Anything that doesn’t spew hate is on the chopping block. PBS? Really? Sesame Street!?! Mr. Rodger’s neighborhood!?! Reading Rainbow!?! These are the threats to this weak, thin skinned regime?
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Yeah. Those programs teach kids basic life skills, kindness, and so on. They cultivate a love for learning.
This is fascist bullshit 101.
If only these guys would ever focus there attention upwards they'd see much entitlement that needs fixing.
We helped pay for Sesame Street in the middle east because it's super effective pro-Western-Culture propaganda. Seriously can't have a better investment than we had there.
Oh the other children's programming is funded by generous support from...the Taliban...soooo, good job giving them a monopoly on kids minds? How you think that'll play out in 5-10 years when they are old enough for war?
These people view empathy as a threat to their existence (because it is). So anything that teaches children to empathize is bad in their minds.
Honestly... NPR and PBS have already been starved of public funding for so long (talking single digit % of total operating costs), that I'm starting to think we'd be better off with it being entirely listener/viewer-funded. Is the table scraps they throw them worth this kind of headache? Especially with a president who will 100% attempt to interfere with their reporting.
Then they would cease to be public media and would just be another non-profit news organization/content producer
Also, federal funding is a tiny chunk of NPR and PBS, but the individual member stations that actually broadcast the stuff NPR and PBS produce tend to get a lot bigger chunk of their budgets through the feds (this is what they're talking about when they say the funding is "crucial to bringing public broadcasting to local communities")
This right here. My local station, radio and television, rely heavily on federal funding, because nobody in the south cares about it. I donate every month, but not everybody does.
Not necessarily. They could continue to be nonprofit and operate almost exactly how they currently are, just without interference from the government. Could even set up independent ethics boards and shit to keep them honest if people think it's needed.
I don't know enough about how member stations are funded I guess... So maybe I'm wrong.
Honestly, even if the man himself were still around to push back, they’d probably call him an “an tea fuh woke mind virus communist” or some shit like that.
I think, societally, this country is completely done. This is our final form, and I hate it with every bone and sinew in my body.
They'd twist some tale to tarnish Rogers for sure. Fucking insane. As to the latter part of your comment? I think you're right; I hope you're wrong.
I hope I’m wrong too. But I don’t think I am.