Sunday, June 22, 2025

Say no to "recission" of funding for PBS, NPR, etc.

"Recission" means taking back something that has already been given, promised, or approved. There's a big recission on the table now that would affect public funding for PBS, NPR, etc. Public media in the US is sometimes accused of having a liberal bias. Really it's a "bias" towards factual and culturally/scientifically enlightening, non-commercialized, non-sensationalized content that you can't get on for-profit networks like MSNBC or FOX. My favorite public media product these days is the PBS Eons YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@eons , which makes science-heavy yet hip paleontology and geology videos. In my opinion, stuff like that is well worth the pennies it takes to produce, and it would be a huge shame for it to be lost. I contacted my reps to advocate against the recission, and I recommend that other folks do, too. Thank you.

This is the link where you can take action. You can send an email with your name on it, but calling your representatives would probably be more likely to make a difference: https://protectmypublicmedia.org/

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