Time To CANCEL Expensive, Fake News like NPR and PBS

Chris argues why NPR and PBS should be defunded, citing inflated executive salaries, outdated operations, and liberal bias. He highlights his own experiences with PBS, the inefficiency of these organizations, and why taxpayer dollars shouldn't sustain them anymore. Markowski challenges the notion that shows like Sesame Street need public funding, emphasizing how the private market can easily sustain popular programming. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Cancel NPR, PBS. They gotta go, and quite frankly, they
should have been kicked to the curb along long time ago.
I just got a list of some of the compensation
some of these people that work for the public broadcasting

(00:38):
now the president CEO Wow, five hundred and fifty thousand,
senior host four hundred and ninety thousand, senior hosts four
hundred and forty thousand, another host four hundred and forty thousand,
another host four hundred and thirty thousand. I can go
on and on and on. It's a great government work

(00:59):
if you can get it. None of these organizations should
be around anymore. And I don't want to hear the
nonsense about saving Big Bird. All right, Big Bird ain't
going anywhere Sasame Street will be just fine without NPR
and PBS, make no bones about it. Somebody will pick

(01:19):
it up, somebody will air somewhere if people want to
watch it. This is this has been a ruse on
the American people for a long time. You know. Obviously
a few years ago you had the big expos where
you had insiders basically talking about the massive liberal bias
within these organizations. It goes back further than that. I'll

(01:43):
give you my experience with NPR, PBS, well PBS in particular,
back in the day, Back in the day when television
networks gave a damn about the way it looked when
they had guests on the program. I would have to

(02:03):
go to my This is when I again, I was
living in Florida. This is it's going back two thousand
and five to like, you know, two thy and twelve.
I would go on a regular basis when IVER had
to do CNN or whatever news network I was on,
go to w EDU and Tampa. It's the big public

(02:25):
broadcasting center in Tampa. And you go in there and
it's massive, massive sound stages, production stages, massive building, and
they would have the high end cameras and backdrops and

(02:45):
everything like that. When do guest appearances. Now networks don't care.
Now you got a zoom camera, got a Michael good
to go, they don't care. It doesn't make any difference anymore.
It's amazing that whole zoom and COVID thing changed everything.
So again these various different satellite PBS officers that they're
losing revenue on that number eleven. Most of the sound

(03:08):
stages that were at this PBS place were used by
QVC to film infomercials. Other than that, the whole thing
was electronic, whole thing beam into shows put out those. Really,
you know, few people working there in this massive complex.

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Another interesting PBS story as well. This is what happens
when you go to this back in the day when
they had radio rows at political conventions. Of course NPR
would be there. NPR be there, and it would be
with all of us, all of us shows that actually
worked in the real world, whether it be Hannity, whether
it be Laura Ingram, whether it be Neil Boortz. Back

(03:55):
in the day, we would set up, we would set
up radio row. Everybody have their little booth that was there,
and you know we'd be setting up our own stuff. Yeah, oh,
sure you had some help there and whatnot, but you know,
Neil Boortz was setting up stuff and handling stuff. Then
you get the the NPR crow. You should have seen

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their booths. Oh my god, it was staff and water,
big water jugs in the back. They had massive screens
set up with the clock for the radio show. They
needed that much help to put a damn show on
water production. It was as, if you know it, some
Hollywood type was doing some three hundred million dollar movie

(04:41):
and this was our tax dollars for crying out loud,
enough is enough? I mean, go goo for yourself. When
was the last time you watched TBS listen to NPR.
If any of the shows were worth their weight and anything,
somebody would pick them up, somebody would finance them in
some way, shape, matter or form. Here you want to

(05:03):
save about you know six hundred well I don't even
know who know what is it? Six hundred million to
a billion dollars? And fine, at least over the course here,
cancel these two. They have not been a needle mover
in decades. Now. Sorry, I know, I know you're gonna

(05:27):
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