And they call us simple minded.
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He's Got A Plan
That's the idea!
This is great news, there is no reason our tax money should be used to fund anti-American propoganda.
They call it "listener-supported radio" here in Indiana. Could it really be "taxpayer supported radio"? Hmmm.
sounds good to me.
Let's hope NPR is next!
And they call us simple minded.
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He's Got A Plan
excellent! let Elmo rot in hell
Satellite radio, for a few bucks per month, more than meet demand for mainstream, crazy, and even questionable radio programing. More power to it!
Both are privately funded. Both do what PBS does, and for far less.
I used to work at a PBS affiliate. We don't need them since someone else is doing what they do, and far more efficiently.
Stop the poison. Stop PBS.
Yeah, Congress "looks" to reform the tax code, too.
As long as the Senate exists in its current form, I'll hold off on making any plans for celebration.
20 years too late!
Don't these public stations pay huge sums for the syndicated spew? Let the local stations come up with their own programming and sell it. There's a Garrison Keillor in every small town just waiting to bloviate.
Hey Paul, you are not in 'business' when you don't have to earn a profit. You lived in a dream world by living off of large corporate donations and tax moeney.
So, get a real job and actually MAKE A PROFIT.
What an idiot. This will in no way change the liberal bias of PBS. This isn't about content as much as it's about what the need is to support this network anymore.
True, it's biased. But it doesn't need taxpayer money to survive. Cut it loose.
I wonder why Carl put quotation marks around the phrase "liberal bias"?
Great. Don't "fix" it. Don't "balance" it. Kill it.
One small reduction in government's all pervasive and insatiable presence. The good shows will get picked up commercially so all this 'hiding behind Big Bird' is just a crock anyway.
Moyers made millions from PBS.
The government paid for all the production fees of his product and then he resold them and kept all the profit.
Great work if you can get it.
I think he forgot "irritating to the taxpayer", "total waste of money", and "intrinsically harmful."
I would argue PBS is somewhere between "total waste of money" and "intrinsically harmful."
Boo hoo. That money also underwrites Bill Moyers' latest irrelevant pap and the rest of the PBS Hate America claptrap. Oscar the Grouch and Buster will be just fine. Or they can get day jobs.
Republicans "are trying to put their ideological stamp on public broadcasting.”
"Which is completely unacceptable. Everyone knows that liberalism is the only ideology that's tolerated within the public broadcasting arena!"
"This could literally put us out of business,”
Egad! Not THAT!
But... but... but how are children supposed to learn about Vermont lesbians and what they do in the woods?
Great idea. Toss in the UN and lets make it a defunding "twofer"...