{"id":34385,"date":"2025-06-24T00:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/inside-a-louisiana-npr-station-threatened-by-federal-cuts-without-it-people-would-die\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T00:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:39:51","slug":"inside-a-louisiana-npr-station-threatened-by-federal-cuts-without-it-people-would-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/inside-a-louisiana-npr-station-threatened-by-federal-cuts-without-it-people-would-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside a Louisiana NPR station threatened by federal cuts: &#8220;Without it, people would die&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Before the sun comes up in Shreveport, Louisiana, Jeff Ferrell arrives at the city&#8217;s National Public Radio station and turns on the lights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ferrell is the news director of Red River Radio and its only full-time news employee. He&#8217;s also the on-air host, field reporter, writer and sound editor. Everything that happens in KDAQ&#8217;s control room, he does it solo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From the time he wakes up at 4 a.m., Ferrell spends 15-hour days covering the news in three states. The radio station is part of a network that serves East Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the House approved President Trump&#8217;s request to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/house-vote-rescission-claw-back-9-4-billion-foreign-aid-npr-pbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">cut funding to NPR<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/23\/aaf78829-a4a4-4dcf-b31e-c156a293c3dd\/thumbnail\/620x358\/dbfe7bcfb1f3a1badc89568a04ccaa69\/screenshot-2025-06-23-at-4-57-58-pm.png?v=64f55bb7ef9382fe7916b907da543f1f#\" alt=\"screenshot-2025-06-23-at-4-57-58-pm.png \" height=\"358\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/23\/aaf78829-a4a4-4dcf-b31e-c156a293c3dd\/thumbnail\/620x358\/dbfe7bcfb1f3a1badc89568a04ccaa69\/screenshot-2025-06-23-at-4-57-58-pm.png?v=64f55bb7ef9382fe7916b907da543f1f 1x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Jeff Ferrell of Red River Radio, a public radio station in Shreveport, Louisiana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NPR stations like KDAQ are some of the few sources of news left in the rural region. Often referred to as &#8220;news deserts&#8221; because of the lack of local news organizations, they would suffer the brunt of the Trump administration&#8217;s planned <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-executive-order-cutting-funding-pbs-npr\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">federal funding cuts to public television and radio<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a couple of parishes in Louisiana that have nothing, not even any kind of newspapers,&#8221; Ferrell told CBS News. &#8220;They&#8217;re empty completely. And it&#8217;s just like a food desert in an urban area where people can&#8217;t get fresh fruit \u2014 with us, they can&#8217;t get the news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ferrell and Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith say these cuts could have a vital impact on rural communities, especially during the hurricane season when residents rely on public radio broadcasts for life-saving information.<\/p>\n<p>About 19% of Louisiana residents live in poverty, according to the U.S. Census, and 15% don&#8217;t have access to the internet. Ferrell said public radio is how many Shreveport residents stay connected to the world. If his station&#8217;s funding is cut, there will be less local news service in their area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t afford satellite TV, you can&#8217;t buy cable, and they&#8217;re alone. And so it is a lifeline. And what&#8217;s great about this is that they feel connected,&#8221; Ferrell said. &#8220;Public radio saves lives. The Emergency Broadcast System, without it, people would die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Red River Radio General Manager Kermit Poling said the network gets about $160,000 each year from the government. It&#8217;s about 15% of their $1 million budget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of like any nonprofit. You&#8217;re always in one form or another asking for donations,&#8221; Poling said.<\/p>\n<p>The federal money that Red River Radio receives is part of the $1.1 billion total in proposed cuts for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds to NPR and PBS. <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/npr-sues-trump-over-executive-order-slashing-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">NPR and three local stations<\/a><\/span> have joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration over these cuts. A rescissions package to claw back funding for NPR, PBS and international aid\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/house-vote-rescission-claw-back-9-4-billion-foreign-aid-npr-pbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">approved by the House<\/a><\/span>\u00a0earlier this month is now headed to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts to public broadcasting have been touted by the Trump administration and Republicans as an effort to slash taxpayer funding for news media outlets they accuse of being &#8220;liberal&#8221; or politically biased in their content. But according to a congressional report obtained by CBS News from Senate Democrats, approximately 60% of the hundreds of radio and television stations that could suffer funding cuts <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pbs-npr-cuts-states-won-by-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">are in Trump-won states<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Rural broadcasters have a harder time raising private funds, and it makes them more vulnerable to the proposed federal funding cuts, the <a href=\"https:\/\/amodei.house.gov\/news-releases\/amodei-goldman-issue-joint-statement-support-public-broadcasting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">co-chairs of the Public Broadcasting Caucus said earlier this month<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Public broadcasting represents less than 0.01% of the federal budget, yet its impact reaches every congressional district,&#8221; Nevada Republican Rep. Mark Amodei and New York Democratic Rep. 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