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After Congress defunded ‘public’ radio and television, liberal nonprofits are scrambling to fund them. But they’re not scrambling very hard. The Knight Foundation, with assets of $2.6 billion and which hands out over $100 million annually, is ponying up a mere $10 million.
Paula Kerger, the president of PBS, alone earns $1.1 million. 5 other PBS execs make over half a million dollars. The Senior Vice President of DEI earns nearly $400,000. That $10 million would hardly even begin to cover the insanely inflated salaries of ‘public’ media executives.
Knight, and the MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (all names you’re likely to see in front and after PBS docs about how America was built on slavery) ponied up $37 million to compensate for what they estimate is $1.1 billion in funds.
During the BLM riots, the Ford Foundation underwrote BLM through the ‘Movement 4 Black Lives’, it sold $1 billion in bonds and announced it was pumping $180 million into racist organizations. Yet when it comes to the public media they claim to love so much, the Ford Foundation dug in its sofa cushions through its assets of $16.8 billion for loose change.
The Ford Foundation’s annual revenues are over half a billion dollars. If Ford wanted to, it could singlehandedly fund PBS and NPR into the next century. The MacArthur Foundation has total assets of $8.6 billion and doles out over a quarter billion a year and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has $13.7 billion in assets and annual revenues approaching $1 billion.
Together these liberal foundations have over $40 billion in assets and they put out a press release bragging about how they’re donating 0.0925% of their net worth to ‘public’ media.
I guess liberals don’t really want to save Big Bird after all.
All the whining about how PBS and NPR need money is a farce when Soros alone dropped around $300 million into the 2022 midterms. The Soros ‘Open Society Foundations’ spent $1.7 billion in 2023. If George and his spawn wanted to, they could fund NPR for the next decade and not even notice. Soros spent $400 million taking control of Audacy’s 200 radio stations.
Why won’t the old Hungarian war criminal save NPR and PBS? Because they’re worthless.
The people who listen to NPR and watch PBS are mostly the sort who already vote the Soros ticket. That’s also why Ford, Knight and MacArthur are offering a tepid response that is mostly focused on funding a few stations in ‘swing states’ where they can make a difference.
The huge foundations are putting most of their money into political organizing (often disguised as social justice) to radicalize and mobilize unaffiliated or unreliable voter groups. Wealthy old white liberals are not a priority which is why there’s no serious money going to ‘save’ PBS.
There’s nothing ‘public’ about public radio or television. It’s the entertainment of choice for 1% of the country that has a good deal of disposable income run by people with well-thumbed copies of Howard Zinn. It’s not representative of the public, it’s not run for the public or by the public, but it’s run by the sorts of people who romanticise everything from the Bolshevik takeover to Oct 7 for the benefit of an aging audience that knows more about the CCC than Stalin’s gulags.
The taxpayers should never have been on the hook for this perverse form of ‘public access’ that is about as democratic a medium as North Korea and the big foundations who sponsored the shows aren’t about to put serious money into subsidizing what amounts to a vanity project.
Local liberals have more than enough money to back their local PBS and NPR affiliates and huge operations like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are going to be just fine. And even if they’re not, the sorts of people who fund race riots across America have long term objectives that don’t involve Ken Burns documentaries or Rick Steve stumbling around Denmark.
Given a choice between subsidizing the destruction of America through documentaries aimed at retired liberal lawyers or race riots aimed at the sorts of people who will actually burn things down, the foundations showed they would donate mere millions to ‘public media’ and hundreds of millions to burning down the country. It’s simple radical revolutionary economic triage.
All the false appeals to empathy, the pretense that without billions in taxpayer subsidies, Sesame Street would go away, proved to be as hollow as progressive philanthropy.
It was never about Big Bird.
The yellow puppet is gonna be fine. Sesame Street has $559 million in assets and $187 million in revenues. Its CEO makes over $1 million a year, its president makes nearly as much and just in case you’re still worried, Sesame has a deal with Netflix to air episodes on the woke streaming platform that’s probably worth tens of millions like its previous deal with HBO.
Big Bird was just an avian shield for the real radical programming aimed at adults. Much like the teachers’ unions, PBS tried to take children hostage to steal a fortune from taxpayers. And when the scam was exposed, the big lefty money proved it didn’t care about Big Bird.
