I learned about battling dictatorship from a PBS show. Let’s go save public TV.

Sacramento Bee ^ | July 30, 2025 | By Dion Lefler

[artichokegrower]

When I was a college freshman studying broadcast journalism in 1978, I watched a show on PBS that made me contemplate something that I’d never thought about before: What would I do if one day the government took control of the media, rewarding those who spread the leaders’ propaganda and silencing dissenting voices?

[artichokegrower]

Propaganda like men are women

[gundog]

Wanna save public TV? Send ‘em money. Your own money.

[Steve_Seattle]

Dion Lefler is a clueless moron.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Lighten up Dion. The government has always had control of that crap when the RATS were in charge. They used the crap public TV to attack the Republicans when the GOP was in charge.

[HYPOCRACY]

“What would I do if one day the government took control of the media, rewarding those who spread the leaders’ propaganda and silencing dissenting voices?”

So what did you do for the past 40 years?

[kiryandil]

[kiryandil]

There’s no clown like an old clown.

[DarrellZero]

I saw something good on PBS once.

Let’s fund it forever, no matter what lies it spreads.

That about sums it up.

[cgbg]

Public TV did silence dissenting voices.

Ours.

Karma is best served cold.

[Nervous Tick]

He looks like George HW Bush and Adam Schiff had a child together! 🤣

[Skywise]

These people have no sense of self introspection do they?

[libertylover]

What would I do if one day the government took control of the media, rewarding those who spread the leaders’ propaganda and silencing dissenting voices?

We already saw that. Trump and MAGA Republicans shut off the government money supply for PBS and NPR. Biased reporting still is strong from the HBM (Has Been Media). See Tagline.

[mikey_hates_everything]

"What would I do if one day the government took control of the media, rewarding those who spread the leaders’ propaganda and silencing dissenting voices?"

You know how I knew that happened here? From listening to Radio Moscow, Peking and Pyongyong on shortwave as a kid in the '70's in Taiwan when there was nothing else to do. The crap I've seen and heard on TV and NPR for at least 20 years is a lot like that.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

What would I do if one day the government took control of the media, rewarding those who spread the leaders’ propaganda and silencing dissenting voices?

You mean.... like PBS?

[SpaceBar]

What a complete gag-worthy beta male.

[Bullish]

Jeeze, people like this are blind as bats to the democrat agitprop that found a home at PBS and NPR. People on the right had no business being taxed to fund one party over another, and that’s what they did all day long. Shilling for democrats and their issues while lying about Republicans.

[Mark]

Also, George Castanza.

[Bullish]

None at all, never have either.

[GaltAdonis]

How can we be sure that Oscar the Grouch isn’t a closet Nazi?

/sarc

[NFHale]

Re: “… if one day the government took control of the media…”

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this clown is a comedian, right?

DEFUNDING Leftist propaganda and giving TAXPAYERS their own money back is dictatorship…. Yeahrightsureuhhuhok….

I was wrong… This guy isn’t a comedian… He’s an assclown.

Apparently, he wasn’t paying attention when his party was in control and silencing opposition voices in the media and on social media platforms.

I guess that doesn’t count as dictatorship though.