Congress Plans To Vote on Cutting Funds for Public Broadcasting

[Schlep]

Anyone with basic cable gets Discovery, National Geographic, History Channel, HGTV, BBCA, etc....I don't really see where losing PBS would be any huge deal. I think I've watched a total of about 10 hours in the past year.

[Yoshi]

If something is commercially viable, like Sesame Street, another station will pick it up. The government should not be subsidizing any of this shit, especially NPR.

[g0zen]

No way, NPR is the only thing on radio that isn't intellectually bankrupt. Everything else is bad music, garbage talk radio propaganda, or the odd screwball comedic show.

Also, NPR doesn't even really recieve much federal funding anymore. It's funded now by private organizations, and listeners like you!

[NoboruWataya]

I like Milt Rosenberg alot. Is he on NPR also? I listen to him on 720 almost every night, on saturdays the twiglight zone comes on afterwards. I'm rarely around to catch it, but I'm always pleased when I do.

[station82o]

Anyone with basic cable gets Discovery, National Geographic, History Channel, HGTV, BBCA, etc....I don't really see where losing PBS would be any huge deal. I think I've watched a total of about 10 hours in the past year.

That doesn't mean much to those people who can't afford the luxury of cable television I'd think.

[Yoshi]

That doesn't mean much to those people who can't afford the luxury of cable television I'd think.

This isn't france. We don't cater to the lowest common denominator here.

[Calliander]

I don't care either way, but if I had kids, I'd rather they watched PBS. That isn't because of the station's content as far as the shows go; rather, they wouldn't be submitted to the commercials for fast food, soda and other crap I wouldn't want them having that they would see while watching Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, etc.

NPR is the most boring thing on the planet, which means they're probably discussing important things instead of some slut who disappeared in Aruba.

[NoboruWataya]

I'm not the lowest common denominator. I just prefer to spend my limited cash on more constructive things then bile (spitting cable television).

[Calliander]

If I could get a cable package that only had CSPAN, the Mets game, and those "Growing Up" shows on Animal Planet without commercials, that'd be great.

[James]

I don't watch PBS, but I do like knowing it exists. There are people in the US without basic cable and these are exactly the kind of people who need smarter stuff like PBS supplies available to them. I'm perfectly fine with the taxes I pay going to support PBS.

James