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Our attempt to soft-shoe fascism didn’t work, much to our surprise and chagrin. We now ask you, dear Blue MAGA, to remunerate us with the necessary funding to continue to provide you the pablum you’ve come to rely upon to nourish your hashtag resist mindset.

I know that it's a drop in the bucket, but I've now set up a monthly donation for my local NPR station.

It’s so good that NPR has been defunded. No more socialist marks narrative being pushed on all of us at our expense. Funny how certain people in media are getting fired now the USA ID is gone. Winning.

NPR has been Nice Polite Republicans for years.

A quarter are probably bots or not active, but those of us that are ...are also loudly voicing how annoyed we are with their bullshit normalizing treatment of this admin

Thank you my goodness

How'd sucking Trump's micropenis during the election work out for ya?

Their reporting is very both-sided; to a fault. Their strength has been in some of their podcasts, e.g., This American Like had some great coverage of a man in Gaza dealing with ethnic cleansing raids. They should try to focus on hard hitting investigative reporting more.

So sad. This is what Carney / Harper want for Canada.

We already pay for this with our tax dollars. We just need to get rid of the corrupt self-serving pedophile in the White House and his cabinet of billionaires, who have the wrong values.

I miss CBC (they used to be on my cable in Tacoma).

No, you never once stood up for disabled combat veterans.

NPR is no better than corporate news like CNN or FOX. You just pander to whoever your audience is with the selected facts and turn that into a misleading narrative. It’s not that you all out right lie, you just strategically leave out important parts of the whole truth.

Did you just both-sides your own demise? This is why I stopped supporting you.

I'll consider it if you vow to stop unwarranted "bothsidesism" reporting in your news programs that seemed to increase about a decade ago to appease those who wanted to defund you. Facts are just facts. No need to report someone's alternative facts & propaganda for the sake of "fairness."

Done

Yeah. I won't make my yearly donation again and wrote to them about it. Would've doubled it had they shown courage. Pretty sure people with more funds than me would have done the same.

Give it up, people. Essential workers.

If you register as a charity, donors can get a tax receipt while also reducing the taxes available to chump's donors.

@papst-ny.bsky.social

You could start by not being the “Nice Polite Republicans” and hold the Trump Administration accountable. “Public media has been defunded” By who? Name them. The view from nowhere approach to journalism is what got you here.

If you'll start doing real digging into climate change, the genocide in Gaza, and the Epstein files (since you're no longer beholden to any special interests) I'll be very happy to donate!

Defunded by whom?

If we all contribute $50, will you stop sanewashing that dementia-addled twat?

Get your head out of the sand

A free press has to be run by free people. Not a prisoner to greed and power.

I love this thread 💞

If YOU'RE hurting, imagine what people one month from "homeless" are enduring. Thirty years of big business strangling the people's government, and you helped them carry the ball right up to the end zone. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS BUILDING CONCENTRATION CAMPS! AND MAKING 'CHILD RAPE' OKAY!

I’m proud to financially support NPR.

You don't have democracy.

I hate to say I told you so, but... 🔥

On it.

How's that sanewashing and both-sidesing working out for you now, eh? "Free press." Tch.

Talk to taco felon trump

If you would have only allowed conservative or alternative voices or opinions and subject matter and not gone full commie you would still get federal funding. But alas you stuck to a singular leftist activist point of view.

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There are plenty left-leaning businesses you can sell advertising to

Just upped my monthly donation to #HoustonPublicMedia. 💪🏼💪🏼

Desperately want to support PBS and literally thousands of worthy sources, journalists and nonprofits but I just can’t afford it. We need the wealthy to step up. I don’t see that happening.

Then why did he defund it?

They know, but are pointing out the weakness of the headline, etc

NPR does donation drives every year, I thought it was always public donations that paid for this… how much of it was coming from the government?

I was thinking of doing this until I heard NPR's "unbiased" coverage of Trump last week. Journalism without opinions isn't journalism, it's just reporting. If I was running NPR, I'd be mad as hell and after blood. But CBS, NPR, ABC WaPo have all capitulated. Sunk cost fallacy rules. 5th estate wins.

There is no such thing, never has been.

Frustrating you didn’t think about that before 11/5/24.

Can Public media provide a level news that would attract our attention and viewership and not be heavily opinionated with the stories? Not be in a rush to be first with a story. Tell it honestly and with care. That has to be the future of news. All of the fear tactics are overplayed by many

Honest question. You guys were were given a ridiculous amount of money in some old lady's will. What happened to that money?

The centrist didn’t get you gay rights dude. That was us progressive left activists.

