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They should of been privatized... the government should not be or have a "media" company... PBS hasn't been educational since the 1990's.... kids don't want to hear why the liberals hate Trump...
Good....Corporations fund PBS and NPR because they are blackmailed into it. They are threaten with boycotts from liberals and rather then resist they fold.
that is one of the craziest claims I've read on these forums in a very long time..
They should of been privatized... the government should not be or have a "media" company... PBS hasn't been educational since the 1990's.... kids don't want to hear why the liberals hate Trump...
Man, that Daniel Tiger must be horrible for the kids to watch... not to mention how America's Test Kitchen is turning all those erstwhile cooks into terrorists! And, NOVA has always been a hotbed of liberal science.
They should of been privatized... the government should not be or have a "media" company... PBS hasn't been educational since the 1990's.... kids don't want to hear why the liberals hate Trump...
It's real clear that you don't watch PBS or you would know better.
I agree. NPR has been pretty liberal for a while now.
Not "Far left" as the OP suggests, but definitely leans to the left.
It’s not that it “leans to the left”. It’s when right wingers compare it to right wing opinionated Fox News that NPR’s middle of the road approach appears to be leaning to the left to them.
It’s not that it “leans to the left”. It’s when right wingers compare it to right wing opinionated Fox News that NPR’s middle of the road approach appears to be leaning to the left to them.
It is certainly left of center and to ignore thatis to be willfully ignorant.
The shift in the political spectrum is part of it. I have not changed my views, yet decades ago I was considered left leaning, while today many call my positions "hard right".
It is certainly left of center and to ignore thatis to be willfully ignorant.
The shift in the political spectrum is part of it. I have not changed my views, yet decades ago I was considered left leaning, while today many call my positions "hard right".
I don't listen to NPR so I can't speak on it. PBS is largely about the "arts" one can argue that as a vast generalization the "arts" are "left leaning" but is that really all that offensive?
I don't know the political persuasions of those who bring their items into Antiques Roadshow. Do you?
I would guess that as a vast generalization musicians lean left but I can't ever recall a political diatribe on Austin City Limits. Have you?
Motorweek covers the gas guzzlers along with the electric cars.
I really enjoyed the program the other day on the making of the MLK speech in Washington. Do equal rights issues tend to lean left? It was very educational. Does that bother you?
The government does not "own" a news network. The CPB, which is a private non-profit, receives federal $$, and the money is used to help fund public radio & TV stations, and their programs.
Just for the record, public radio is NOT NPR. NPR is a "network."
Public radio stations must purchase their programming. MOST public radio stations have a variety of programs from a variety of networks: NPR, PRI, APM, etc. There are also exchanges for programming.
So, a station may have Milk Street Radio (food show), Marketplace (investment & economy), Thistle & Shamrock (Celtic Music), Harmonia (early music), various classical, folk, jazz, world, blues, and contemporary music. They may air programming like Chapter a Day, which literally has books being read. There is A Way With Words, which is about words (strangely compelling). News is usually a small part of local rural stations.
Public TV is the same. They purchase programming like Masterpiece, Sesame Street (yes, it's on PBS stations as well as HBO), Daniel Tiger, Lawrence Welk (still brings people in), NOVA, Nature, This Old House, Frontline, and on & on.
So, no, I don't believe that a lot of you condemning public TV & radio actually listen or watch. You are wrong about it. It is valuable to people in areas where there isn't access to a lot of this, and/or those who cannot afford it otherwise.
The tiny amount of each taxpayer's money that goes to the CPB is tiny. And they are terrific stewards of that money, by making an investment in information, arts, entertainment.
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