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FCC Probe Into NPR, PBS Denounced as 'Attack on the Freedom of the Press'. (www.commondreams.org)
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"The FCC chair is clearly undertaking an effort to bully and intimidate independent journalism, which is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes where democracy is under siege," said one critic.

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[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I’m usually not big on hate and it seems like a lot of wasted effort. And I can generally understand where people are coming from even if I don’t agree with them.

But not this guy. I fucking hate him. I have never hated a person more in my entire life. He is the most useless piece of the most vile excrement and I will relish the day he is “shuffled off his mortal coil”.

[-] Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

Him and Elon need to go. Yesterday.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Honestly Elon scares me a little more. He’s not a complete moron (don’t get me wrong he’s close) and can easily manipulate the other dude.

In my opinion, I’m not sure this country will last 4 years of this. I had forgotten the daily rage I felt in his first term and this seems worse. And we are less than three months in. And god forbid RFK is confirmed and we have another pandemic. It will not end well.

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

We are less than three weeks in.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah I meant to type weeks. But it already feels like months so I guess my brain “corrected” it.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

This is part of the reason the Covid years felt so long and dissociative

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago

Trump is destruction and retribution.

That’s all he’s been doing.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

He also sells off all the broken peices of our society to his rich owners.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago

This is the slowest fucking death I could have ever imagined enduring

[-] franklin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

I can't wait for all of the republicans at work to be told what to think. I'll enjoy hearing how they try to sell me on PBS being biased.

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[-] fallowseed@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

sadly, nothing new-- the last administration was directly funding and covering for israel's extermination campaign- well over 200 journalists killed in the last year.. but yes, this is more of the same in a more domestic and less murderous sense.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago

🤡

[-] fallowseed@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

i expect to get ratio'd for bringing any semblence of balance to the discussion here. i'm no trump apologist, but democrats still have a lot to answer for, too.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 53 points 1 week ago

we are like 11 days in and have already become more officially fascist than not, and you think the painfully tiresome wHaTaBoUt bullshit is "balance" because you say it is? GTFO

[-] fallowseed@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

well, you can just downvote me, i guess. free country, innit?

[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, 5 day old account.

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[-] spooky2092 32 points 1 week ago

i'm no trump apologist

Yes you are. Anytime you say 'both sides are the same', you're just excusing the ways this administration is making things so much worse.

The Democrats suck, but saying they're both the same despite drastic differences in magnitude is carrying water for trump to minimize the changes they're making.

[-] fallowseed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

no, i'm not. i'm sick of the democrats only having energy when they're out of power-- they chose to support genocide and bypass democracy to appoint their defacto choice for successor.

[-] spooky2092 22 points 1 week ago

Yes, you are. It's fine to take them to task, but don't minimize the shit that's going on now with that dismissive and objectively incorrect bullshit. It makes you look ignorant and uninformed about things when you incorrectly say they're the same when they're clearly much worse.

But whatever, I'm sick of arguing with BoTh SiDeS bullshit people. Bye.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Oh they've taken a step further than 'both sides are the same.' In order to support their argument, they are claiming in another part of this thread that Gaza has no people in it. They are actually trying to claim that Israel has killed literally every Palestinian in Gaza (presumably with Biden's help) in order to avoid blaming the current administration for anything.

[-] spooky2092 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm really not surprised, these people didn't seem super honest from the start. I'm just at the point where I call people on bullshit and block when they try to justify accelerationist or cryptofascist shit.

E: LOL mfer is tried to tone police the conversation when you called them out. Good on you for keeping on these people and showing just how unserious and obviously trolling they are.

[-] AfricanGrey@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

They don't really care. It's all a scapegoat to not vote, bury their heads in the sand, and pretend they have moral high ground.

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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

i'm no trump apologist,

Yes you are

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[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

And why do you feel balance is the most important thing right now?

[-] fallowseed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

"the most important thing" excuse me? don't put words in my mouth.

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Because it's the only thing you mentioned. Don't take me for a fool.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

Folks? This is the imperial boomerang. What we do overseas comes home!

Israel is the laboratory. What they test there will come back to us eventually. Do not be shocked when Trump drone strikes a "migrant caravan" or something.

[-] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

"I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials," Carr wrote. "I have asked the FCC's Enforcement Bureau, with assistance from the FCC's Media Bureau, to initiate an investigation into the underwriting announcements and related policies of NPR, PBS, and their broadcast member stations."

Such an investigation is long overdue. My local NPR station broadcasts nothing but commercials.

[-] jj122@lemmings.world 30 points 1 week ago

Is this sarcasm? Sponsorships are not the same as ads.

[-] jason@discuss.online 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's got to be. Listening to NPR has spoiled me to the point where I can't listen to regular music stations anymore because of the commercials.

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[-] Drusas@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago

I listen to NPR all the time and I have never once heard a commercial.

[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

When is someone going to go full Designated Survivor on Trump and his dipshit cronies?

[-] sillybread@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Sad day for everyone.

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