I don't watch PBS at all any more. And I do not listen to NPR either. Waste of taxpayers' dollars if you ask me. We do not need it. Every possible point of view is already out here in TV and radio land. So kill the CPB, PBS and NPR. Save the money. Give the hardware to high-schools so they can learn broadcasting before college ruins them permanently.
I hear you. Even as a kid I was always suspicious of PBS. Something just didn't seem right about that station.
I have not turned on PBS in about 4 years. I actually haven't turned on a television in about two. I subscribe to Netflix for entertainment (that I can control), the Internet for news, and Radio for commutes. Television is a desolate wasteland, and PBS is its Death Valley.
I don't either. Not necessarily because of their content but how they deliver it. The affected speech of almost every employee on the station drives me insane. I literally can't stand to listen to it. I can't even listen to it when a company has it as their hold "music"; I just hang up the phone.
It's the very definition of "unctuous". I can't figure out if it's that my brain just can't handle the speech patterns, or if it's because every person I've ever met who speaks that way has turned out to be a royal pain in the ass.