Average PBS schedule: >12 hours of kids shows with subtle liberal propoganda >PBS Nightly News sponsored by the Democrat party >BBC news telecast for some reason ft. globalists >Marathon of old people selling useless junk - the reality show >Telethon - gib me money pls >some shitty opera or theater program >science/nature documentary about muh climate change >random episode of forgotten BBC shitcom from 1992 >Telethon #2 - pls gib more $$$$ >random episode of mid-2000s BBC crime drama that is essentially CSI or Law and Order with accents >some fucking history documentary about Democrats being good and Republicans being bad >30 minutes of watching paint dry
Wow. Yeah, this DEFINITELY needs to be funded with billions of taxpayer dollars and not outright shut down.
Friendly reminder pbs no longer airs >Mr Rogers >reading rainbow >wishbone >between the lions >zoom >classic sesame street (modern is literally movie parodies) >classic Arthur >cyber chase with based Christopher Lloyd Children have nothing entertaining AND educational to watch.
Joshua Myers
>subtle Check WordGirl, my man.
>sassy bright superheroine of color >with a vibrantly diverse posse >the only noble white in the show is some crippled faggot who can't even wipe his own ass without the aid of some charitable PoC >all the other whites belong to some dastardly Aryan family that's always lying, stealing, and cheating, until they're thwarted by the show's dynamic shitskin superhero team I don't think Pravda could've made up bullshit like this.
It's also produced by the same people who made "Home Movies", a Cartoon Network show featuring a single mom with a black baby whose ex-husband was played by Louis CK.
Isaac Jones
Fox News got you all upset over a tiny fraction of the federal budget eh goy? Don't worry about that massive military budget, we're protecting your freedom™!
Hunter Hernandez
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Angel Murphy
Shut up
Angel Parker
we need to bomb those farmers tho user, for better approval numbers from the imperialistic american public
Brayden Taylor
It's only a matter of time until we see a transgender muppet
Christopher Sanders
That didn't work for Obama when he bombed school children
Justin Cooper
Why not just force them to produce more conservative programming?
Xavier Hughes
>subtle liberal propoganda PBS was literally all my mom let me watch until I was maybe 6 or 7 and I'm right wing as fuck.
Samuel Ross
>Billions of taxpayer doller >CPB’s current federal appropriation request is $446 million
Top kek user.
Jaxon Bennett
>poltard >complains about childrens cartoons for 5 year olds and has deep insights into their plots and characters
Aaron Ortiz
pan nice and tested
Caleb Ward
I really liked cyberchase
Daniel Ortiz
>$446 million Still $446 million too much
Ethan Collins
You poor bastard
Ethan Hernandez
need more money for corporate tax breaks and for tomahawk missiles
Gabriel Gomez
I see the "make people feel okay with gutting PBS" campaign has started.
James Thompson
I have a solution for you!
pic related
Nolan Davis
>billions literally half billion pays for pbs and npr. I like british crime dramas and am happy to be a contributor and pay taxes for those who cant afford it. I grew up without cable tv. PBS was my bread and butter, as I imagine it was for anyone too poor to have cable. Its quality broadcasting done dirt cheap and provided to all, literally god tier. no other broadcaster offers better return on investment.
and as far as leftist cuckery goes its far tamer than the "your wife will leave you and take your house if you dont buy viagra" commercials on normal tv.
Wyatt Butler
Sup pimple pete ! Would you prefer a channel for your fucking shitty ass anime and man baby movies. Fucking nigger trumper
Kevin Ramirez
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Wyatt Smith
>PBS programming is no longer the same as it was 20 years ago absolutely astounding user. I didnt see that coming
Logan Scott
PBS used to be really based in the 90's.
>Mr Rogers >Bob Ross reruns >pre-cucked Sesame Street >Nature >Nova >PBS Mystery, you would get stuff like Granada Sherlock Holmes, or Poirot, or Inspector Morse >Keeping up Appearances reruns >occasional broadcasts of operas or some kind of unique show with only intermissions inbetween to sell the thing and shill for the channel's money (I once saw the Blue Man Group on there) >occasional Monty Python and Fawlty Towers >decent children's stuff like Cyber Chase, Clifford, Barney, Theodore the Tugboat, Noddy Shop >Charlie Rose was in his prime, and hadn't been bought by CBS yet >PBS News Hour was still about news, and was the last straight news show on the air when the rest of them became overglorified entertainment in the 00's, Jim Lehrer was still the main anchor and head of the show
Honestly, PBS really was worth it back then. But sadly, PBS these days is no longer the PBS that Mr Rogers defended. And while being "viewer supported" and Govt funded was originally supposed to keep it neutral, it's clear that this failed. because the big organizations and (((non-profits))) that contribute obviously influence it.
