GINGRICH PUBLIC MEDIA worse yet?

 Trump's angry demand to DEFUND public media after it publicized Signal app screw up might have little noticable effect for viewers and listeners because ever since the Reagan era when vocal conservative critics of taxpayers subsidizing the "one sided" opinions of these networks gained traction and federal subsidies were first slashed. 

 Both NPR and PBS have relied heavily on private foundation funding and so-called "sponsorships" aka COMMERCIAL ADS! 

Public radio especially NPR is now in practice "COMMERCIAL PUBLIC RADIO"  or "GINGRICH COMMERCIAL PUBLIC RADIO" it has SO many monotonous advertisements particularly during afternoons that some formerly loyal listeners switch to alternative radio media or turn off the volume entirely to save wasted electricity & gain five minutes or more of peace & calm!  

 These latter reactions are exactly what conservative critics want to have happen by "de-funding" NPR of federal support.  To reduce the listener audience of  pro "liberal, Democrat" media voices! 

Since the words SUPPORTED BY and SUPPORT are used so constantly on NPR stations it is almost a challenge to see how many times I can repeat the word "support" during NPR ad breaks (Terry Gross - "short break"  every ten minutes!)  

So that while repeating the word I fail to hear any of the advertising message words during my continuous chant of "SUPPORT"!  

So minus federal funding public media will not immediately die but just be even harder to listen to for those intolerant of commercial & verbal monotony.  Loyal supporters of NPR will become the same as those of traditional commercial media who are thankful to anybody funding the stations. 

ITS NPR PLEDGE SEASON AGAIN

 REMEMBER WITHOUT ALL YOU LISTENER SUSTAINERS 

WE could never provide all those monotonous advertisements for your amusement because you are our "Nielson ratings" providers!  

Without you our advertisers (we'd rather call them "underwriters") would have no target markets to pitch their products and services to!  

And while we will never admit to you sustainers that your continued support may have REPLACED ONE OR MORE monotonous commercials this month honestly if we did we might get even more sustainers and have no more space for our loyal annoying ads!  

You know like the never changing MATH JERKS , 25 million pederasts, No clues A. I., etc etc.

Even though commercial public media started as a Right wing conspiracy we at NPR have grown so accustomed to endless ads we're actually fond of them and so greatly enjoy bringing them to you our wealthy listeners that we would never, ever call them anything negative such as annoying or monotonous!

SO BE SURE TO VISIT OUR MANY SPONSORS AND TELL THEM YOU HEARD THEM ON NPR, PBS or your local stations!  - Tell them NEWT SENT YOU! 

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO ANOTHER VICTIM OF REPUBLICAN WAR ON THE U.S. QUALITY OF LIFE .

It's almost SPRING again and among other seasonal rituals is my local NPR now heavily commercialized "Public" radio station's first big funding drive of the year where they continuously beg listeners to donate money, used cars, estates or their free time to SUPPORT the station's programming. Immediately following each begging monologue our robot like AD LADY blares out the same four words "SUPPORTED BY" ..... "AND FROM"........... followed by a chain of wordy, often monotonous commercial spots repeated predictably on the dot EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES day in and day out.

Always prefaced by "Listeners" who supposedly are still considered important contributors but, judging by the deluge of commercial spots,  seem to only have the function of providing "ratings" to attract MORE potential commercial "underwriters" .   I am old enough to remember when PUBLIC BROADCASTING was commercial free or was able to get by with only a few corporate and foundation ads which didn't detract (and DISTRACT) from the listening or viewing experience.

Then the Congressional Republican activists began their assault on "liberal bias" in PBS and NPR and argued successfully against most FEDERAL funding supporting the public network'

 high quality programming.  Since then (Newt Gingrich and Jesse Helms) the TV and radio stations have had to seek other sources of financial support from many foundations and increasingly from commercial advertising the same demon which has polluted so much of Western culture, identity and the democratic process itself. (The suspect behind the Brexit and Trump disasters by schooling the public to crave instant gratification in everything, expect life to be "quick and easy" and the right to demand whatever they desire whenever they desire it)