@Sleepyguy saidEliminating perspectives from the field is not conducive to maintaining a well-informed electorate.
Undermines freedom of the press? Baloney. PBS and NPR are still free to broadcast whatever they want. The difference is now they must do it without taxpayer money. Your insistence that I keep paying for CPB is like me insisting you have to pay for Fox or whatever right wing rag you despise.
@moonbus saidGood riddance. Maybe those who like the programming can fund it. Looks like mostly rubbish to me, mixed in with some decent stuff.
After 6 decades of publicly funded non-biased news reporting, PBS has voted to close shop, because Trump and his Republican stooges have cancelled funding.
Don't call it censorship. It's wilful stupidification. Republicans WANT people to be less-well-informed, because less-well-informed people are easier to manipulate. THIS is how democracies die.
Sorry, the link is ...[text shortened]... search on Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down.
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/ ...
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@moonbus
"non-biased reporting".
are you living in a closet ?
and if you and your people had given money in their "time of need" they would still be there.
like most socialists you either want it for free or for the government to pay for it.
show some financial self-reliance and put up the money to keep alive what you want.
@moonbus saidA) That's rich considering the censorship industrial complex the left had going before Elon bought Twitter.
Eliminating perspectives from the field is not conducive to maintaining a well-informed electorate.
B) No perspectives have been eliminated from the field. They're just going to have to figure out how to fund NPR and PBS without coercing the taxpayers, like everybody else.
@Sleepyguy saidLike I said only a low % came from gummint. It will be a squeeze but they will not go out of business and when our Thug in Chief is out of office and a REAL person is elected, we might make more gummint money available.
A) That's rich considering the censorship industrial complex the left had going before Elon bought Twitter.
B) No perspectives have been eliminated from the field. They're just going to have to figure out how to fund NPR and PBS without coercing the taxpayers, like everybody else.
If the Orange pasted Trump can give TWENTY FKING BILLION to Argentina, he can spend some money on PBS.
@Sleepyguy saidAre you kidding? After Elon bought it, they did the whole Twitter files thing and found there was no systemic bias against conservatives.
A) That's rich considering the censorship industrial complex the left had going before Elon bought Twitter.
B) No perspectives have been eliminated from the field. They're just going to have to figure out how to fund NPR and PBS without coercing the taxpayers, like everybody else.
Now, every study has shown that there is more censorship on Twitter than there ever was before.
And it's turned into a cesspool of bots and AI filth. He ruined it.
@Sleepyguy saidhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/elon-musk-hypocrite-free-speech
A) That's rich considering the censorship industrial complex the left had going before Elon bought Twitter.
B) No perspectives have been eliminated from the field. They're just going to have to figure out how to fund NPR and PBS without coercing the taxpayers, like everybody else.
@moonbus saidI posted my source. Read it.
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Washington, D.C. (January 5, 2026) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress to steward the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting, announced today that its Board of Directors has voted to dissolve the organization after 58 years of service to the American public.
The decision follows C ...[text shortened]... otes-dissolve-organization-act-responsible
Why do you dispute facts? Again and again and again.
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@Cliff-Mashburn saidMore evidence that there is what you consider news, and then there's reality, which you fight against, tooth and nail.
I stopped reading at "non-biased".
PBS is crazy biased towards the left, pure propaganda for Dems..
Why do all of you fascists prefer lies?
@Cliff-Mashburn saidAll hail AI.
Quoting a source that is just as biased that says PBS isn't biased., yeah that means a lot.
Here's an ex-Executive Vice President of PBS that quit in disgust because he couldn't go along with it anymore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPZgsD6esKk
Disgusting.
