Pbs is not being privatised. These are private donations.
Non-paywall
https://archive.ph/2026.04.17-021604/https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/npr-donations-113-million-after-trump-federal-funding-cuts/
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Smodphan2 days ago
-16
Cuts are step one. It'll become just not worth the cost now that the product has degraded, snd the. It will be privatized or dissolved.
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Silly-avocatoe2 days ago
+19
Pbs has always run on a mix of donations, grants and charitable instruments. The pulling of govt funding was deemed illegal by the court last month, but its unknown what will transpire from that. The receipt of this grant in itself does not indicate it will be privatised.
It should be obvious that privatisation would mean the entity cant be non profit. Therefore they wouldn't be able to receive donations like this.
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Smodphan2 days ago
-15
What does that have to do with anything that I said? Im giving the intend for defunding it from the Fed.
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BigSkyLittleCoat2 days ago
+2
Sorry - you can’t follow how his post relates to what you said?
Do you need help? There are some tests that maybe you should take.
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Splashy012 days ago
+2
If you don’t know I’m not going to tell you.
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Smodphan2 days ago
-2
So you dont know, got it
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Agent_McNasty332 days ago
+4
More like they can give you information but can’t make you understand the words in front of you.
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Silly-avocatoe1 day ago
+1
Nothing you said both times is valid or relevant. Being privatized or dissolved are not similar options and aren't logical responses to hearing about an organization getting donations.
The decision related to your "intend for defunding it from the Fed" has already been deemed unconstitutional, which I mentioned, so that's up in the air.
So nothing you said had anything to do with this article, or my response.
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Careless_Hat9602 days ago
+2
Exactly 💯this is how everything gets ruined 😡
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UsefulCrab41812 days ago
+125
Turns out privatizing everything was the goal the whole time.
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bforce13132 days ago
+17
Always is for conservatives, then they get a cushy job after on a board
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InvestigatorOk70152 days ago
-4
For conservatives? We just pretending the dems dont have a neoliberalism issue?
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bforce13132 days ago
+1
To be more correct yes, neo-liberal as a whole. More obvious by conservatives, especially in Canada.
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8ROWNLYKWYD1 day ago
+1
Could you be a bit more vague?
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emmany632 days ago
+4
This isn’t “privatizing.” They’re donations to a 501c(3) from private donors. Very different.
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uzzmak2 days ago
+51
We're headed towards socialgarchy folks.
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-Motor-2 days ago
+20
A society reliant on the donations of the wealthy is a poorly run society.
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ohaicookies2 days ago
+9
Please, trickle down on me.
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iveseensomethings822 days ago
+3
It will probably smell like urine
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squidvett2 days ago
+1
Trickle on me daddy!
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-Sofa-King-Vote2 days ago
+7
America would prefer spending $1b a day on an unnecessary war, thank you
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No_Customer_842 days ago
+28
Oh great, public radio is getting privatized. What could go wrong.
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isomae2 days ago
+13
Dave Chappelle was probably one of them- given he saved the NPR station is his town…
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/15/nx-s1-5785161/dave-chappelle-public-media-free-speech-comedy
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chibebe52 days ago
+4
We can save this country if more rich people invested in the people who made them rich. It costs nothing to be kind
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Sacred_Timeline2 days ago
+1
No, but it isn’t profitable enough for the greedy.
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HealthyInstance91822 days ago
+4
It’s great that they’re getting funding, but it’s concerning that it concentrates the funding between 2 donors
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tooclosetocall822 days ago
+1
Yeah this isn’t good news. They basically just bought a news outlet.
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Finally-Peace23222 days ago
+2
Donate to public broadcasting. Just a few dollars a month.
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Libinky2 days ago
+2
Thank you to someone’s! Generosity and commitment to press freedom!
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1jb11 day ago
+1
Thanks for supporting NPR, one of the few places to get accurate news. We all need to be sustaining members to keep them going.
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Stlouisken2 days ago
Unfortunately some in Congress will see these beneficial donations as “reasons” to continue to cut or deny funding.
“Someone else will pay for it!”
I’m thankful these donors stepped up though. Hopefully the next administration will renew the focus of funding NPR.
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angelabaraka1 day ago
Maybe I can read 1 article without them asking for money now.
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poopySkillet2 days ago
-1
NPR is looking more and more like PBR. Might as well be
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tooclosetocall822 days ago
+4
There’s nothing more hipster than drinking a PBR while listening to NPR.
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urbnwtch2 days ago
-9
That’s the way it should be
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Omatzus2 days ago
+3
Public broadcasting is a common good and should be supported by a democratic government
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urbnwtch2 days ago
+1
No offense people but we don’t live in a democracy anymore.
If we want truth we will have to find a way to fund it.
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Careless_Hat9602 days ago
+3
Found the libertarian ☝️
Have you ever wondered what a truly free place would look like?
No taxes.
No zoning laws.
No state interference.
No obligations beyond those you voluntarily accept.
No government telling you what to do, where to live, or how to live.
For a group of American libertarians in the early 2000s, this wasn’t just a thought experiment. It was a plan. And they believed they had found the perfect place to make it real.
That place was Grafton, New Hampshire.
What followed became one of the strangest political experiments in modern American history—a real-world attempt to abolish the state at the town level. It ended in crime, fires, lawsuits, social collapse, and ultimately something no one predicted.
Not taxes.
Not federal intervention.
Not even internal ideological conflict.
It ended because of bears.
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