Jeff Nesbit, Contrarian - Stripping NPR and PBS of federal funding is just the first step in the Trump/GOP master plan for both public broadcasting networks. What the Trump White House will almost certainly propose next should send deep shivers down the spines of everyone in America.
According to Project 2025 – the Heritage Foundation’s policy and political blueprint that the Trump administration has hewed to religiously since Trump’s inauguration to a second term in January—defunding NPR and PBS was just the first step.
The second shoe to fall would be to reclassify both NPR and PBS and strip both public broadcasters of their noncommercial, educational status .
“They (NPR and PBS stations) should no longer be qualified as noncommercial education stations (NCE stations), which they clearly no longer are,” Project 2025 said in its blueprint, which advocates stripping NPR stations of their status and place on the FM radio dial...
Project 2025 authors say the next step after defunding NPR and PBS is to strip them of their educational, non-commercial status. Trump should “instruct the FCC to exclude the stations affiliated with PBS and NPR from the NCE denomination and the privileges that come with it,” wrote the Project 2025 authors.
Such a move, which Trump would likely do by executive order—almost certainly triggering legal action that would land at the Supreme Court—could force NPR off its current FM dial frequencies that are protected and held specifically for non-commercial, educational stations and programming.
And then? What would most likely replace NPR stations on those FM dial frequencies should they be stripped of their protected status as public broadcasters? More
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