I'm with Toby Keep funding PBS , renegotiate the deal to where CEO takes a much lower salary and make sure the government gets most of the cut from PBS related merchandising. Problem solved.
The PBS that would show "The Lathe Of Heaven" and Blackadder, and Red Dwarf has already been dead for awhile.
So fucked up. (Just a clarification that is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting - not PBS or NPR.) This will mostly impact poor/red areas as CPB grants make up a disproportionately larger share of their income stream. Rich/liberal areas will have to do a bit more fundraising but mostly to cover the higher costs for content as the poor/red area stations go under. Meaning we’ll pay a bit more and they will get a lot dumber.
For example KUOW gets only four percent of its revenue from the CPB. https://www.king5.com/article/news/...cuts/281-f1e6646d-eea2-46e8-9e0a-a20cce6f483d Which it has already made up.
The CPB is a fund administrator for federal money to get to PBS stations. No funds, no administrator. PBS seems to rely on sponsorship these days. Change the thread title please.
PBS is how poor kids like me got our education when we couldn't go to school. I lived in a bonafide shack out in the hills of Kentucky. We got exactly one channel on our television, and it was PBS. That's how I got Sesame Street, The Electric Company, The Letter People, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, 3-2-1 Contact, and all of those amazing shows that gave my thirsty little 5 year old brain what it needed to keep learning as much as possible. Fuck you, Donald Trump.
See post #6. No, PBS isn't erased period, but its been so gutted it'll never be the same again. So yes, PBS as we know it is going away.
They gutted PBS decades ago. It's managed on private funding. All those ads that never used to be there.
It's mostly going to hurt those of us who don't live in major cities as there simply won't be enough revenue to keep local stations alive. https://time.com/7307069/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-pbs-npr/
Same for Michigan Public, which is mainly based in university towns. But in some rural areas, it's closer to half. Worth noting: Just like the Republicans know they don't have to disenfranchise every female, Black, or Hispanic voter — just enough to tip the scales in a close race — they also know that they don't have to make good information harder to access for absolutely everyone. If they can make sure some rural voters end up not getting any information other than the right-wing outrage bait that the Facebook algorithm feeds them, and they can combine that with other techniques ... that's good enough.
You listen/watch over-the-air much? 10 years ago I listened to NPR on the car radio. Today I stream it on my phone.
NPR affiliates are among the only stations I listen to over-the-air. My town has one family-owned radio station that actually continues to invest in local on-air talent and local news. I listen to them, and I listen to the NPR affiliates in my area (which, because they have different focus areas, are often not playing the same thing as the SiriusXM NPR stream ... one often has its own state news programs, and the other is usually running classical or jazz). The rise of satellite has definitely cut the demand for the corporate-owned "pipe in a feed from somewhere else and play the same 40 songs over and over" stations down to almost zero.
You can stream any NPR station not just one. Of course if your local goes down you'll have to choose one from a bit farther away. Get with the 2010s NPR App - The best of public radio at your fingertips : NPR https://share.google/iviB9ubuLaLCLrBSY
you missed the part where she mentions being 5 years old? great so long as you have access to internet and a device... not so much if you're not in range or lack a laptop... which seems a reasonable supposition once you're past rural.
here's a list of PBS drama. pick which ones are "woke indoctrination" Alice & Jack All Creatures Great and Small Annika Around the World in 80 Days Arthur & George Atlantic Crossing Baptiste Beecham House Breathless Churchill's Secret Dark Angel Death Comes to Pemberley Elizabeth Is Missing Endeavour Flesh and Blood Grantchester Guilt Hercule Poirot Home Fires Howards End Indian Summers Inspector Lewis King Charles III Les Misérables Little Women Magpie Murders Maigret Man in an Orange Shirt MaryLand Miss Austen Miss Marple Miss Scarlet Moonflower Murders Morse & The Last Endeavour: A MASTERPIECE Mystery! Special Mr Bates vs The Post Office Mr. Selfridge Mrs. Wilson My Mother and Other Strangers Nolly Poldark Press Prime Suspect: Tennison Ridley Road Roadkill Sanditon Sherlock Silk The Chaperone The Child in Time The Collection The Durrells in Corfu The Gold The Great Escaper The Lady Vanishes The Long Song The Marlow Murder Club The Miniaturist The Paradise The Real Story of Mr Bates vs The Post Office The Unseen Alistair Cooke To Walk Invisible The Brontë Sisters Tom Jones Unforgotten Us Van der Valk Victoria Wallander What the Durrells Did Next Wolf Hall World on Fire Worricker here's my local affiliate's schedule. same question.
You expect me to watch all of that to determine which ones have woke messaging? Ain’t nobody got time for that.