The farce now playing out in the media as foundations that could singlehandedly subsidize ‘public broadcasting’ scratch in their pockets for a few million and blame Trump because national taxpayers are no longer on the hook for their political propaganda shows their venal hypocrisy. Knight, Robert Wood Johnson, Ford and MacArthur are happy to donate just enough to have their names out front before programs, but they want to stick taxpayers with the bill. They won’t put serious money behind anything that’s not a paradigm changer like BLM.
Maybe they just don’t love Big Bird enough.
Soros and his Ilk want all leftists propaganda aired to the youth like Red Ted Turner did with Captain Planet One Child One Voice Network Earth and National Geographic Explorer
“Why Won’t Liberals Save Big Bird?
Big donors like Soros refuse to subsidize NPR and PBS”
Maybe it’s best not to give them the notion. then all of a sudden, these evil fiends will have the seeds of a major broadcast network all their own. Not that the major networks aren’t fellow travelers already. But still.
I had some respect for Ken Burns until he made a bullshit documentary on the Central Park Five.
The jogger had her life ruined and was physically disfigured, but that smug prick Burns trips all over himself to extoll her attackers.
Kinda makes me hope that what happened to Rick Morranis, happens to Burns. After Burns would regain consciousness from receiving a “Polar Bear Hunting” encounter, he’d have an ounce of empathy for the savage beating that nearly killed Trisha Meili.
Also; because low-life Al Sharpton staged vicious protests during the trial, Meili kept her identity secret for 14 years – the death threats & faulty press reporting were too exhaustive.
When was the last time I watched PBS? When I was finally done with Downton Abbey. I don’t care who funds the moribund network so long as it’s not my money.
MSM watchers are just surface dumb. They are mostly just brainwashed and annoying. PBS and NPR fans have a very deep faux intellect stupidity implanted in them. They are arrogant in the extreme, which I guess comes from listening to people spout smart sounding nonsense in British accents.
Undoubtedly Soros will find a better nefarious use for the funds he previously gave to NPR/PBS. Stay tuned.
Fatcat donors won’t help NPR and PBS for their mistaken belief that voters will react the way they did when Obama closed the National Parks.
Thank you for posting this!
Big Turd. Looking at the photo above I notice it has mascara and eyeliner. I don’t remember that when I was a kid. I don’t remember the effeminate white highlights on the forehead, either.
PBS (Pubie Bite Studios) has made Big Turd a lezbo.
You forgot the rainbow tie.
You’re such a Gaylord. How many dicks have you sucked today? Twenty? Thirty? A hundred? Your lips must be sore. Just admit you’re a faggot. Nobody really cares. You have public hair between your teeth and crabs on your tiny balls. That’s you and there’s no getting past that.
Chomo.
Pssst…mi heffy Jeffy – did you know, now hope you are sitting down, that there is an invention called, wait for it, wait for it, Color Tv!
I was too old for Sesame Street and Captain Kangaroo was my go to.
So I cannot be an expert anyway of Sesame Street, did Big Bird ever mention whether it was a boy or a girl?
I did see Jim Henson and his Muppets as a boy performing in my dad’s Lodge – Not all the Muppets – Of course that performance I saw Jim and his fellow Muppeteers working the Muppets – which sort of half ruined the focus on the Muppets but fascinating none the less. What a gig I thought.
Like PBS, Muppets transformed into commie, anti American, trans perversion and fake news – oh what lies they tell.
No body dissses mi heffy Jeffy – I most certainly don’t – My humor is marked and intended as good natured because I feel something off the guy – a good solid dude – Not that I am challenging you to walk outside into the alley of the bar – no I take it back, 10:30 tonight, you know that pub on the corner, yeah that one, I will be in the alley, if I am late, start without me.
I was thinking he looked weird too but then I remembered we didn’t have a color TV until I was about 12.
He’s borrowing your make up. But is anyone surprised?
Your obsession with all things gay is so typical for Muslim low T types like you, who can’t get laid unless they are raping somebody. Isn’t that what 3rd worlders do? But you are definitely good for a laugh.
Hey how’s that Huckabee project coming along, anyway.
They only launder tax payer $$, not theirs!!
When was the last time I watched PBS? It’s been a while.
When I was finally done with Downton Abbey. I don’t care who funds the moribund network so long as it’s not my money.
Also, dems want an issue, not a solution. Sacrifices must be made for the revolution. Big Bird is an expendable puppet bird shield.