The Parliamentary Republican Party held a hearing to order public broadcasting, a familiar goal on Wednesday. Delivery of the Government Efficiency Committee led by Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene question The head of NPR and PBS, Complaints Pursuing political prejudice and “promoting the most radical leftwind position using taxpayer funds.”
One day later, President Donald Trump Squeak Posts on his truth social platform, “NPR and PBS, two terrible and completely prejudiced platforms (networks!) Must be immediately denied by parliament, and the Republican Party should not miss this opportunity to remove our country of this huge morale.
Attacking NPR and PBS, the home of Sesame Street, is not a new horizon on the right. Mark is not specific. In fact, the war with public broadcasters went back to decades and moved from the Republican to the Republican Party.
PBS and NPR partially supports funds A company for public broadcastingNon -profit organizations that taxpayers support funds. Programming on the network is sometimes supported by individuals, other non -profit organizations or trustees, as well as individual companies.
President Richard Nixon in the 1970s Opposite funds He refused a parliamentary law that included PBS and even the money to keep the network. By chance, PBS led the way to broadcast an untrusted guarantee of the water gate hearing, and eventually he resigned from the presidential position. At the time, viewers of commercial networks complained that the auditory scope had stopped regular programming, but complained that there were no networks such as C-SPAN. PBS was an non -commercial place to educate the public about the most serious problems.
President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s I tried to cut The Democratic Parliament voted for the cause properly, but public broadcasting funds. George W. BUSH and Trump (his first term) also tried to deny broadcasters.
In the 2012 presidential election, Republican candidate MITT ROMNEY joined the Crusaders for public media advertisement At the time, President Barack Obama. The advertisement argued that Romney introduced Big Bird despite Wall Street’s crimes during the Great recession, and taxpayers were funding the “Sesame Street.”
Romney is lost and a big bird remains.
But the Republican Party focuses on attacking PBS and NPR, and until it transcends ideological differences in the Republican Party for decades?
The big part of the reason is trust. The public media in the United States was a great success. In both radio and televisions (and current online), PBS and NPRs offer a wide range of content that are trusted by extensive Americans, and both services are very good for providing information without a company or political effect.
PBS for more than 22 years of polling Ranked As the most reliable agency in the United States. According to YouGov’s January poll, PBS has received higher praise than courts, commercial television and print publications, and even federal governments and parliament.
similarly, According to ~ Harris Interactive NPR was selected as the most reliable news media brand in the United States in late 2024.
PBS KIDS, a programming block with “SESESTISTITE”, is trusted by most parents (88%). YOUGOV poll. 90%of parents agreed that PBS children helped to prepare children for their success. Parents were also far away as the most educational media brand.
“SESAME Street” has been dealing with important topics for a long time. racialismIt is clear that this kind of prejudice is “wrong and unfair.”
In short, public broadcasters represent many conservative beliefs. The network supports accessible information, prioritizes education, and strives to produce opposite prejudice.
Conservatives are more useful as divided and larger people such as Greene and Trump than Big Bird, which promotes kindness and friendship.
That’s why the network has been attacked by a Republican leader for the following.
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But the leadership of rights does not come into contact with the United States about this topic. no way March poll At the PEW Research Center, more Americans support continuous funding for PBS and NPR (43%) rather than to remove federal funds (24%).
February polls In yougov Even Trump voters cherished the network, 65%said that PBS had a lack of funds or appropriately funded, and 72%cherished PBS’s educational contents.
Americans are firmly in the corner of Big Bird since the first appearance of the character. Republican I haven’t learned yet How to get to Sesumi Street.
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