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Post by WalterBright »

ndiddy wrote: post #415
tptacek wrote: post #296

This is a giant thread full of people lamenting the demise of public broadcasting so it seems like someone should write the comment that points out that CPB doesn't do PBS programming. They don't develop content. They're a grantmaking organization that manages the distribution of the congressional PBS appropriation. The actual PBS and NPR shows you're familiar with are generally developed and produced privately, and…

PBS stations in major markets will likely be able to carry on due to donations and corporate underwriting, but stations in rural areas (the types of places where Internet streaming is less viable due to poor infrastructure) will be heavily affected. Some rural stations get up to half their budgets from the CPB, and these cuts will likely make them have to shut down. In heavily rural states like West Virginia, Alaska,…

If I was in a place without internet streaming, I'd get Starlink.

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Post by specialist »

radiofreeeuropa wrote: post #203
ygjb wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Before you think this is happening quickly, do note that public institutions have been under attack from the right for generations, including publicly funded education, public broadcasters, public health and social programs. These attacks are not unique to the United States; there is a coordinated effort across many countries by public policy groups and private interests. The United States are highly visible due to t…

This has been a project under way since the friggin' John Birchers and the postwar "think-tank" boom. They've (this specific set of interests, not conservatism in general) been successfully ratcheting things toward authoritarianism since their Chicago school pals got the right people in the right places to radically change how we enforced anti-trust in the '70s (that is, they made it impossible for us to enforce in a…

Yup.

The books Democracy in Chains, Lobbying America, and Dark Money are three (of many, many) good intros to the conservative reaction to the The New Deal.

Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

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Post by exasperaited »

butterknife wrote: post #258
reorder9695 wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every household that has a TV, regardless of their use of the BBC. I don't know why people who essentially use a TV as a monitor for games consoles need to pay it.

We don't.

True. I personally do (and I don't currently own a TV!) but I think non-payment is going to become a significant enough issue within the period of this parliament that we will likely see an end to the licence fee shortly after the 2030 election if not sooner.

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Post by wtfwhateven »

koolba wrote: post #373
legitster wrote: post #325

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many pro-Trump Republicans actually want to engage in a fair round-table style debate? This administration makes a point that they only do interviews with sources favorable to them. They can't opt out of the media and then pretend to be victims.

> How many pro-Trump Republicans actually want to engage in a fair round-table style debate? There's plenty to pick from. The problem is that having someone effective in that position would anger the one people that PBS actually cares about, their donor class. It doesn't matter that Trump won the popular vote in the most recent election, they'll still go out of their way to ensure that the token conservative voice is…

>There's plenty to pick from.

No there's not. Name three.

>This is the most accessible and transparent administration in decades, if not longer. The POTUS has held more interviews, with just about every national media organization, and regularly holds open ended press conferences with pools of reporters.

This is simply an absurd lie with no basis in reality, I really don't know why you even spouted it. It contradicts observable truth. Strange.

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Post by hedora »

tptacek wrote: post #296

This is a giant thread full of people lamenting the demise of public broadcasting so it seems like someone should write the comment that points out that CPB doesn't do PBS programming. They don't develop content. They're a grantmaking organization that manages the distribution of the congressional PBS appropriation. The actual PBS and NPR shows you're familiar with are generally developed and produced privately, and…

Given that CBP is only 15% of PBS funding, I’m surprised they don’t start a national fundraising campaign instead.

I’d happily donate some cash to keep PBS’s lights on in red states.

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Post by subsistence234 »

duped wrote: post #352
abeppu wrote: post #235

As with many things, I wonder if we should start unbundling services the federal government provides. If many states like public broadcasting, what if a pool of states were to opt-in to continuing to fund it (and decide whether to limit it to supporting stations in those states)? Some things (defense, diplomacy) perhaps can only be done through the federal government. But so many things (national weather service oper…

> But so many things (national weather service operations, HUD housing assistance, grants for local PBS stations, SNAP benefits) have a largely local or regional benefit. You should look up which states/regions/counties provide the funding and which states/regions/counties receive the benefits, it's disproportional. Unironically, unbundling HUD, SNAP, and NWS would probably cause famine in Mississippi.

the disproportionately black american mississippi?

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Post by sunshinesnacks »

jumpkick wrote: post #436
tptacek wrote: post #296

This is a giant thread full of people lamenting the demise of public broadcasting so it seems like someone should write the comment that points out that CPB doesn't do PBS programming. They don't develop content. They're a grantmaking organization that manages the distribution of the congressional PBS appropriation. The actual PBS and NPR shows you're familiar with are generally developed and produced privately, and…

> because you almost certainly weren't watching those shows on linear television anyways. I'm just one person, but I definitely am watching the local PBS over an antenna, and so do several members of my family (living in different households). The local broadcast is excellent quality, I get a good signal to it, never any glitches, and I enjoy the local news and other programming too.

I don’t watch my local PBS over antenna much anymore, but it is great, just like you describe. Amazing what you can watch for free OTA, when you think about it.

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Post by subsistence234 »

Onawa wrote: post #27
thevillagechief wrote: post #13

Woah! This stuff is unwinding faster than my priors. I'm going to have to re-evaluate everything I thought true about the US. I just always assumed "strong institutions" meant something here. That it was all a house built on sand is disconcerting.

The dissolution and dismantling of US gov institutions that we are witnessing is unprecedented in modern times. Hell, a few of the agencies being attacked were created with bipartisan support. I would say it isn't that our institutions were built on sand, more that its hard to stop a madman who broke into your house with a chainsaw (a la Musk) from knocking down a few load-bearing walls. It is easier to destroy almos…

i guess they should have been more trustworthy. once its lost, trust is hard to earn back.

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Post by subsistence234 »

DFHippie wrote: post #117
BeetleB wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I would say it isn't that our institutions were built on sand, more that its hard to stop a madman who broke into your house with a chainsaw (a la Musk) from knocking down a few load-bearing walls. This isn't due to one man (Musk) or a rogue government agency, or even the executive branch. This is Congress, which tells you how bad things have gotten.

It isn't Congress writ large, is the Republican caucus in Congress. And the Republican caucus in the SCOTUS.

actually it's the voters.

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Post by nemo44x »

Good it’s a completely outdated concept. There’s no barrier to producing and distributing content today. That public tax dollars go to a place where partisans distribute it to their favorite projects is a 1960s era concept that needs to die.

Really the 1960s and 70s were such an insane era we should examine all government programs from that era that are still in commission with very suspicious eyes.

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