There is one word that summarizes the reason so many people support public media: trust. A strong, diverse base of grassroots advocates is essential to ensuring the retention of federal funding. One entity formed to unify that support is Protect My Public Media , a collaboration of local public radio and TV stations, program producers and distributors, listeners and viewers who support a strong public media in the United States. You can help by sharing your testimonial here — they will be used as a resource when meeting with policy makers in the coming months.
Click here to download a set of graphics you can share on social media about the value of PBS. FAQs Why does public broadcasting need federal funding? What is the CPB's role in public broadcasting? It is not a broadcaster, but a private corporation created by Congress in with two primary functions: Serve as a firewall between partisan politics and public broadcasting Help fund programming, stations and technology How much funding is appropriated to the CPB?
Originally, the Act was called the Public Television Act and was only targeted toward television. After several last-minute revisions, former U. Without this addition, NPR could not have been formed. In , NPR became the first media organization to broadcast from the U. Senate floor when it covered debates over the return of control over the Panama Canal to Panama.
In , NPR opened its first international office in London. In , NPR finished the construction of its satellite network to improve distribution of its content. From its founding until the early s, NPR was almost entirely dependent upon funding from the federal government through CPB. NPR steadily expanded its programming, staff, and size throughout the s and s, resulting in rising costs.
By the early s, NPR was running an unsustainable budget deficit. In , the U. CPB imposed new bylaws onto NPR to allow the managing board to have more oversight over discretionary spending. Rather than giving the bulk of its financing directly to NPR to be distributed to member stations, CPB began giving directly to member stations to purchase NPR content, a system that has continued to the present day. NPR paid off its debt in three years.
The organization steadily raised its funding from contributions and commercial deals to close its deficit. As the title indicates, this bill would have eliminated all direct federal funding for NPR as well as federal funding to sell or acquire NPR-based programming content.
The bill would have revised disaster relief law to include public broadcasting facilities, among other provisions. On July 11, , S. This bill was incorporated into H. On January 30, , Representative Lamborn introduced H. In an age of multiple cable channel options, digital radio, and computerized digital streaming, some ask whether there is a need for federal appropriations to support public broadcasting.
The array of commercial all-news radio and radio talk shows, many of which are also streamed on the Internet, provides various sources of news and opinion.
Supporters of public broadcasting argue that public radio and television broadcasters, free of commercial interruption, provide perhaps the last bastion of balanced and objective information, news, children's education, and entertainment in an era of a changing media landscape.
Still others contend that public broadcasting has lost much of its early impact since the media choices have grown so much over the last several decades and that the federal role in public broadcasting should be reevaluated as well.
Supporters of public broadcasting contend that public radio and public television provide education and news to many underserved parts of the American population.
Public broadcasters may provide this service to an underserved and less commercially attractive population that commercial broadcasters do not address.
For example, PBS broadcasting for children includes lessons in reading, counting, and spelling, subjects not normally found on commercial broadcasts. According to NPR Inc. The report was undertaken in response to language in the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of directing the CPB to provide a report to congressional appropriations committees on alternative sources of federal funding for public broadcasting stations.
In addition, 14 current sources of revenue streams already employed by public broadcasting, ranging from merchandise licensing to mobile device applications, were also analyzed as options to replace federal funding for public broadcasting. Still, some critics contend that the report substantiates criticisms of the public broadcasting model: required to compete with commercial television and radio broadcasters that also provide news and entertainment, many public broadcasters could not adapt to a changing media world that provides multiple sources of information and entertainment.
For these critics, if many public broadcasters struggle to operate with budget deficits even with federal funding available, what does that say about the need and viability of these stations in a multimedia world, or the ability of their audiences to sustain this business model going forward? Several important issues are facing congressional policymakers as they address federal appropriations for all forms of public broadcasting.
On the most fundamental level, many question the law that created the national public broadcasting system and whether the federal government should be in the "business" of providing general appropriations to CPB every year since They ask: is this still a relevant and appropriate role of the federal government? On a second level, some may contend that in an era of spiraling federal deficits, in which many if not all federal expenditures are being reexamined, appropriations for CPB should be reduced if not eliminated.
Underlying this position are concerns that the federal role, once so clear in , has been eclipsed in a multimedia Internet age; concerns that the size and scope of the federal government budget deficit requires significant cutbacks in many areas; and allegations that public broadcasting is not objective, balanced, or free of an ideological slant.
These questions revolve around whether federal funding for public broadcasting should be continued at its current level; whether the funding should be modified or reduced; whether the arrangement between the federal funding process and public broadcasting should be changed; or whether federal funding for public broadcasting should be eliminated.
Public broadcasting retains its strong supporters. As indicated in Table 1 , CPB has consistently received increasing federal appropriations since Some would contend that this demonstrates a general consensus among congressional policymakers that there is a federal role in public broadcasting.
In addition, public support of public radio and television broadcasting generally has been consistent as well. Supporters of a public broadcasting network system contend that local programming content is not determined by NPR Inc. And he fell, and then they very violently attacked him," Trump said during a briefing on Monday.
Rittenhouse has been condemned as a vigilante and murderer who unnecessarily took it upon himself to restore law and order during the Kenosha protests.
But he's gained support from Republicans, who defend his actions on the basis that the shooting was done in self-defense. John Pierce, his lawyer, told Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Monday that Rittenhouse was attempting to help protect businesses in Kenosha and was " percent" acting in self-defense. Trump hadn't weighed in to the calls to defund NPR because of the article, but his budgets from the past four years proposed cutting budgets to the CPB.
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