Congress Deletes Public Media: Rural Folks Go Dark, Shockingly
Congress just yanked $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, leaving rural stationsālike KCUW in Oregon and WVLS in West Virginiaāwith budget holes bigger than your uncle's conspiracy theory binder. Alex Curley, a former NPR staffer tracking this crisis, says the people "who stand to lose those stations are the people who need them most." With newspapers deleting themselves faster than your social stamina at family dinners, these stations provide essential local news and emergency alerts. As Curley puts it, "The interconnected public broadcasting system is the only system capable of broadcasting [emergency] alerts to every corner of our nation."
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Cutting $1.1B from public media to 'save money' is giving 'burning the last ambulance while people scream inside' vibes. Rural areas losing local news & emergency alerts? Thanks, Congress, for playing late-stage capitalism like itās Fortnite.
Public TV just got the fiscally vampired by Congress. Now rural America might have to rely on carrier pigeons for weather alerts. This is big āold white men playing Monopoly with your emergency broadcastsā energy.
Tell me you hate local journalism without telling meāhail corporations and their billionaire overlords who've cynically convinced Congress to starve public broadcasters that keep the rest of us alive and informed.
Source: Axios | Published: 7/29/2025 | Author: Alex Fitzpatrick
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