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8 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Sad. And for what reason? There is no reason to shut it down. 

From the article:  "For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community."

Now, who would have a vested interest in these things coming to an end?  The same people who are also trying to destroy public schools, perhaps? 

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6 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

From the article:  "For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community."

Now, who would have a vested interest in these things coming to an end?  The same people who are also trying to destroy public schools, perhaps? 

Fuck Miller. Fuck him and that bald head of his. He got his ass kicked in HS and is now going to make everyone pay. 

17 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

Oh, there's a reason.

They must have the Epstein logs! 

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FYI for those with kids and grandkids who really appreciate the family programming of PBS Kids:

PBS Kids will not shut down, but some shows will be cancelled, and the surviving shows will make fewer new episodes, at least for the next couple of years. If you want to see PBS Kids survive, the best thing you can do is become a member of your local PBS station. If you're already a member, raise your donation level if you can.

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over 130 million people watch pbs every year

86 million american children have watched sesame street since it's debut in 1969

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5 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

a bald man is sitting at a table talking to a woman and saying `` nobody gives a f * ck . ``

Apparently you gave enough of a fuck to click on the thread and post, dumbass

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6 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

a bald man is sitting at a table talking to a woman and saying `` nobody gives a f * ck . ``

Not sure I agree 100% with your police work there Lou!

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15 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

 

I mean I try to assume positive with nearly everyone here, but it's interesting that even if you're apathetic about CPB or don't believe in their purpose, you choose to mock/troll.

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20 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

a bald man is sitting at a table talking to a woman and saying `` nobody gives a f * ck . ``

You don't watch anything on PBS?  NPR?  KUT?

People actually do give a fuck.

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1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

Sad. And for what reason? There is no reason to shut it down. 

Truth in reporting is one very big reason.

4 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

So it really wasn't "listener supported" - shocking news.

Don't be a fucking moron.  You're better than this.

It's both.  Or it was.  It's now entirely listener supported.

Nixon hated CPB and NPR.  That tells you all you need to know.

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34 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

a bald man is sitting at a table talking to a woman and saying `` nobody gives a f * ck . ``

As long as this moron's unfettered access to being brainwashed by Joe Rogan and Fox News continues he has no use for actual legitimate information. 

 

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Fuck this shit. Fuck the DT posters that voted for this shit.

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A proper Gen X early childhood included the following on a sick day home from school:

- Sesame Street, with Mr. Hooper running the store.  Annoying Elmo had not yet been created

- The Electric Company, with Morgan Freeman in the cast

- some kids show Spanish. Callas Colendras or something 

- Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green jeans and bunny rabbit dropping ping pong balls on a guest.  Also, Dolly Parton guested once 

- The Price Is Right with Dianne Parkinson in all her glory, which was on CBS, but I ain’t sticking on PBS for “Sit And Be Fit”

 

 

Borderline Libertarian here.  I figure that 60ish years of public money is enough to figure out if there is a real market demand for that they are doing.

9 minutes ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

some kids show Spanish. Callas Colendras or something 

 

This one?

 

3 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

This one?

 

Hell yeah

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9 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

Borderline Libertarian here.  I figure that 60ish years of public money is enough to figure out if there is a real market demand for that they are doing.

Confused Mariah Carey GIF

I haven't got this many negative responses since I said that the Covid stuff was over hyped!  Thanks!

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No concept of the "Common Good" these days.

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1 hour ago, DalTxHornFan said:

Borderline Libertarian here.  I figure that 60ish years of public money is enough to figure out if there is a real market demand for that they are doing.

Washington, from the very first State of the Union

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“There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”

Jefferson, in a letter to Edward Tiffin, a physician who became the first governor of Ohio, on the importance of the arts and sciences to developing and maintaining a free society

(especially relevant to what is happening in America currently)

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The diffusion of knowledge among the people is to be the instrument by which it is to be effected. The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance 

And finally Madison who, along with Jefferson, is the founding father who aligns most closely with “borderline libertarian,” in Federalist 62

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[A] certain degree of uniformity in the regulations…is necessary, and…the encouragement of learning and the progress of science are also among the proper objects of national legislation.

CPB and PBS / NPR embody one of the core aspirations of the founders of our country, and provide infrastructure critical for carrying it out. Gutting and dismantling them are direct attacks on our way of life

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Imagine being @DalTxHornFan, waking up every day with a room temperature IQ and thinking it'd be super swell if the ol' US of A became a little more like Hungary or Turkey.

