Voice of America and Radio Marti shutdown.

[a727469]

If they were a bastion of right-wing propaganda, would you be advocating so hard for it to be shut down? This is the issue I have with politics. No matter the party, it seems that they want to silence opposing views. The left trying to shut down conservative radio while the right tries to shut down CPB. The best part is then both sides start screaming censorship. I guess hipocriscy is prevelant on both sides and neither acknowledges their own.

The answer is “yes” if it was tax payer funded

 

[a727469]

How has Sesame Street gone full Woke? Was Big Bird out protesting something? I think I have missed this conspiricy

No, not Big Bird or full woke.. my son loved him. I think you know the answer.

 

[mmckenna]

No, not Big Bird or full woke.. my son loved him. I think you know the answer.

I don't.
I'd love to hear your definition of "woke" and how it applies in this discussion about communications.

 

[a727469]

Radio silence. You are correct this is not a political website. Sorry for bringing it up I will let others fight it out. My basic point is that I do not think we should fund any left or right leaning communications media. VOA and PBS fall into that category. I would say the same if we were funding Fox News etc.

 

[T680]

If they were a bastion of right-wing propaganda, would you be advocating so hard for it to be shut down? This is the issue I have with politics. No matter the party, it seems that they want to silence opposing views. The left trying to shut down conservative radio while the right tries to shut down CPB. The best part is then both sides start screaming censorship. I guess hipocriscy is prevelant on both sides and neither acknowledges their own.

I haven't heard cries from the left to shut down radical right wing radio, but I have heard mentions of holding the broadcasters responsible for broadcasting lies.
Or alternative facts as they call them. The idea of responsibility is what got Fox to testify that no reasonable person would assume their "news" department was being truthful in their broadcasts. Now candidates can spew lies like "they're eating the pets" and get elected because there's no need to worry about being responsible for them or the broadcasters.

Newspapers used to separate the news and opinion pieces, and so did broadcasting for a while when integrity was more important.

Radio Free Europe was shut down today, inspite of the lack of the Congressional action required to do this legally. This fits in with the restrictions on access for legitimate media, the silencing of VOA as well as the isolationist policies coming out of Washington. With all the money we're going to save here we'll be able to bail out some of the farmers who had contracts to grow food for USAID that got cancelled.

 

[T680]

Radio silence. You are correct this is not a political website. Sorry for bringing it up I will let others fight it out. My basic point is that I do not think we should fund any left or right leaning communications media. VOA and PBS fall into that category. I would say the same if we were funding Fox News etc.

The alternative to having either a robust free press or an objective national news source like CPB used to be before conservatives tried to silence them is the media that operate on the fringe now in their race to the bottom. There's no responsibility there as they preach to the choir in their echo chambers, not even after the first of the lawsuits against Fox for slandering one of the voting machine companies finally finished. It's the outrageous that brings in the audience there not the objectivity.

I hear the same stuff on shortwave too. Brother Stair and his living cohorts are usually the worked up about something that involves, fear guilt and a request for donations at some point. An objective, fact based news source is a welcome alternative to them.

 

[KevinC]

We're done. Feel free to find a political forum to further discuss.