• zabadoh@ani.social
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    6 months ago

    That’s what NPR and PBS were supposed to be, but they’re so perpetually underfunded that they’re almost commercial stations. edit: with corporate sponsors and viewer funding pledge drives.

    Some public stations have been taken over by right wing orgs that came in with massive funding.

    Gift link to SF Chronicle article
    archived version

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      6 months ago

      This is where we got MSG round brown Ross and his happy little mountains after he stoped yelling, never stopped being an American veteran

      How you gonna attack happy little mountain brushes?

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        Bob Ross’ show ended 30 years ago, and PBS and NPR funding has declined even more as a proportion of operating costs since then.

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          Seems like an issue one might fix as a campaign bullet point, no?

          Vote for me and we’ll keep Bob and Fred and educational stuff free to every tv. Crom knows the only way I became a hitchhiker instead of a missionary was shows on PBS like Red Dwarf, no network is gonna air that at 0300