Tell them the money will go to Palestine, then laugh diabolically.
NPR can use Pateron and other crowd-sourcing to run. Sure better than using tax dollars and a small number of people that actually pledge cash.
PBS can use licensing fees, and use a greater cut of the merchandise sales from Sesame Street and other properties.
Fire ‘em.
So what did they do with all the money they made illegally selling their contributors lists to the Democratic party?
Shaka Laka!
I bet a private channel (”PBS Classics”) could be launched that would show “Firing Line”, “Masterpiece Theatre”, “Once Upon a Classic” (that had Bill Bixby as host), and other programs from the 1960s through the 1990s era that would be better than useless reruns of Lawrence Welk and other nonsense being trotted out.
I don’t know what it is for others here, but in my locale (that is served by WPBS in Watertown, NY), the programming is especially awful during the fundraising times.
Paula earns $632,233 a year at PBS.
Cut public broadcasting totally out of the budget, please. I am still not tired of winning.
JoMa
ALL of their programming is a swipe at America.
The fact that Netflix is so successful with original programming shows there is now less need for PBS. That is unless PBS can get funding from license fees for owning a TV set—good luck with getting that passed through Congress!
*sob*
Raise money the old fashioned way: by showing more British Sci-Fi and Comedy.
NOT one thin dime for these left wing jerks.
“Public” broadcasting was suppose to include all of us... not just ‘the left’.
Ask Patricia Harrison if she would support tax payer support of FOXNews and Rush Limbaugh. If she says, ‘no’... then cut the funding to ZERO. If I had my way I would make PBS and NPR pay back the taxpayers for half of what they’ve received over the years...
If this action gets rid of Morning Sedition and All Things Distorted, I'll take the trade.
Public broadcasting is infrastructure that should be included in the federal assets such as the two D.C. area airports, the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and G.W. Parkway Trump wants to sell. Let the media market decide on the programming and commercial support. Big Bird wearing a Geico ballcap wouldn’t upset me.
There is NO Constitutional provision allowing for taxpayer funds to be spent on Public Broadcasting.
What I dislike the most about NPR is its virtue signaling audience members. “I was watching NPR yesterday...” “Did you see that on NPR?”
Oh there will be much weeping and wailing over the cuts in spending. But there are other ways to fund PBS, and many of the other expenditures are not needed now, and many were never needed to begin with. Full speed ahead. That which Congress won’t do, end them by EO.