How one of our public broadcasters uses my taxes

[Alexander's Horse]

What will they think of next?



This station was originally set up to reach out to ethnic communities.

Could something like this exist without taxpayer money? I doubt it.

[Ban Kenobi]

Australian culture is... interesting.

[Alexander's Horse]

They should meet.

[Dinner]

That sounds itchy.

[Alexander's Horse]

she keeps knitting even when menstruating, this woman has issues but like a lot of people with issues, she believes society should change, not her

[Uncle Sparky]

"This sweater smells funny..."

[Alexander's Horse]

I should add our ethnic communities our very conservative morally and sexually, what they make of this being on SBS I can only guess.

http://www.sbs.com.au/

My parents think SBS is a porn channel, all those racy European "fillums"...

[molly bloom]

My parents think SBS is a porn channel, all those racy European "fillums"...

Most of them are just your average arthouse film in Europe- not even terribly explicit. I thought S.B.S. was a great channel when I was living in Melbourne and I really admired their approach to news and to showing foreign programming in its original language. I also enjoyed stories about Australia's history, like the one on Adaminaby.

In 1957, the rural NSW town of Adaminaby was drowned beneath Lake Eucumbene, the largest of the dams created by the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric scheme.The historic township was the centre of the district with a close community of families, many of whom had lived in the area for five generations. The authority largely ignored these close connections the people of the town had when they were relocated 8 km away and the old town was abandoned. This documentary shows how the a place was lost and a community was dislocated for the sake of national interest.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/16534871?q&versionId=19408158

That said, the vaginal knitting thing could have been found on Channel 4 in its early days and we've had much more explicit stuff shown on Channel 5 and even during Channel 4's 'Eurotrash'.

I find performance art all a bit dull these days.

[Hauldren Collider]

PBS and NPR are ****ing terrible and they need to stop taking my tax money
Not a surprise to me that the Australian equivalents are also bad.

[Dinner]

HC needs to die in a fire because NPR and PBS are both great. BTW only ~10% of NPR's budget comes from the government and most of that is competitive grants which anyone in the media can compete for. So rather than whining about the $0.01 you pay to NPR & PBS per year, or pretending that your significant in their funding in any way, why don't you actually learn wtf you're talking about instead?

[Ban Kenobi]

PBS is still better than 99% of the crap they put on for-profit television channels.

[rah]

Just because it's better shouldn't count for anything with regards to public funding. HBO wins more Emmys than other channel (I believe) and it doesn't need tax-payer money.

Stick to the argument that it provides a service that wouldn't be provided if it didn't exist.

AND Even that argument is getting thin these days with the proliferation of cable channels.

I personally don't believe that PBS should be getting any tax dollars.

I do believe it's a bright spot on TV and contribute frequently.

[Hauldren Collider]

PBS is still better than 99% of the crap they put on for-profit television channels.

This is possibly true. And I would be just as pissed if they were funded by the government. If you like it so much, you can pay for it. Don't force it on me through congress.

[Ban Kenobi]

This is possibly true. And I would be just as pissed if they were funded by the government. If you like it so much, you can pay for it. Don't force it on me through congress.

Suck my dick if you don't like having a couple cents taken out of your taxes to pay for a television channel.

[Hauldren Collider]

Suck my dick if you don't like having a couple cents taken out of your taxes to pay for a television channel.

Suck my dick if you don't like having a couple cents taken out of your taxes for (insert all sorts of myriad ridiculous things here). The question is not about scale. Our government budget is composed of tens of thousands of things that only take a couple cents out of my taxes. You can't defend NPR and PBS being funded by the government. Gribbler, the defense you have posited could be extended to justify any amount of government intrusion up to and including a completely state-run economy. The best you can say about PBS and NPR is that they aren't the biggest massive waste of taxpayer money.