Hallelujah! No More Tax Dollars For NPR And PBS
Every weekday morning it’s the same: My alarm goes off at 4, I jump in the shower, throw on my clothes and head out the door. By 5 I’m in the studio, doing show prep and getting together drops for that day’s show.
At 6 a.m. we’re in our places, behind our microphones, headsets on when the red “ON AIR” light flashes and The Kerry and Mike Show goes live for the next three hours as Mike Imprevento and I try to entertain and inform our audience.
Yes, we’re conservative. And lots of companies are eager to market their products to our audience.
Our show is made possible by our sponsors who pay to advertise during our three hours. The Sinclair sales reps hustle all day selling our show to local and national businesses.
Meanwhile, 4.3 miles across town in the WHRO studios, some radio host - I have no idea who - is going through the same motions.
The big difference? His or her show is sponsored in part by taxpayers.
Yep, the government takes MY money and tosses it to my competitor, regardless of ratings or the quality of their product.
Is this fair? Hell, no.
It wouldn't be fair even if they had excellent shows that were unbiased. But public broadcasting is woke and soporific, with the hosts uniformly adopting a creepy vocal style that’s supposed to suggest gravitas, but doesn’t.
I’ve always been amused by newspaper editorialists - lefties, all of them of course - who laud the value of public broadcasting.
It’s a matter of life and death they shriek. (Sure it is, assuming rural folk lack cell phones and are listening to public radio at 2 a.m.)
If you bump into any of these knotheads be sure to ask how they’d feel about a national public newspaper that would take their tax dollars to compete with them in THEIR industry. A government newspaper. Why not?
There’s really no difference.
For years I’ve been beating the defund NPR and PBS drum. Finally, in the wee hours of Thursday morning the Senate did just that, clawing back the $1.1 billion earmarked for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that controls both public radio and TV.
If the House votes yes on the bill - and I pray they will - tax dollars will disappear and public radio and TV will have to support themselves the old-fashioned capitalistic way: By putting out a product people that advertisers will support.
Shoot, we at WTAR and WNIS do it. Every. Damn. Day.
Let’s see how many of these public broadcasting companies collapse when they aren’t feeding on tax dollars.
Their annual begathons are going to be epic! Lefties are going to have to dip into their wallets to keep these left-wing propaganda broadcasts on life support.
UPDATE: The House voted early Friday morning to approve the $9 billion in cuts, including the termination of funds to public broadcasting. Good news!