Not to mention PBS is run by Paula (((Kerger))) and WNET, the NY/NJ broadcaster affiliate is run by Neal (((Shapiro)))
A&E also used to show opera and theatre and is now Duck Dynasty and Storage Wars: the channel.
I blame libtards and jews dumbing down the country with lowbrow degenerate programming.
Kevin Powell
how many bannon bucks you getting?
Lincoln Gonzalez
God damn liberal ass Sesame Street teaching our kids to count and the alphabet. THOSE COMMIE BASTARDS.
On the plus side no commercials from snake oil salesmen. >pic unrelated
Jason Flores
commercials are the unspoken jew. >yes goy drink lots of liquor, you cant get laid without it. >Erectile dysfuntion is going to happen to you and will make your wife leave you. >Help all the struggling refugees and gays by drinking your favorite soft drink. >If you buy this toy your parents will give you attention
Mason Bennett
>Mr Rogers >Based Explain.
Kayden Ramirez
You mean I can actually buy something to make my parents love me?
Joseph Ward
gibs me money first and we'll see :^)
Ryder Gray
No. Arts programming on television failed because the average American is too stupid to care about that stuff and the free market dictated that shitty reality programming is what made the most advertising revenue and got the most viewers. Blame capitalism, not some liberal bogeyman.
But nine of thier new programming is better, yet they get much more tax dollars than they did back then. So where is the extra money going?
Kayden Bailey
>One digit off.
Dude it's okay to admit that this was a stupid and pointless cut to the federal budget. You don't need to do mental gymnastics to rationalize it.
Matthew Barnes
>But nine of thier new programming is better Frontline, PBS Newhour, American Experience, NOVA, American Masters, and Great Performances are all GOAT tier still.
>yet they get much more tax dollars than they did back then Source?
Parker Murphy
No. Liberals clearly ruined it with propaganda. PBS doesn't have to "compete", you fucking goof. They are publicly funded. What are you even talking about?
Justin Anderson
what is inflation. You probably watch as much much kids tv as I do. Super Why is okay though.
Michael Clark
Don't forget based Ghost Writer. Man, they don't make kids shows like that anymore.
Dominic Hill
PBS still has some corporate sponsorship for certain programs that wouldn't be there if nobody was watching.
I was referring more to A&E (and other networks like Bravo, Discovery, History, TLC, Nat Geo, etc.) getting dumbed down. Was that the libs too?
Zachary James
they still get money back from merchandising, faggot. still have to get ratings to sell merch.
The perception is that employees get paid to do nothing. In reality public stations operate with minimal essential employees and shoestring budgets. its a more cost effective system than anything you could find in commercial television, it also caters to a niche and doesnt degrade itself like any commercial station whoring themselves for ratings
Mason Martin
>I was referring more to A&E (and other networks like Bravo, Discovery, History, TLC, Nat Geo, etc.) getting dumbed down. Was that the libs too?
Essentially. Those networks' decline from arts and culture and educational programming to utter trash targeted to the lowest common denominator indeed the work of a systematic progressive and globalist effort to dumb down our society and make us complacent to government whims via mass media sources.
Luis James
>source Bush and Obama greatly expanded the PBS and NPR budgets. It's virtually impossible to find since google has become a propaganda outlet, and I don't have the time or patience to look for the pdfs in the propaganda search results.
Find a year-by-year budget and you will see how much dough they've been raking in during the Bushbama Era.
Jace Clark
middle class educated audiences got sick of constant pandering through commercials and emigrated to streaming services as they became available. Older and poorer demographics stayed watching television and no longer had interest in higher brow education. The irony is that streaming entertainment still sucks and there is basically no source left for type of entertainment whatsoever. The only one is a independent station that broadcasts operas, thats why it will always have my support despite being free
Hudson Cook
t. Bolshedick
Jason Parker
>le free market capitalism is bad and made media stupid Stop
Fucking libtards I swear. You're literally running an active campaign for degeneracy and the death of culture and are too stupid to realize it.
It's all your fault.
