CPB funding that all stations must meet to get assistance. I'm guessing that Pacifica, perhaps due to its very strange management structure, does not qualify. And I believe I read long in the past that they would not accept Federal Government money anyway.
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While the Pacifica network has accepted CPB money in the past (I put a link about it in another thread if I remember correctly), it is not receiving CPB money now. That said, I believe that Houston's KPFT-FM , a Pacifica-owned station in Houston, Texas, may still be getting some CPB funding. The last time I looked, their programming schedule included some programs from other public radio suppliers, including NPR.

One other note. Some NPR affiliates do carry some Pacifica programming. The most notable in this area is Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now," which is currently aired over several NPR news and music outlets including KRWG (and network) in Las Cruces, NM, and KCBX-FM (and network) in San Luis Obispo, California.
 
ted chittenden said:
Some NPR affiliates do carry some Pacifica programming. The most notable in this area is Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now,"
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Democracy Now originated at Pacifica, but is now independent. They also don't accept government or corporate funding:

As an independent news program, Democracy Now! is audience-supported, which means that our editorial independence is never compromised by corporate or government interests. Since our founding in 1996, Democracy Now! has held steadfast to our policy of not accepting government funding, corporate sponsorship, underwriting or advertising revenue.
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Democracy Now is available to all stations on the Public Radio interconnection system, which is managed by NPR, and supported by CPB. This interconnection system would also be affected by the loss of CPB funding.
 
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