“National Geographic? In other words, you would rather it use taxpayer PBS funding? How Conservative of you. “
That doesn’t make any sense. PBS doesn’t pay National Geographic to do documentaries, they pay National Geographic for the right to show their programs. Why, because people like to watch them and contribute to their procurement.
Where are the taxpayers involved?
Which in turns funds them making more documentaries. It is a cycle. National Geographic is a non-commercial, non-profit enterprise whose finances comes from selling content to groups like PBS (who run off taxpayer funding).