Gave $75. To stop dictatorship. Defunding is outrageous. All you cheap bast—ds out there- Send in a few dollars-I’m on fixed income— Jim Sullivan Below photo Bridge of Flowers Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts

Hit up the million/billionaires.

freedom for journalists/media to work in US: rsf.org/en/index First step to fascism is to stop free media.

I feel like NPR has been squandering this concept lately. Journalistic integrity is essential to democracy and yet NPR has decided that most headlines should just regurgitate POSPOTUS lies.

Donated

Hope you get your funding back.

Don't donate to the Dumoratic arm of the Airways!

This could be the best thing for NPR. A chance to break free and evolve into something newer and stronger.

Stand up for democracy instead of bowing to a dictator.

I've moved my donation from NPR to the real journalists at ProPublica and 404media

Important resource but y’all need to fix the part of the system that money can’t fix.

On the other hand, you're like a plantation slave which has suddenly had their chains knocked off. Say what you want to from now on. And tell it like it is. As public supporters, all we expect in return is honest news, not opinion. Opinions are our job as citizens.

Did you just use free press and donate now in the same post?

Trump defunded it.

I gave to WBEZ.

Already did. Then doubled it.

I support: KALW KCSM KQED

Isn’t it great? It’s such a great app and so underrated.

You think about dummy

daily allowing bad faith actors a nationwide bullhorn with no pushback l

You mean COVERING UP for Trump.

NPR, along with most legacy media, treats what is happening as politics as usual, led by unorthodox but otherwise rational people. In the year 2025, if you are publishing an article and the source is "Trump said so", your outlet deserves to fail and you deserve bankruptcy. There is NO excuse.

Accurately quoting Trump: NPR Public Editor

Having a spokesperson from the Heritage Foundation defending the military presence in LA and basically giving him the floor.

You’re retarded.

Oh my, can I know who defunded the public media in the USA, please? I am curious as an outsider.

I donate monthly!!

I donated yesterday. I can't make it monthly because I don't know what my finances will look like from day to day, let alone month to month! But I will continue to give, even if it's a single dollar, to keep our free press alive!!!

I would but you've lost my trust

Right, your editorial staff ratio of libs vs conservatives: 87:1. You will not be hear me crack open the wallet.

Essential to the Democratic party right now.

No media should be funded by government. This is good for free press

I’d feel better about supporting if, just as an example, you didn’t say ICE is “enforcing immigration law” when they’re actually breaking the law, racially profiling and violating the rights of citizens. Reporting accurately is what I used to expect from you.

wut

Malfunctioning Bot has entered the chat.

Hardly. NPR is " nice polite republicans"

You lost the biggest supporter when you intentionally suppressed information on the genocide in Gaza while shielding those who perpetrated the crimes. You and @pbsnews.org should be shuttered.

I just had to turn off WNYC (which I do donate to monthly) because #NPR correspondents were all "Trump says." It's been 10 years. We're still supposed to believe he can get a deal done in a day while mostly playing golf?

No, a free press that boldly calls out authoritarianism is essential to democracy. The rest of the media are only essential to corporate profits.

Why not take it to Republicans' who cut your funds? The rest of us are barely hanging on.

Although npr too , has made some questionable choices lately. It's usually still a decent source of info

Will you stop bending the knee to Trump?

This. And even now they cower, refusing to name who’s responsible for defunding them, all the while begging for donations in the name of a fearless press.

Stand up and push back against this administration and oligarchs and I am happy to donate. Don’t bow down and I will donate. Bend the knee and I’m out. We need media that will stand against tyranny. Do that and I will donate. Until then-fuck off.

Turns out capitulating to fascists the way you did last year doesn’t actually work. Who could’ve guessed? (Everyone)

Support your local station

Was the press really free if the press wasn't allowed to humanize Palestinians in Gaza until recently, with many journalists coming out and saying they were literally silenced on this subject or forced to stick to a narrative? And why do most of the stations follow the same script? What free press?

We'd like to know how our 'gifts' are to be used- or if we can request how...

Doesn’t feel good when people make up lies, attack you, and they boycott you, huh? Now you get a bit of what you do to Israel

The right always hated you. You catered to them and lost the left. Now you have nothing.

I have an automatic monthly deduction.

Well I'm here to tell you that you should be biased against rapists and racists and misogynists and fascists! Even if they're rich or famous or hold positions of power. I'm outraged that the political party you bent over backward so as not to offend has kicked you to the gutter! Why aren't you?

Soooo...How'd we get here then?

Sooooo, who defunded you? Say it loud with your full chest, folks. You can do it.

I am a big supporter of npr but you need to reconsider $500k salaries. It looks bad....

Let the people you love pay for it.