Why Big Bird Needs And Deserves Your Tax Dollars...

[Zoroastor]

This is absolutely not about budgetary issues or saving money. The right has been chomping at the bit to shut off funding to NPR and PBS for decades. http://cons-lie.com/2011/03/18/why-big-bird-needs-your-tax-dollars/

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1. In all fairness. Sessame Stree merchandising can probably fund all of PBS.

Thats a LOT of money coming in right there.

Its NPR that needs the tax dollars.

[Zoroastor]

2. Good point, but I don't know...

...running a network is probably pretty expensive.

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3. Selling commercials isn't that difficult. Its not the end of the world.

What if funding stays and the pukes come in power and mess with PBS new programs cause they are "paying for them."

Govt money means strings attached. I would rather PBS be free to do what ever it wants. Just watch what happens then!

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4. for goddess sake, you don't think commercials come with "strings attached"???

what universe have you been living in? You think commercial stations are "free to do whateverwant? :rofl:

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6. They are NOT like govt strings.

Can you think of an alternative funding scheme?
we may be stuck with finding one soon.

[bread_and_roses]

7. Your correct - "not the same" - they are worse (n/t)

[bread_and_roses]

5. I'll support "public" radio/tv when it's "public" - no corporate $$

The neither-this-nor-that mix we have doesn't work real well. And the Federal funding should be set up to be free of Party changes, etc. Then, maybe we'd see more real reporting, and less with the endless "features" which now seem to dominate 45 minutes out of the hour.