Monthly Archives: March 2025

Chief executives of NPR and PBS faced questions yesterday in Congressional hearing [ or Republican media stunt to deflect attention from the Signalgate disclosure  showing Secretary of Defense Hegseth’s revelation of detailed classified information war plans in an unsecured chat app with an Atlantic journalist as part of the group? –  AutoCrat] as Congress considers legislation prohibiting federal funding for the public broadcasters. About a quarter of U.S. adults (24%) say Congress should remove federal funding from NPR and PBS, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted March 10-16.* A larger share (43%) say NPR and PBS should continue to receive funding from the federal government, while 33% say they are not sure.

“The funding structures for NPR and PBS are complicated, and much of their revenue comes from non-government sources like member donations and corporate sponsorships. But the proposed bill would ban all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which has received $535 million annually in recent federal budgets. The CPB helps to fund NPR and PBS both directly and through individual local public media stations, many of which pay NPR and PBS in the form of membership or programming fees,” PEW observed. Continue reading →