PBS programming...easy to see why there are forces at work trying to kill it.

[crustychief]

i listen to NPR (national Palestine radio) every once in a while, I usually turn it when it gets really absurd.

[campbellcj]

PBS lost me many years ago. I'm not even sure I get a PBS station anymore - that's how little I care at this point. It's a shame because like a lot of us, I grew-up on Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and all the rest. I have two young kids and cannot even recall if they've consumed any PBS.

I do follow NPR a bit for breaking news, Planet Money and TED Radio Hour which are very well-done and reasonably neutral/apolitical. They can keep the other leftist stuff. I mostly use the iPhone app and podcast feed, not the actual radio or web site.

[74-911]

The radio on my pick-em-up truck is always on NPR (except when grandkids are with me, they complain so it goes to their music channels (and I tune out)).

Some great programming on PBS but mainly on Masterpiece Theater, NOVA, etc. and Ken Burns documentaries are some of the best stuff ever on TV.

and yes, I support both with $$$

There are a few good programs on cable but not on broadcast TV,... they stick with same old formulaic crap... just how many CSI programs can they cram on the air? a bunch and they are all crap.

[Drisump]

Well, I no longer have television in my house and probably the only station I miss is PBS. Politics aside, I simply can't watch what passes for programming on regular private stations. For me it is way too juvenile, reactionary and without substance for me to watch. History channel is the canary in the coal mine, good once but....wow what a POS now!

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by legion

Yes, but I still have to fund it even if I don't watch it. Kill the government funding, and let it live or die based on its own performance.

It would be a refreshingly fundamental transformation that will never happen. Why would the government kill its most effective mouthpiece for soft tyranny directed at people who self-identify as intellectuals simply trying to keep abreast of current events?

Devoted consumers of NPR are like the congregation singing hymns in a subsidized church.

[URY914]

It's all about race and gay rights on NPR. They can turn a story about a pothole in the street into how blacks/gay are being discriminated against.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by URY914

It's all about race and gay rights on NPR. They can turn a story about a pothole in the street into how blacks/gay are being discriminated against.

Come on, admit it. You haven never listened to NPR.
Anyone who listens to NPR couldn't honestly say that.

[URY914]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Come on, admit it. You haven never listened to NPR.
Anyone who listens to NPR couldn't honestly say that.

I listened to it this morning and I will again this afternoon. Let say I always start listening to it but when the story turns, I turn the dial. Diane Rehms, All Things Considered, etc...

[Chocaholic]

Originally Posted by BE911SC

That's why I watch Fox News and listen to Rush Limbaugh. There is no slant there at all.

Ah...but those aren't funded with my tax dollars. As long as tax revenue isn't paying the bills, they're free to slant any direction they like. NPR is a tax funded left-slanted advertisement for liberal ideals. I'd prefer my tax dollars went elsewhere.

[varmint]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I don't watch a lot of PBS but our local NPR station is #1 on my radio.
I watch PBS News Hour maybe once a week. I apparently don't watch it as much as conservatives do, because I don't see any political bias.

you see ted kaczynski as a right winger.


would someone point to the constitution and explain where it justifies using taxpayer money for a television network.

[sammyg2]

Left-leaning PBS is always holding fund raising drives. It's as if the thing they do best is ask for other people's money.
Coincience? I think not.

[strupgolf]

Originally Posted by Z-man

Can't really make sense of what you are saying - not exactly sure whether or not you support PBS or not...
It's not too hard to figure out the the op is very much in favor of PBS.
So...


-Z

iiii and it's not aliens.