4 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Washington, from the very first State of the Union

Jefferson, in a letter to Edward Tiffin, a physician who became the first governor of Ohio, on the importance of the arts and sciences to developing and maintaining a free society

(especially relevant to what is happening in America currently)

And finally Madison who, along with Jefferson, is the founding father who aligns most closely with “borderline libertarian,” in Federalist 62

CPB and PBS / NPR embody one of the core aspirations of the founders of our country, and provide infrastructure critical for carrying it out. Getting and dismantling them are direct attacks on our way of life

Instead we got a nice standing military force and military industrial complex. 

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If he were actually "libertarian," even borderline, he'd be up in arms about the assault on civil liberties going on right now. And yet, he's not once voiced concern about any of it.

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assault, not erosion

Isn't he an old fart? Probably collecting that socialist social security and Medicare. Libertarian? Get the fuck out of here.

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3 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

Yet somehow we survived without it for the first 200 years or so.


I’m confused. Is your argument that the founding fathers, who put so much emphasis on knowledge, science, and the arts, and who encouraged their development both on a personal level as well as with government patronage, would not take advantage of the technology of television, radio waves, and now the Internet to foster and promote those ideals, and disseminate them to our citizens?

Go ahead and flesh this out for us a bit

 

 

2 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:


I’m confused. Is your argument that the founding fathers, who put so much emphasis on knowledge, science, and the arts, and who encouraged their development both on a personal level as well as with government patronage, would not take advantage of the technology of television, radio waves, and now the Internet to foster and promote those ideals, and disseminate them to our citizens?

Go ahead and flesh this out for us a bit

 

 

There were printing presses back then.  I didn't know that there were government subsidies for them.

17 minutes ago, Stringer said:

No concept of the "Common Good" these days.


Yep, its just...

 

I wonder why no one in the other party has effectively done anything about it?

Also, Kneehigh Park adequately fills the Sesame Street void in today's US.
 

 

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2 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

There were printing presses back then.  I didn't know that there were government subsidies for them.

Ever heard of the library of Congress? Read up on its inception and evolution. A federal government was a brand new concept, and ours was in significant debt from fighting a war against the greatest power on the planet at that time. There wasn’t much money available for government subsidies for anything.

Look up the Federal Depository Library Program (1813) and Smithsonian Institution Publications (1846)

As our country grew, monetary support for the arts and sciences has grown along with it (at least until now).There are examples everywhere, from the Lewis and Clark expedition through the land grant university programs and federally backed research in agriculture and industry.

Government leaders beginning in the 20th century have consistently have felt an obligation to promote the arts as well. It is mind-boggling that in the last 30 years or so such concepts have become partisan issues.

Even the Robber Barons knew the importance of private patronage in partnership with government money. What we have today is pathetic and we are on the verge of the biggest brain in history

12 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

🎶But you’ll get no pussy🎶

Fuck it.

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Victories like this make it easy to forget that you voted for a child rapist.

2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

You don't watch anything on PBS?  NPR?  KUT?

Come on, you know damn well he has no curiosity.

10 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

Victories like this make it easy to forget that you voted for a child rapist.

He loves that. He loves that children  got raped by POTUS. He wants children to be raped all the time because it makes him happy. 
 

I know, what a sick fuck. 

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Massive trolling alert. Just report him and move on. Hes not going to seriously engage you. He’s a “libertarian” which is code for boot licking red hat wearing fascist 

I can't tell if this thread has drawn in a weak troll or if there is a new candidate for dumbest motherfucker on this site.  It could go either way.  I assume some of you are more familiar with his posting habits and already know.  I want to believe no one is this stupid, but then I remember that 22% of Americans voted for what is happening now.  (and yes, it's sad as fuck that only 22% amounts to some kind of mandate for complete fuckery)

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2 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

.... kids and grandkids who really appreciate the family programming of PBS Kids:

The show "Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman" was fantastic for our kids.  Very watchable for kids and parents.  Each show focused on some topic that was good to learn about in a game show format.

2 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

over 130 million people watch pbs every year

86 million american children have watched sesame street since it's debut in 1969

Those kids don’t donate!

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10 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Massive trolling alert. Just report him and move on. Hes not going to seriously engage you. He’s a “libertarian” which is code for boot licking red hat wearing fascist 

Neg and don’t engage. Fuck that guy.

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