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Kenneth_2003 said:

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Pay off me is truly saddened by this. Not for what they became, but because of what they were and used to be.

How hard was it to produce quality wholesome educational programming across the ages? Happening that parents(used to) never have to worry what their kids were watching?

Basins of reading, working, numbers and letters, healthy social interactions for young children; healthy play, problem solving, and childhood conflict resolution... Art, nature, physical and biological sciences...

Who knew they JUST couldn't do it without getting into the woke nonsense

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The sad thing is that they are now so ideologically hard line that they are willing to kill CPB rather than promise to allow conservative voices on "their" public forum.

It's telling that they're unwilling to defend their position against qualified opposition. They'd rather burn the whole thing down.

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Agreed. Talk about willing to cut off their own nose simply to spite their face...
Goodness yes there are other avenues for everything they did but people certainly did like a lot of what they did, and there was a market for it!

doubledog said:

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The best thing for the Corp. for Public Broadcasting to do was just change their agenda to a less bias and balanced content promotion. I suppose the leftist agenda is stronger then common sense.

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The mission of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is:
To ensure universal access to non-commercial, high-quality content and telecommunications services that inform, educate, and enrich the public.

In practical terms, CPB:
- Supports public media (like PBS, NPR, and local public radio/TV stations) with federal funding
- Promotes educational, cultural, and civic programming
- Encourages diverse viewpoints and local voices
- Strengthens public media's role in democracy, especially in underserved and rural communities

Importantly, CPB does not produce programs itself. It acts as a funding and policy organization that helps public media remain independent, accessible, and focused on the public interest rather than commercial profit.

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The bottom 3 bullet points have become boiler plate far left ideology objectives in recent decades.

Cultural, diverse viewpoints, underserved communities = all anti-white and anti-capitalist buzz words in this context.

Liquidating CPB to prevent actual diversity of thought is proof of that.

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Good! Keep hammering the left at every turn.

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Now lets get rid of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, CNBC, NYT, DMN, AJC, LA Times, etc Then we would be making real progress.

Time for legacy media to die a dinosaurs death

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doubledog said:

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The best thing for the Corp. for Public Broadcasting to do was just change their agenda to a less bias and balanced content promotion. I suppose the leftist agenda is stronger then common sense.

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The mission of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is:
To ensure universal access to non-commercial, high-quality content and telecommunications services that inform, educate, and enrich the public.

In practical terms, CPB:
- Supports public media (like PBS, NPR, and local public radio/TV stations) with federal funding
- Promotes educational, cultural, and civic programming
- Encourages diverse viewpoints and local voices
- Strengthens public media's role in democracy, especially in underserved and rural communities

Importantly, CPB does not produce programs itself. It acts as a funding and policy organization that helps public media remain independent, accessible, and focused on the public interest rather than commercial profit.

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The bottom 3 bullet points have become boiler plate far left ideology objectives in recent decades.

Cultural, diverse viewpoints, underserved communities = all anti-white and anti-capitalist buzz words in this context.

Liquidating CPB to prevent actual diversity of thought is proof of that.

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Totally this.

To the Board of CPB, a "diverse viewpoint" is THEIR viewpoint.

To them, any viewpoint to the right of their "diverse viewpoint" is unacceptable and deserves no voice on public airwaves.

jrdaustin said:

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The sad thing is that they are now so ideologically hard line that they are willing to kill CPB rather than promise to allow conservative voices on "their" public forum.

It's telling that they're unwilling to defend their position against qualified opposition. They'd rather burn the whole thing down.

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I guess, but Garrison Keillor and company were huffing farts on Saturday nights 40 years ago. They weren't allowing conservatives on their airwaves back then, either. You're just aware of it now.

Think of all the taxpayer money they've laundered in those 40 years.

Kenneth_2003 said:

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Part of me is truly saddened by this. Not for what they became, but because of what they were and used to be.

How hard was it to produce quality wholesome educational programming across the ages? Programming that parents(used to) never have to worry what their kids were watching?

Basics of reading, writing, numbers and letters, healthy social interactions for young children; healthy play, problem solving, and childhood conflict resolution... Art, nature, physical and biological sciences...

Who knew they JUST couldn't do it without getting into the woke nonsense

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Living in the stick with no cable, I grew up on PBS. Mister Rogers played a huge part of teaching me to be a good person that I didn't get from my parents. I still go watch certain Mister Rogers episodes when I need a reminder to be compassionate and caring.

I learned a ton from This Old House, Hometime, The Woodwrights Workshop, and New Yankee Workshop. It kick started a passion in me to work with my hands and fix things myself that I still have decades later.

I'm with you. PBS, at least in the 70s/80s rural parts of Texas, did great work. Very sad what they devolved into.

It's not that they didn't have some good work over the decades but it mostly devolved into leftist propaganda. That was their undoing and rightfully so. Even the children's programs had a leftist lean in the past decade +.

Public funding is not necessary for good programming.

It would be infinite easier to serve a neutral programming function. They didn't, they wouldn't and the fact that they would even let it go into hibernation mode then really shows it was going to exist only in the leftist mode.

Just another example of leftist only able to exist is of tax payer money.