Brody Turner
free market capitalism is allowing commercials to erode western values at a rate far quicker than anything shown on PBS. inb4 commie, I think capitalism is historically the best economic system but I wont ignore its less ideal side effects see
Samuel Gonzalez
But free market capitalism had nothing to do with the death of arts and culture in mass media and society at large.
Commercials are just the price you pay for freedom.
Liam Carter
>But free market capitalism had nothing to do with the death of arts and culture in mass media no but unsurprisingly the cheapest products are oftentimes the worst for us to consume. and a degredation of the value of education through television and commercials makes us more suspeptible to advertising and less interested in more challenging content. This society is fucked because we are lazy and shortsighted, we want to chase the capitalist dream with none of the sacrifice that it recquires to succeed. This is why countries who have taken up these values (asia) are bridging the gap and were losing influence. Capitalism was our best weapon but we let it degenerate us
Parker James
Whether you like it or not I think PBS should remain. The fact that all of American Media is owned by FIVE COMPANIES. is pretty scary.
Nicholas White
NOVA, check please, and nature are comfy though. It's the only tv watch nowadays.
Grayson Anderson
>But free market capitalism had nothing to do with the death of arts and culture in mass media and society at large.
Please tell me you're joking. You honestly don't see the correlation between special interest groups manipulating the market and in turn manipulating the public conscious to further their control over said market?
Jonathan James
Bannon bucks aren't really currency in that it only purchases self-respect. More Bannon Barter Tokens if anything.
Dylan Campbell
Why are neckbeards so easily offended by television?
Jason King
>it's another "Sup Forums can't into anything remotely highbrow or arts, culture, educational programming related" episode
Sad! This board is filled with too many meme shitposters and Sup Forums and /r/thedonald retards spouting their bullshit everywhere.
Kevin Lewis
But we don't have to take YOUR word for it. Right?
Luke Myers
the funny part comes where they dismiss you for using this meme. of course memes are good when the work to a right slanted confirmation bias.
Gavin Scott
>Sup Forums complains about "muh degeneracy" and the death of culture >trashes the only main media source actively supporting the fine arts and producing remotely highbrow programming
Really makes you think...
Jace Richardson
Fuck you idiot. I bet you didn't support Trump and probably supported Hilary like the good goyim you are, fucking retard.
Easton Morgan
hahahahaha, yes goy make your choice between the two pro isreal candidates. Trump will put america first and never involve us in frivelous foreign conflicts like hillary oh wait
Christopher Anderson
>PBS >supporting the fine arts and producing remotely highbrow programming
Pick one faggot
the propaganda has gotten to you real good
Jayden Thomas
>Implying I fell for the lie shit pie vs shit cake propaganda
Thanks for failing to refute my point though.
Nathan White
So what channel would be better, the History channel where they have shows that talk about the citizens of Atlantis being the descendants to Jesus who turned evil and chasing UFO's?
PBS is aimed toward people in the inner city, giving them role models instead of stuff like the History channel is better in the long run.
Luis Sanders
I have less of a problem with Public Television but National Public Radio has got to go.
It’s straight-up Leftist Public Radio and it’s being funded by _all_ our tax dollars and that’s bullshit.
Unless you’d be cool with creating a tax payer funded Rightwing mirror-image version of NPR with Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Riley, you can fuck right off.
Charles Hughes
PR does fund leftist political shows but thats a miniscule part of what they actually do and it recieves like 99% of the attention. Don't be retarded.
Aiden Gray
t. soros shill spreading misinfo about npr to make it seem legitimate
Levi Rogers
It doesn't matter how much or little attention it receives, it's constitutionally and morally wrong to force ALL Americans to fund blatantly biased programming.
I don't agree with NPR's politics, yet MY tax dollars are going to fund propaganda that directed against ME.
Again; unless you're willing to also fund extreme Rightwing radio with your tax dollars, you're a hypocrite and can fuck off.
Kayden Hernandez
If the free market can't support it, it doesn't deserve to exist.
Landon Myers
what's a soros?
Ethan Murphy
I've watched PBS, it's not any more liberal than it was back in the 60's when they were airing fat albert. Not everything is directed against you.
Nolan Stewart
>If the free market can't support it, it doesn't deserve to exist.
This is how The Learning Channel turns into Honey Boo Boo and how A&E goes from Shakespeare productions to Duck Dynasty.
The free market wants garbage that appeals to the lowest common denominator.
