PBS and NPR

I've looked and looked but the only mention of the press in the Constitution is in the First Amendment. It calls it freedom of the press but not we have to pay for it.

Trump and many conservatives have advocated deleting funding for both of them and, yes, Big Bird too. Looks like Trump might get it done fulfilling another promise.

Off course our local leftist progressives will come out against it. They have no choice. They can't be seen supporting any thing that Trump does. They want Elmo in their "foxhole" tickling them.

Haven't really mentioned the real reason...biased, dishonest, and unfair "journalism". 87 editorial writers on their staff and not a single registered Republican.

I look back on the days of Crossfire, Miller's Court, and so many other fine, informative programs. So, they can take their $300 million endowment and fend for themselves.

The money spent on PBS is about 1.60 per person per year and is a tiny fraction of the federal budget. More people support federal spending on public media than oppose it. Polling suggests that only about 24% support defunding public media.

I know that many rural areas are glad to get public radio and television coverage.
Public media supports local news coverage, emergency services and response, and in many cases is the last resort for local news coverage.

Defunding it would be a tragedy!

A penny for any "information" outlet is too much. Why doesn't the left dip into their reserves if it is that important.

Back in the 1970s I had an 80 mile commute to work(each way) at 55 mph. Four hours a day on the road. Going home in the evening, iwould dial away from a top 40 rock station and go to NPR for the late afternoon show.

I wouldn't do that today. . . .maybe for "The Engines of our Enginuity" for five minutes . . .if that is still on.

Re Sesame Street . . .What ever happened to Burt and Earnie? Did one of them transition?

A penny for any "information" outlet is too much. Why doesn't the left dip into their reserves if it is that important. Originally Posted by Schwarzer Ritter

The left? I wonder if any Republicans have ever watched Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers or Reading Rainbow or ... anything that helps young minds grow.

You got another gear there Schwartzer?

We used to call it "educational television." Maybe that's where we lost you.

What is the plan to replace those things? Nothing? You're advocating for ignorance. That's where we pick you up again.

The money spent on PBS is about 1.60 per person per year... Originally Posted by txdot-guy

I want my money back. I figure they owe me about $65.
Pay up! Defunding it would be glorious.

A penny for any "information" outlet is too much. Why doesn't the left dip into their reserves if it is that important. Originally Posted by Schwarzer Ritter

I would think donations are tax deductible. Let 'rm eat donations.

... Sesame Streets and Mr. Rodger are NOT on NPR...
Leave those programmes on PBS. ... Defund NPR.

#### Salty

... Sesame Streets and Mr. Rodger are NOT on NPR...
Leave those programmes on PBS. ... Defund NPR.

#### Salty Originally Posted by Salty Again

Picking cherries, again, mate?

So you want to keep one publicly funded info source (the expensive one) and can the cheap one because ...

Proving my point....

Picking cherries, again, mate?

So you want to keep one publicly funded info source (the expensive one) and can the cheap one because ...

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

... Giving me-own thoughts on the matter.
Whether you care or not.

#### Salty

Did you answer? I’m interested in yer-own thoughts. Hence the question.

Do you favour shuttering the less expensive network in favour of Big Bird and Seusseme Street?

Back in the day . . . "educational Television" was far more than just Sesame Street.

As a child in the 1950s I watched Howdy Dody and The Mickey Mouse Club, but they were really just entertainment for kids.

Then came "Romper Room" and a bit later on "Captain Kangaroo. A short while later then that there came "Mister Rogers. Back then that was educational pregaming for children. None of it was supported by tax dollars. . . .and it was all LIVE TV not taped.

Sesame Street has gone far beyond children's entertainment and their 'educatikon". Today has become indoctrination into Wokism. . . .and we are all paying for it.

PBS vs NPR? Why choose?

It is my position that no tax money should go to supporting any of their programming.

...you tend to miss a lot of stuff.

In the 50's-60's the cost of entry in to the news-ish business was extraordinarily high and difficult. Remember when, one had to get up from the sofa/chair to walk all the way across the room to change the channel. There were like 4 or 5 channels then. Remember UHF?

Now-a-days, any twit with a cell phone can reach million/billions of views from their shower. Time marches on. Defund them both as we don't have need of Pravda channels.

...you tend to miss a lot of stuff.

In the 50's-60's the cost of entry in to the news-ish business was extraordinarily high and difficult. Remember when, one had to get up from the sofa/chair to walk all the way across the room to change the channel. There were like 4 or 5 channels then. Remember UHF?

Now-a-days, any twit with a cell phone can reach million/billions of views from their shower. Time marches on. Defund them both as we don't have need of Pravda channels. Originally Posted by Why_Yes_I_Do

Yes . . .I do remember all of that. Stationes signed on at 5AM withg the Natinal Anthem and often a poem thatt began, "I have broken the surly bonds of Earth . .", having been silent and black since maybe midnight or !AM . As a kid, I weas THERE on SAT for cartoons!

And the walk cross the room . . .when the first wireless remote casme out it was an amazing thing. Many boomers still call a TV remote "The Clicker" from the n oise the TV made when mechanically switching channels.