Defund NPR, PBS?

[dudalb]

Speaking of Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown...anyone see her new add where she opines about wanting California to be like it was in 1980 when her and her husband moved there, and when anything was possible...1980 when JERRY BROWN was GOVERNOR.

Classic.

TAM

Last night on our local PBS Station..which, being in Sacramento gives a LOT of coverage to California poltiics...there was a panal on the Governor's race, and even the GOP commentators were ridiculing Whitman over that one.
There has been quite a bit of dismay among GOP political professionals about how badly ran Whitman's campaign is. She has turned what should have been a easy win into what looks like a defeat.

 

[fullflavormenthol]

I think my point simply is that I don't want the airwaves to be all private all the time. Either fund public broadcasting outright or free up some of the unused and misused airwaves to the rest of us. Either way I am tired of private corporations using the public's airwaves and acting as if it is somehow their right. We could just as easily make our system like the BBC's and be done with it.

No station has a right to the airwaves...and honestly I don't understand how otherwise libertarian people seem to object to this. Perhaps people fail to realize how I like seeing documentaries that would never air on commercial television both right and left in nature. Look you get your Two and a Half Men and Monday Night Football and I get my Red Green Show and The Yankee Workshop and we call it a day. Oh and I get my evil communist liberal programs (science) too because you are using my airwaves for your crap.

You don't like that? Well stick to cable and satellite and leave the people's airwaves alone. By the way could you not show up to my national parks with your anti-socialist bumper stickers and t-shirts? I hate when people show up who are against "socialism" and enjoy those things that are reserved for everyone paid for by the tax payer while wanting to end it.

Personally I am angry that the only time I see a real documentary on Darwin is by watching BBC America. That should speak volumes of the egg shells American public television has to walk on just to please the anti-logic crowd that will get mad if we teach that a magic dragon doesn't eat the sun at night.


So it is simple...either 1 public broadcast channel or a dozen digital channels opened up in all districts for even the most insane liberal station. Which would you prefer?