Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down

[CLAX1911]

They weren't watching FOX News thank heavens, they were watching our local PBS stations with classes K-12 by local teachers using the state curriculum and when tested in the spring and fall the scores were up to par with previous years.

And I'm sure that was all on the up and up.

 

[RobertU]

I wonder if some conservatives would support public broadcasting if the "fairness doctrine" was reinstituted just for that segment. That was a policy, repealed in 1987, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.

 

[CLAX1911]

Sounds like you have no problem letting children outside of your household fall victim to predators.

So children need PBS or they'll be victims?

Sadly, your view is common among republicans. Thankfully, it is uncommon outside of republicans.

Your view is incoherent.

 

[CLAX1911]

I wonder if some conservatives would support public broadcasting if the "fairness doctrine" was reinstituted just for that segment. That was a policy, repealed in 1987, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.

No. I didn't think the government needs to broadcast

 

[Deuce]

Right wing fascists taking over all media.

 

[Deuce]

I wonder if some conservatives would support public broadcasting if the "fairness doctrine" was reinstituted just for that segment. That was a policy, repealed in 1987, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.

They don't want fairness. They want America to only hear far-right presentation on any issue.

 

[RobertU]

They don't want fairness. They want America to only hear far-right presentation on any issue.

Well, what about the reverse? If the Democrats regain control of Congress and the White House, should they incorporate a fairness doctrine if they renew financing for public stations?

 

[Absentglare]

So children need PBS or they'll be victims?

Your view is incoherent.

Public services like schools and libraries provide valuable learning resources to children like books, songs, and tv shows.

It is valuable for at least some of those resources to be independent of any profit motive, their purpose ought to be to enrichment and not extraction.

 

[rhinefire]

Parents should take care of their children. Not NPR, or BPS. Suck it up and raise your kids. No need to put them in front of a television.

Does the word "PUBLIC" clarify anything for you?

 

[TamleeB]

Does the word "PUBLIC" clarify anything for you?

I don’t need clarification. NPR and PBS lost their funding from our tax dollars. Thankfully.

 

[rhinefire]

I don’t need clarification. NPR and PBS lost their funding from our tax dollars. Thankfully.

Yes you do. Your tax dollars paid for the wall that your boy said Mexico will pay for and the gold plating of the Oval Office let alone the refurbishing of the Arab commercial airliner given to Trump. How proud you must be. You're OK with losing the culture/education network says it all.

 

[TamleeB]

Yes you do. Your tax dollars paid for the wall that your boy said Mexico will pay for and the gold plating of the Oval Office let alone the refurbishing of the Arab commercial airliner given to Trump. How proud you must be. You're OK with losing the culture/education network says it all.

I am open to you showing where I made statements regarding the gold plating in the Oval Office, or the airplane? By the way, why are you attempting to change the actual subject of this thread?
And since you mentioned it, yes….I am a very proud retired American woman.

 

[Helix]

I wonder if some conservatives would support public broadcasting if the "fairness doctrine" was reinstituted just for that segment. That was a policy, repealed in 1987, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.

NPR did that often during the first term of the current administration. They had so many lying cultists on there that I had to stop listening. The place for the far right to lie their asses of is faux, not on my radio.

 

[Airyaman]

I’ve never heard Trump on the National Weather Service.

Speaking of...DOGE was such a failure.