Trump signs EO to defund PBS and NPR -

Wow ... this is truly sad. Makes one wonder just how much fraud and waste is ocurring in this program. The best way to facilitate fraud and waste is through a lack of financial and operational controls. This program needs to go the way of USAID.

"Independent auditors have declined to issue an opinion on AmeriCorps’ financial statements for the eighth year. They issued a disclaimer of opinion reporting 11 material weaknesses and two significant deficiencies and added three new recommendations. The auditors, however, verified that AmeriCorps took appropriate actions to close 20 of the 95 prior year recommendations. As a result of this audit, there are now 78 open recommendations. All eleven of the material weaknesses are recurring, three of them since FY 2017, five since FY 2018, one since FY 2021, and two since FY 2022. AmeriCorps included in its Annual Management Report a Statement of No Assurance, acknowledging that its system of internal controls does not currently provide the necessary level of assurance towards the effectiveness of internal control over operations, reporting, and compliance. This is the fifth consecutive year that AmeriCorps has issued a No Assurance statement. AmeriCorps acknowledged the disclaimer of opinion and expressed concurrence to six material weaknesses and two significant deficiencies. However, AmeriCorps did not concur with five material weaknesses. AmeriCorps did not specify with which material weaknesses it was in agreement or disagreement in its response to the report. AmeriCorps’ response is included in its entirety in Exhibit IV of the audit report. The 78 recommendations will remain open until corrective actions have been fully implemented."

Audit of AmeriCorps’ Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Financial Statements | AmeriCorps

 

We did our part for our local public media. I hope educated people who use NPR or PBS programming contribute. God Bless.

 

NPR is important for local news which people are forgetting how important local news can be

 

Couldn’t they get that from local tv stations?

 

Sinclair owned?

 

Sinclair owns some local stations but not all of them. And most local stories don’t have a political slant

 

I don’t think that is true, but ok.

edit: was busy making a NPR/PBS contribution… here is a biased article of course. I’m sure there are many counterpoints.



TV giant known for rightwing disinformation doubles down on its national news agenda

 

How many in those areas do not have cable, internet access, and/or cell phones for information and weather warnings? Further ... if those folks truly need some form of support for critical information ... why can't state government provide such for the truly isolated?

 

Funny, but remember that what is sometimes thought of as dead…

 

so you're thinking they own all local stations?

 

Oh boy… of course not.

 

PBS and NPR will be okay as the lost funding will be replaced with private donations from those needing that entertainment.

 

You do not think a lot of people get their news from applications on their phones, ie podcasts, news sites on browsers, emergency alerts, etc? I use to listen to CSPAN and NPR stations a lot before podcasts and audiobooks became readily available on phones but very rarely do now since other mediums are easily available.

 

Well, and people who distrust propaganda, which by definition is all that’s left after government decides what news is acceptable.