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  • Can someone tell me why PBS no longer recieves government funding?

    Um..........Please? It seems like an incredibly stupid thing to do, considering there is quite a bit of educational programming on PBS.

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    Republicans.

    I though though they still got a little bit of money.
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    • #3
      Who needs education when you have big bombs ?
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      • #4
        Why should it have governmental funding?

        (btw, they still do get some)
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
          Why should it have governmental funding?
          I dunno....The wealth of educational programming they bring to the people?

          And how are republicans invovled in this?!
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          • #6
            Becuase by not having to sink into the muck of trying to get a high share of viewers with crap TV, they can, well, make good TV (lie having the best news broadcast in the US).
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            • #7
              PBS. TV stations that are not viable on the market deserve to sink.
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              • #8
                The wealth of educational programming they bring to the people?


                So? Its a TV station with some educational programming. Big F'ing deal. Why do I have to pay for it?

                Put that money into fixing up the public school system instead.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
                  PBS. TV stations that are not viable on the market deserve to sink.
                  AMEN!
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                  • #10
                    Shi :
                    This is the kind of conceptions that let the quality of TV sunk completely. In this domain, competition and market demands kill creativity and quality rather than helping it, because the channels need a regular audience they are sure to bring only through a combo of used methods and brainless programs.
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                    • #11
                      Excellent news, this!
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                      • #12
                        What do you pay? about 2 bucks a year.

                        given that we have one of the highest per student spending rates in the industrialized world (no, we have the highest) the problem with education is not needing more money.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
                          PBS. TV stations that are not viable on the market deserve to sink.
                          OMG....

                          I'm I the only one that realizes that quality educational programming should NOT be something people just let "sink"?

                          I mean, to promote stupidity is.....
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                          • #14
                            We all know Imran and Shi love Reality TV. and sitcoms. God Bless the market!
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                            • #15
                              In this domain, competition and market demands kill creativity and quality rather than helping it, because the channels need a regular audience they are sure to bring only through a combo of used methods and brainless programs.


                              So instead you pour money into a channel that no one watches? What insanity!
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