The Biggest Claim for Public Funding Is a Lie Exposed by the Texas Flood Response – RedState

Last weekend, Margaret Brennan was heard repeating a worn lobbying effort concerning the need for dollars of taxpayers ranging to public broadcasters. Speaking with Rand Paul, Brennan led to the point of discussion that seemed to have been written for her by Steve Inskeep. “”Public broadcasters provide critical emergency warnings to the government. If there is a storm, for example. Are you concerned with the fact that this type of cut will endanger people? “”

With the federal financial support for public broadcasters pinned upon the objective of launching ax this week, the groans will be constant. NPR has dug its greenhouses on the Federal Tray for months with a daring complaint made to keep its share of public generosity, but its main argument may have been overwhelmed with the recent flood event in Texas. It is an incredible reprimand that they have never planned.

With the emergence of Donald Trump 2.0, all kinds of federal spending discounts have been proposed. One of the targets that has received some of the most vocal resistance in the press was the suggested funding of public broadcasting. The prospect of drawing taxpayers from the points of sale rather obviously supported by national public radio and the public broadcasting service has been resuscitated regularly, only to refuse and keep expenses.

This week, after years (generations?) Attempts, we could see it happening to a conclusion. President Trump published a deadline of July 18 for a cancellation vote on expenses for this to be decided, and after having already cleaned the room, the Senate has until Friday to vote. During all the advantages of this vote, we saw a certain number of Congress hearings, has been pierced with endless coverage and an editorial on the vital nature of these outlets, and recently, all kinds of promised condemned if they lose their federal support.

This has prompted a curious argument to emerge in the past six months: public broadcasters save lives. If your head contracts like a dog hearing a harmonica, it is for a good reason. This argument came out of despair. For years, during any funded discussion, the press and the Democrats relied on an emotional section experienced on the hearts of the public. “They want to kill Big Bird!” “The Republicans are trying to expel Elmo!”

Hearing this, as expected, the parents and whoever grew up looking at “Sesame Street” had an instantaneous decline in mind in perspective. And largely, it worked. But as the outdated media complex has lost its traction with the public, and that digital points of sale and social media are now used as an antidote to propaganda machines, the truth has seized. “Sesame Street” is not under the aegis of PBS for a decade, because it belonged to At & T-Warner to show it on HBO-Max, and was recently acquired by Netflix. (The show is always allowed to operate on PBS, but not exclusively.)

Thus, with the Gambit Muppet out of the table, they had to resort to a new angle. Thus arrived the assertion that these entities provided an emergency service essential to people residing in the locations of the country’s outpost. Now, the logic dictates that there are very few locations where other distribution and / or internet access affiliates are not present and that only the NPR / PBS options exist, but this boastful has been so largely made that it is less attractive now than an offer of tote bag during the week of promise.

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And now this statement is also sterilized. When the sudden floods of July 4 struck the center of Texas, there was an increased interest in storm notices and the flood warnings to residents. While the press wanted to pin the responsibility of President Trump and his budget cuts for weather services, the truth has appeared that these advanced notifications had in fact been done in a timely manner. With the careful examination came this detail: the local NPR station was the last point of sale to publicize these warnings.

At Newsbusters, Craig Bannister provided this nugget concerning the Texas Public Radio (TPR) of exit and how it was considered much more than lax in detail of these tips and warnings.

• At least three flood alerts were issued between Thursday 11:03 am (Lobbying plaid of TPR) and 8:05 pm, when Texas public radio published its first announcement on Facebook of the Lightning Flood Warning.

• Friday morning, at 1:14 p.m., a flash flood warning reporting a “considerable” danger of the floods sparked wireless emergency alerts (WEAS) and meteorological radio notifications of the Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (NOAA), automatically interrupting regularly programmed weather emissions.

• Then, at 4:03 a.m. on Friday, July 4, the warning of the Écondations Écondations Éconds Nationale Weather Service was improved in an emergency of sudden floods. Neither the emergency alert nor the previous warning was reported on the Facebook or Instagram pages of TPR. Because Texas public radio has been inactive on X.com (formerly, Twitter) since 2023, subscribers have not been informed of the floods via this popular social media platform. When the emergency alert was issued, the TPR stations had just started the National “Morning Edition” program of PBS, which takes place from 4:00 to 9:00

This is for this valid statement to provide taxpayer from the public to the public of rescue and timely rescue emissions. But it gets worse.

While TPR did not put these alerts, it was active to get other opinions to the public. As indicated above, the station has published a lobbying advocacy to listeners concerning its threatened funding, at 11:00 am on Thursday, July 3.

This came 11 hours after the initial coverage of the sudden floods which was published by the National Weather Service. Three additional weather alerts were made before the TPR was publishing the first of its notifications, just after 8:00 p.m. on Thursday. Then, while several affiliates of the local distribution reported on the urgency of the floods, there is no proof to show that the TPR station has made ruptures or programming changes to cover the floods.

The first indications of this NPR affiliate, KTXI, publishing information on floods was a report of 1:30 p.m. on July 4 concerning some of the damage, and the first indication of flood warnings and the deaths that resulted were only carried out after 8:00 p.m. that evening – 19 hours after the flood warning for the region.

This should be all that is necessary to expose the vacancy of this complaint to defend public broadcasters. While they are trying to insist on the fact that they must remain supported with dollars taxpayers in order to save lives, all that has been shown is that when the emergencies were imminent alerts and saving lives, the outlet in Texas was concentrated on another emergency – losing its funding.

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