PBS did have Firing Line years ago, but...
For the Big Bird fans. Sesame Street is now on HBO..reruns 9 months later on PBS.
So many choices available for education and culture.We need not fund PBS and NPR.
Some say the funding is 2 per cent of the public TV and radio networks’ budgets.They can make it up elsewhere via private fundraising.Corporations give, too..maybe a tax deduction?Let THEM give.
A 2008 report on corporations giving to PBS showed car companies, movie studios and even “Fox Broadcasting”.
Of all the PBS programming Sesame Street is the only franchise that turns a profit. I can just imagine Schmucky Schumer doing a photo op dressed up as Big Bird. Hey, he could have Amy Schumer at his side in a Miss Piggy outfit. After the way her last gig bombed failed what does she have to lose? (other than a few pounds) :^/
I for one am getting REALLY tired of radio PSA’s on stupid topics like “don’t drive your car through a flood” that end by saying “Paid for with Pennsylvania taxpayer dollars.”
That is just nothing short of buying influence with local media.
Such parasites as the sleazy Bill Moyers have gotten rich off Middle Class taxpayers forced to fund the Leftist propaganda arm at PBS.
All this talk of defunding NPR, PBS, NEH, et al sound really great. I’m all in favor of it!
But you know that as soon as an actual bill to do it shows up in the Senate, the usual turds (McLame, McConnell, Linda Graham, etc) are going to come out and tell us it is “DOA”.
Wait and see.
Oddly enough, this may have the downside of funneling more support to the leftist MSM cartel. So congress, stimulated to by President Trump, needs to rework the antitrust laws to target the media oligopoly.
Only 5 companies control the MSM, and in turn they are controlled by just 15 billionaires. This needs to end, as these billionaires are all decidedly anti-American, definitely anti-conservative, and imagine themselves as behind the scenes rulers of the government.
Another good place to do that would be the colleges.They are infested with Liberals spewing propaganda
defund the left.
and here’s a great reason why....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EA_40Hj05I
furthering indoctrination of young minds....
“Whose the president that’s going to cut your funding? Grump grump grump”
PBS has aired numerous documentaries on the terrorist heroes of the Red Left of the 1960s and 1970s. Weather Underground, SLA, Black Panthers, Chicago 7, on and on...
But how am going to get my Downton Abbey?
Oh, wait. I can that on Hulu, or Netflix, or something.
How about we fund pro-America accurate non-propaganda instead. It’s only fair after decades of the opposite.