I would request they burn the remaining structure, documents and historical info into the ground to nothing but ashes. No way to reconstitute the entity.

txyaloo said:

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Kenneth_2003 said:

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Part of me is truly saddened by this. Not for what they became, but because of what they were and used to be.

How hard was it to produce quality wholesome educational programming across the ages? Programming that parents(used to) never have to worry what their kids were watching?

Basics of reading, writing, numbers and letters, healthy social interactions for young children; healthy play, problem solving, and childhood conflict resolution... Art, nature, physical and biological sciences...

Who knew they JUST couldn't do it without getting into the woke nonsense

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Living in the stick with no cable, I grew up on PBS. Mister Rogers played a huge part of teaching me to be a good person that I didn't get from my parents. I still go watch certain Mister Rogers episodes when I need a reminder to be compassionate and caring.

I learned a ton from This Old House, Hometime, The Woodwrights Workshop, and New Yankee Workshop. It kick started a passion in me to work with my hands and fix things myself that I still have decades later.

I'm with you. PBS, at least in the 70s/80s rural parts of Texas, did great work. Very sad what they devolved into.

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Ultimately, this is what is so sad.

PBS successfully functioned for decades having their politics be incidental to the messages they wanted to portray - education of basics, proper citizenship, and arts and crafts. It is what made PBS unique and valuable to everyone.

Even NPR functioned at one point with an ethical worldview of presenting of both sides. Even if they favored a particular side, they made it a point to be honest in their reporting by holding both sides accountable, and giving both sides a voice.

But at some point, their politics became essential to what they wanted to portray, and we began to see political ideology creep into all aspects of programming - especially in the educational arena where there were young, innocent minds to indoctrinate.

Now, the idea to even consider going back to what they once were - and staying out of the political arena to be justified in receiving public funds - is unfathomable to them. They'd rather shut it down. It exposes like an open wound what their current motivations are.

PBS & NPR have not disappeared though, right? Just their main funding mechanism. I'll celebrate when those leftist propaganda out lets are actually off the air.

Good news and a step in the right direction.

Buck Turgidson said:

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PBS & NPR have not disappeared though, right? Just their main funding mechanism. I'll celebrate when those leftist propaganda out lets are actually off the air.

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Correct.

Kenneth_2003 said:

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Part of me is truly saddened by this. Not for what they became, but because of what they were and used to be.

How hard was it to produce quality wholesome educational programming across the ages? Programming that parents(used to) never have to worry what their kids were watching?

Basics of reading, writing, numbers and letters, healthy social interactions for young children; healthy play, problem solving, and childhood conflict resolution... Art, nature, physical and biological sciences...

Who knew they JUST couldn't do it without getting into the woke nonsense

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It's called "programming" for a reason...

Liberals can't help themselves, just like Muslims can't help themselves either. It is what they are - a cancer upon this planet that seeks to spread and convert.

BBRex said:

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I wouldn't have seen "Monty Python's Flying Circus" in the '70s without PBS, so I have a little bit of feelings for it going away.

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Blake's 7 sucked up one of my summers every night at 11 p.m.

BBRex said:

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I wouldn't have seen "Monty Python's Flying Circus" in the '70s without PBS, so I have a little bit of feelings for it going away.

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One of my favorite show's ever.

Here is a current reminder of what PBS has become.

One of the programs that has been paused for lack of funding is The American Experience, which I have watched many times over the years.

Most of the time, the documentaries presented are left wing.

Last night the film was entitled Bombshell.

On the surface, the show dealt with the fact that for a couple of years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Truman government tried to control the narrative about the aftereffects of radiation.

The Dept. of Defense even hired its own NYT reporter to be its official mouthpiece to the rest of the world, and he won a Pulitzer for his coverage that was carefully vetted by the Truman administration.

But a number of journalists broke ranks and actually went to those cities and saw the effects of radiation poisoning and reported on it. John Hersey was the most famous one: he wrote an article, "Hiroshima," which became the entire contents of a New Yorker issue in 1947. It sold out in one day.

The Truman administration produced a lengthy piece to defend the bombing, and that too sold out in one day.

All fine and good.

But this documentary also veered into the leftist claptrap that the bombings were not necessary to end the war and that we used the bombs because of racism (quoting Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston as "evidence").

The smug self-righteousness of the documentarian was just unbearable to me (my Aggie uncle died in a Jap POW camp).

Watching such propaganda presented as fact was just further confirmation that Congress did the right thing in defunding CPB. PBS and NPR will continue, but not on my dime.

Sesame Street merchandise probably makes them a lot of money? I always wondered where that money went.

sleepybeagle said:

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Sesame Street merchandise probably makes them a lot of money? I always wondered where that money went.

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No, PBS does not receive money from Sesame Street merchandise.

CPB was created in 1967, in a country with only a handful of TV networks. Where Internet video streaming didn't exist. Where "home video" at all didn't exist. So there wasn't much of a platform for niche educational shows that couldn't get for-profit advertisers, and hence an argument for the government to subsidize one.

It's a much different world today.

I tuned in yesterday about 5 minutes before they made the bomb about race and people of dark skin.

Was excited as that topic has always interested me (nuclear weapons/fall out etc) and then PBS just has to crap lefty **** all over it.