Trump's war against NPR and PBS notches win as Senate votes to kill funding | Hacker News Reader

Trump's war against NPR and PBS notches win as Senate votes to kill funding

arstechnica.com

23 pointsduxup13 comments

I know this is going to sound funny, but I'd almost rather them takeover NPR than remove it's funding. Or Better; create an NPR 2 MAGA Boogaloo or something.

As long as no one is forced to watch it. If you think there's a positive traditional family-oriented or otherwise conservative influence that is missing in the world, I dunno do a "Breitbart Street" for kids or something. Mr. Miller's Neighborhood. I hear all this talk about how the culture is too woke, but no attempt to actually promote an alternative positive message. Be the change you want to see in the world. (There's a lot of sarcasm in here, but I am serious about the underlying core)

They will survive just fine without government funding. They are both beloved and will be supported by private funding.

Survive just fine is an oxymoron.

No, you're not understanding what an oxymoron is. An oxymoron is a figure of speech where two contradictory or opposing terms are put together, like "jumbo shrimp" or "deafening silence."

In the phrase "survive just fine," the words "survive" and "just fine" are not contradictory. "Survive" means to continue existing or to endure a difficult situation, and "just fine" means adequately or without problems. Together, they suggest the organization will continue to exist without serious trouble, which is a coherent and logical statement—not contradictory.

I think I understand what an oxymoron is and does. How does "survive just fine" not meet criteria for oxymoronic statement, Mr. LLM?

"The Air India flight 171 passenger survived just fine after visiting the hospital."

> I think I understand what an oxymoron is and does

You clearly don't, or you wouldn't have mistakenly thought that phrase represented an oxymoron.

> "The Air India flight 171 passenger survived just fine after visiting the hospital."

No need to introduce a completely arbitrary sentence in some attempt to justify your mistake. Just accept that you were wrong and try not to make that mistake again. It's easy.

It may seem that way but your training data lacks the context.

You're just wrong and can't admit it to yourself. You have an ego problem.

So I'm not wrong about you not being human?

Survival indicates struggle. "Just fine" is the opposite of a struggle. Literary tropes are not black or white. Give some freedom to the readers of your comments.

It's a bot :)

According to NPR's statement, it only receives 1% of funding from the federal government.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/13/1250902337/npr-cpb-public-rad...

"Today, NPR receives only about 1% of its operating budget directly from the federal government. Other revenue includes donations, returns from its endowment and corporate sponsorship."

> As the Corporation for Public Broadcasting explains, "PBS WARN enables all public television stations to send WEAs [Wireless Emergency Alerts] out over their transmitters to provide a 'hardened, redundant' alternate path for the cellular companies' connection. Between January 1 and December 31, 2024, more than 11,000 WEAs issued by federal, state, and local authorities were transmitted over the PBS WARN system, a 30 percent increase over 2023. Public television stations save lives in their communities, even those who might never turn on a television."

So to be clear, the federal funding did not directly go to PBS programming, it went to member stations to maintain operations in rural areas. Those member stations could then purchase content from NPR or PBS.

The irony is the content put out by directly by PBS or NPR is some of the least controversial, most objective reporting available. It's the other content that local stations run themselves that generally has more of a tilt to it. (Such nuance is obviously lost to the rural politicians who want these voices gone altogether from their districts).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com