When conservatives get control of Congress a bill needs to be introduced to defund PBS. PBS provides a forum for trash talkers like Smiley who are handsome enough for tv, and empty headed enough too. PBS needs to stop sucking on the taxpayers teat and start funding it’s own editorial position by demonstrating it has the fund raising ability to self sustain.
It is patently absurd that public television gets a dime from taxpayers, yet is not in any way accountable to them. The public is systematically shuting off the old media. For many like me, that has to do with the ascendency of alternative media that provides real time information and non Marxist editorial content. I have not watched PBS in years and only watch ABC, NBC, and CBS when sports I want to watch are broadcast. The concept of a government sponsered TV station is as outmoded as government run health care.
