While not directly tech related, Ars has an interesting article about the fact that NPR and PBS could be defunded by congress if the supposed investigation proves successful.
The problem here, is that there is really no evidence except for something about 1967 that is talked about, and that’s before my time.
That paragraph talking about 1967 says:
For your awareness, I will be providing a copy of this letter to relevant Members of Congress because I believe this FCC investigation may prove relevant to an ongoing legislative debate. In particular, Congress is actively considering whether to stop requiring taxpayers to subsidize NPR and PBS programming. For my own part, I do not see a reason why Congress should continue sending taxpayer dollars to NPR and PBS given the changes in the media marketplace since the passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.
Why would this be a problem now? Again, there is no evidence I can see that this is a problem.
The FCC’s Democratic commissioners, Anna Gomez and Geoffrey Starks, issued statements denouncing the investigation. “This appears to be yet another Administration effort to weaponize the power of the FCC. The FCC has no business intimidating and silencing broadcast media,” Gomez said.
If you’re interested in the matter, please feel free to check out the full article which is titled Trump’s FCC chair investigates NPR and PBS, urges Congress to defund them and have fun making sense of it.
I would lovbe to pull this apart but the article makes no sense enough for me to do that.
We’ll be in touch!