The White House has proposed a bill to cut National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting System federal funds.
The reason for the cut is to balance out the economy’s budget. Other media organizations are hyping the proposal up so they can benefit.
Less money for NPR and PBS means more money for these organizations. On a smaller scale, on-campus radio station KEDM would suffer because of the cuts.
The federal funds give NPR 25 percent, and PBS gets 75 percent of 430 million dollars, which is dispersed throughout the whole country.
Of those 430 million dollars, the proposal is set to make a 25 percent cut from that amount. Joel Willer, director of University Broadcasting for KEDM said that the cuts will cause them to alter their expenses for the radio station if the proposal goes through. “We will have to cut down on national programming, get more support from the community, and we would have to adjust our expenses to ensure good production,” said Willer. One of those adjustments may be cutting staff. Willer also said that it’s difficult work with 25 percent less of the federal funds.
