Ideastream Cuts Independent Media
BY LUCA WGGONER | Posted July 31, 2025Ideastream Cuts Independent Media
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President Donald Trump’s recent proposed cuts to public broadcasting are set to drastically affect news outlets in Cleveland. This will naturally place news groups like Ideastream in an impossible bind. They will either significantly reduce their coverage of important local issues, or they will end up-–to keep operations running-–becoming beholden unto corporate donors, thereby robbing them of what journalistic freedoms they did have.
According to Josh Boose, Associate Producer at Ideastream, the “9 billion dollar rescission package,” which the Senate already passed, amounts to “about 10% of Ideastream’s budget.”
Attacks on public media like NPR and PBS are nothing new. Back in 2012, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney relentlessly criticized government funding of PBS. His rant took up enough time in interviews and debates that Mitt Romeny’s feud with Big Bird became a prominent meme in political discourse. Far earlier, both President Nixon and President Reagan attempted massive cuts to public media. The neoconservatives and fascists want what they’ve always wanted: absolute corporate control over the dissemination of information.
This all highlights the need for truly independent media – news whose existence is not dependent on appeasing the whims of the current leader or to corporate donors. Having coverage that, because it is free of those shackles, can remain honest and accurate regardless of political shifts.
According to Josh Boose, Associate Producer at Ideastream, the “9 billion dollar rescission package,” which the Senate already passed, amounts to “about 10% of Ideastream’s budget.”
Attacks on public media like NPR and PBS are nothing new. Back in 2012, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney relentlessly criticized government funding of PBS. His rant took up enough time in interviews and debates that Mitt Romeny’s feud with Big Bird became a prominent meme in political discourse. Far earlier, both President Nixon and President Reagan attempted massive cuts to public media. The neoconservatives and fascists want what they’ve always wanted: absolute corporate control over the dissemination of information.
This all highlights the need for truly independent media – news whose existence is not dependent on appeasing the whims of the current leader or to corporate donors. Having coverage that, because it is free of those shackles, can remain honest and accurate regardless of political shifts.
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