Alexander Martinez
lol what a triggered little bitch you must be
Henry King
>watching TV channels >2017
How?
My TV is literally just an extended screen I stream movies to.
I haven't watched a TV channel in years and I don't understand how anyone in the first world can chose to do so.
Samuel James
>Sup Forums thin ks that showing nonwhite people existing is propaganda also fuck you, home movies was good
Jason Cruz
>THEY DONT SHOW MUH SHOWS ANYMORE >WAAAH TEACHING KIDS THAT BROWN PEEPL EXIST AND SHARING IS GOOD ARE LIBRUL BRAINWASHINGS >HURR MUH ECHO BRACKETS >RANDOM NONSEQUITUR ABOUT A&E, BUT IT'S ALSO TEH LIBRULS FAULT what a shit post
Easton Moore
Regardless of whether YOU watch tv or not, you have to admit that the government is spending a sizable amount of money funding this waste of space propaganda content that is influencing many Americans worldwide. Particularly infecting the over 30 demographic (highest voter turnout) by trying to turn them liberal.
Hunter Baker
>propaganda you keep saying that like it's true. surely you have some examples you can post
Joshua Ross
The only problem with PBS is that they accept dirty money from right-wing billionaires like Richard Mellon Scaife and the Koch Brothers
Elijah Taylor
literally everything Ive said can be verified. quit taking the easy way out fag, our country's suffering for it
Jack Garcia
We just need to use a larger bomb. The problem with all the bombs we've been using for the past twenty years is they're not large enough.
Kevin Gray
also need to quit giving them femenized names. M(other)OAB? tf is this shit
Matthew Gomez
TAHT'S WHY LE BASED RUSSIA HAS TEH FOTHER XD SO MANLY AMIRITE
Ryder Flores
Watch their programs. They ALL have blatant liberal agendas disguised as unbiased news or factual/educational/historical programming.
Easton Hughes
LIBRULS
Josiah Diaz
Joe How exactly is a "bigger bomb" going to be a more humanitarian approach? Are you indeed so daft that perhaps you believe this to be true? Foolish... Tis the exact opossite of the truth!
Aiden Ortiz
I don't know about that man. I kinda like Nova.
Aiden Green
nope sorry, specific examples please, none of this "it's EEEEVERYTHING" idiocy
Carter Thomas
Have you even watched it recently? Look at PBS Newshour. The leftist-bias slant isn't even being hid anymore when in the past someone like Gwen Ifill (R.I.P.) would ask hard questions to both sides to give at least somewhat an appearance of impartiality.
I see no way to insure non-biased programing on PBS, unless you let the President completely replace all of PBS’ staff and programming every 4-8 years and that’s just not a practical way to run a tv/radio network and as it’s morally and constitutionally wrong for force Americans tax payers to fund openly biased political speech, PBS must become privately funded.
But you’d be free to give them as much of YOUR money as you please.
Yeah, I thought so…
Jordan Collins
You have to go back
Ayden Diaz
>random episode of mid-2000s BBC crime drama that is essentially CSI or Law and Order with accents Hey Tunnel was good
Aaron Gray
>BBC news telecast for some reason KEKT
Nolan Bennett
Apparently when you take even a step in the other direction you elect game show hosts as president to make Jared Kushner richer and (probably, when the approval ratings get too low) start the iran war
David Cruz
>PBS program comes on the Sup Forumsack shifts angrily in his chair unable to move due to his enormous size >a man in glasses starts talking about the horrors of slavery the Sup Forumsack purposefully knocks his tendies to the floor and releases a guttural moan indicating anger >another program comes on this decrying the nazi party and hitler himself the Sup Forumsack screeches and violently shakes, excrement pouring down his legs. "muh 12 gorillion" he shouts at no one >an economist talks about how india has an incredibly high growth rate in its gdp the Sup Forumsack's spasms become even more severe. "Poo in the loo" he cries, the irony of him sitting in his own filth is lost on him >the economist's name appears on screen it reads 'dr.Greenburg' the Sup Forumsack spews cheeto dust from his mouth "where does (((he))) get off spreading lies?" >the production company's logo appears on screen reading "A Steinburg Brothers Production the Sup Forumsack howls in pain at the perceived slights and begins angrily crafting the next chapter in his novel
Julian Myers
Frontline is based tho
Gabriel Hughes
If by based you mean overrated left-leaning schlock of "investigative journalism", then yes