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2018-02-14 -Land of the Free
Trump proposes eliminating federal funding for PBS, NPR
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Posted by Fred 2018-02-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10327 views ]  Top

#1 Why not? Because they may actually may turn a profit?

Or because no one who is a serious person takes it serious because it is leftists (Government) propaganda?

They already advertise.

They profit greatly from their "non-profit" status, but look in the toys'r'us isles for sesame street crap and it's all over.

It is a shelter and a funnel for tax payer dollars into the democrat party and their megaphone of hatred of sanity.

To me, the less balance sheet items, the better managed. And there is not a necessity for this "public service".
They broadcast 9 HD channels, none of which I watch.



Posted by newc 2018-02-14 00:49||   2018-02-14 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Amazing isn't it. A minority demand and get a wall of separation of church and state (although we are about to see the state demand to set the rules of religion when it comes to baking cakes or taking wedding photographs), but no wall of separation between a 'free press' and the state. NPR and PBS are just part of the LBJ Great Society parasites who have sucked up the Social Security surplus of the 60s. That surplus no longer exists.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-02-14 02:18||   2018-02-14 02:18|| Front Page Top

#3 The only way is to wean people off the state.
Then reduce the state. Or you Will collapse.
Posted by newc 2018-02-14 03:51||   2018-02-14 03:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Also frees spectrum and reduces obligation to maintain aging broadcast infrastructures.
Posted by  Skidmark 2018-02-14 07:14||   2018-02-14 07:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Every time I'm on the Mass. Turnpike, I have to look at the obnoxiously gaudy PBS Building (top three pics on the left hand side). Cut their funding and give me a sledgehammer.
Posted by Raj 2018-02-14 11:07||   2018-02-14 11:07|| Front Page Top

#6 One one hand every liberal says 'I don't watch TV". On the other hand they all have I support PBS bumper stickers. Funny that.

I look forward to hearing all about how Sesame street will be cancelled even though it moved to HBO a few years ago.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-02-14 11:57||   2018-02-14 11:57|| Front Page Top

#7 How about if Trump commandeered it and put Fred Pruitt in charge?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-02-14 12:33||   2018-02-14 12:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Fred in charge? That would certainly have educational results...
Posted by trailing wife 2018-02-14 17:34||   2018-02-14 17:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, that's ONE way of putting it, TW! 8^)
Posted by Old Patriot 2018-02-14 20:24||   2018-02-14 20:24|| Front Page Top

#10 The Patrice Lubumba Univ. Of America TV.
Posted by Jack salami 2018-02-14 20:48||   2018-02-14 20:48|| Front Page Top

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