Anyone?

Beuller?

Hmm-PBS maybe a good thing when the US had a handful of networks,

now with 1000 TV stations, tons of various point of views,
kids shows, have CSPAN to directly watch the government,


anyone want to take a shot why the US gov't still owns and operates a TV and radio station?

on btw it happens to be the most expensive in the world,
per show, per employee per any reasonable metric for efficient use of capital.

and the idiots think this is paid for with donations!
ROTFLMAO :zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :

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"How could you possibly live in the freest nation in the history of the world and only see oppression? How could you live in the least imperialist power in human history and see us as the ultimate in imperialism? How can you live in the least bigoted nation in human history ... and see racism lurking in every dark shadow?" he asked.

The comedian attributed the trend to a "rejection of all fact, reason, evidence, logic, truth, morality, and decency."

Personally, I think PBS is one of the better investments our government is making. So what if Ernie and Elmo get a little $ from Uncle Sam to support their crack habits. What other programs can claim to have as much of an impact on individual childhoods than Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow.

Anyone who can argue that the best news and most intellectually stimulating shows are not on PBS, please let me know. The day we get rid of PBS is the day that stupidy finally conquers America.

If we want to cut funding in the Federal Government, I suggest we start with examining all of the agriculture, defense, state department, hhs and homeland security contracts awarded without competition. Blackwater especially comes to mind. The way money has been thrown around, untracked and without accountability, in the name of security is sickening. It is not even helping with our nation's real threats (crime, poverty, lack of education).

Where is the outcry about that?

YN, we pretty much know where you stand on everything. Your opinions are neither nuanced nor complex.

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Drown the fishes.

YN, Why are you still here?

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"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." —George Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001

PBS is one of the few places where literate people can go to be cerebrally stimulated.

A&E shows White Trash reality shows.

Bravo shows middle class reality shows.

Even The History Channel is now given to show garbage like Gang Land and Extreme Loggers, or whatever it is called.

I have no problems funding PBS. It educates people. It cultures people. It informs people. I vote for politicians that fund PBS.


Maybe if you watched PBS, you would have known Vietnam is one word and not two.

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What's a newbold?

They did cut the budget last time around for pbs because the conservative parent groups complained about "liberal message" on sesame street, nova, and some of the other pbs shows.

I don't dig the logger show either Chief, but I think gangland has a very interesting perspective on the criminal justice system, and I highly recommend cities of the underground.

TV is pretty weak in general, but History still offers some good programming.

right the free market cannot support such a station,
so lets use the government.

joke.

not enough the fed is the largest employer, lender, real property owner in the entire world,

lets own and operate TV and radio stations as well.


BIllion dollars a year flushed down the liberal socialist shithole.


Note to liberal socialist pompous airbags, use the internet just like the rest of the idiotic fringe whackjob groups,
you not special. no reason the state should be paying for your idiotic content.

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"How could you possibly live in the freest nation in the history of the world and only see oppression? How could you live in the least imperialist power in human history and see us as the ultimate in imperialism? How can you live in the least bigoted nation in human history ... and see racism lurking in every dark shadow?" he asked.

The comedian attributed the trend to a "rejection of all fact, reason, evidence, logic, truth, morality, and decency."

Cool. You stop paying taxes for PBS, I'll stop paying taxes for no-bid contracts for Haliburton and we'll see who gets a better tax break. Yay free markets!

PBS is not government owned and operated.....

The airwaves are considered common property, just the way the Mississippi River is, for example. Both legislatively and constitutionally it has been affirmed to be a public property. It is controlled by the Federal Communications Commission, which is supposedly the real estate agent, so to speak, for the people who own the public airwaves. The FCC then allocates space on the public airwaves to radio and TV stations and now other forms of cellular communications, etc. We own the public airwaves. We're the landlords. The radio and TV stations are the tenants. They pay us no rent. They use our property free yet they can decide who says what on our property which they control 24 hours a day.

From Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_broadcasting

In the United States, public broadcasting is decentralized and is not government operated, but does receive some government support. The majority of funding comes from community support to hundreds of public radio and public television stations, each of which is an individual entity licensed to one of several different non-profit organizations, municipal or state governments, or universities. Sources of funding also include on-air fund drives (see below) and - on public radio stations - the sale of underwriting "spots" (typically 15-30 seconds) to sponsors. Public radio and television organizations often produce their own programs, but purchase or receive most of their programming from national producers and program distributors such as National Public Radio (NPR), Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Public Radio International (PRI), American Public Television (APT), and American Public Media. U.S. Federal government support for public radio and television is filtered through a separate organization, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

That is the point even a complete idiotic imbecile should be able to comprehend.

Like the last one who posted, who is so stupid to think that even with gross corruption he can find someone to do it cheaper than Haliburton.

It is comical, can people really be that stupid? Maybe a conglomeration of your socialist shitholes, France, Spain and one to be named later-how many more times would it cost than Haliburton?


Here's a better deal-you start engaging something called a brain and I will pretend you have one.

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"How could you possibly live in the freest nation in the history of the world and only see oppression? How could you live in the least imperialist power in human history and see us as the ultimate in imperialism? How can you live in the least bigoted nation in human history ... and see racism lurking in every dark shadow?" he asked.

The comedian attributed the trend to a "rejection of all fact, reason, evidence, logic, truth, morality, and decency."