This actually gives me an idea. You know how we all hear about starving kids in Africa that we need to be helping? We should start a program that collects the dog shit bags from people walking their dogs and the contents from people cleaning their litter boxes and send it to Africa for them to eat.
It would be a better option for them than eating dirt. Thus, it would be immoral for anyone to oppose the funding and execution of this program. You don't want kids in Africa to starve do you? That's what I thought.
Personally invested source, opinion discarded. Though I can imagine some old boomers out there being persuaded by Ken's argument. Despite that fact that his entire image has been crafted by PBS and livelihood depends on it existing, you know there's got to be somebody reading that and thinking "He's so knowledgeable and reasoned. Love his documentaries. We need to listen to experts like him."
In reality - assuming we're going to pretend we don't all get our news from our phones now anyway - most rural areas do get lots of TV stations, especially since the switch to digital. If a community thinks they need another broadcast TV station, they can fund their own public channel like many cities do. If the city is like 10 people and can't afford it, what about the county? What about the state? Why would this have ever been the federal government's job, in any generation?
Growing up in Iowa, one of the default rural states the left loves to mock, nobody I knew watched PBS. If they didnt have cable or satellite, it was by choice and they watched the Iowa Public Broadcast System, Turner Classic Movies, and a dozen other channels broadcast by local stations. To pretend that people's only choice was PBS is to be a comedy man.
Growing up in Iowa, one of the default rural states the left loves to mock, nobody I knew watched PBS. If they didnt have cable or satellite, it was by choice and they watched the Iowa Public Broadcast System
Okay, a couple things there friend, cuz I'm also from Iowa and you're neglecting a few things there.
Iowa Public (IPT) is a PBS affiliate.
IPT was consistently THE TOP American contributor to the Red Green Show for basically the show's entire run.
IPT most definitely holds the record for the longest continuous airing schedule of Doctor Who (beating even the BBC, who didn't air reruns during the 90's).
When SyFy tried to get an exclusive license for Doctor Who, the BBC refused ON THE BASIS of IPT's (then) 40 year continuous run of the show.
IPT was I believe the only PBS station to buy BBC 2's Neverwhere adaptation.
Friday night IPT in the 90's was legit. Red Dwarf, classic Doctor Who, and Blake's 7.
spent a good chunk of my childhood in Buchanan County, and hell, Winthrop had fiber optic internet in the early 00s, and that was a town of <1000.
we had five local stations in the 90s, KGAN(CBS) on 2, KWWL (NBC) on 7, KCRG(ABC) on 9, IPTV(PBS) on 12/13(I think?!?), and I forget the fox affiliate on 28 (later it was KFXA on 40).
I watched PBS, but only at my great grandma's house because she had cable. All we could get on the antenna at my house was Fox and UPN (and sometimes CBS on a good day). And my hometown was ~30,000 in population. (Southeast New Mexico though, not Iowa)
you know there's got to be somebody reading that and thinking "He's so knowledgeable and reasoned. Love his documentaries. We need to listen to experts like him."
Does Burns even know about that newfangled Internet thing? One can access the world's entire information/educational/entertainment systems from almost anywhere on this planet now.
...having also grown up in rural iowa, the sarcasm is more than appropriate...
PBS was one of five channels when i was a kid, and that was in the eighties/nineties when the internet was still mostly dial up BBS systems...
even then, newspapers, radio, and word-of-mouth were still a thing.
these idiots really think farmers are inbred hicks who see cellphones as evil witchcraft or something...
addendum almost forgot. in the early 2000s, the town i lived in as a kid, then occupied by my grandmother, was right in the path AT&T was building a large fiber optic network through, so my grandmother had highspeed internet when most towns were lucky to get dial-up, making this whole concept painfully stupid...
They really can't help themselves. Sneering, classist elitism permeates everything they do, say, and think. It's not just who they are but what they are.
I mean, I can't lie and say I didn't watch a lot of PBS in my poor backwoods youth because it was literally the only non-adult (news, soaps, etc) TV available. Even when I was well above the age for its very young demo, it was still preferable to the incredibly boredom of those alternatives.*
Which makes it even more evil that they try to use it to push their politics now. I get legitimately mad thinking about how the simple nonsense I used to watch is now also a vehicle to sell their gay nonsense to literal toddlers.
*Most of these days it was either too hot, humid or too many bugs to do anything outside. Because the swamp is fun.
I have fond memories of watching shows like Dragon Tales, Between the Lions, Cyberchase and Wordgirl growing up. There was a lot to love about old PBS. But of course, they're banking on us associating our nostalgia with the new regime's propaganda.
Think you might be confusing it for another show. The only three hosts of the show are all still alive. It might make national news and be a massive day of mourning whenever Steve eventually goes.
Having nothing at all for media is an improvement over having nothing at all other than PBS & NPR.
Satellite internet access renders moot this reasoning anyway.
This actually gives me an idea. You know how we all hear about starving kids in Africa that we need to be helping? We should start a program that collects the dog shit bags from people walking their dogs and the contents from people cleaning their litter boxes and send it to Africa for them to eat.
It would be a better option for them than eating dirt. Thus, it would be immoral for anyone to oppose the funding and execution of this program. You don't want kids in Africa to starve do you? That's what I thought.
Personally invested source, opinion discarded. Though I can imagine some old boomers out there being persuaded by Ken's argument. Despite that fact that his entire image has been crafted by PBS and livelihood depends on it existing, you know there's got to be somebody reading that and thinking "He's so knowledgeable and reasoned. Love his documentaries. We need to listen to experts like him."
In reality - assuming we're going to pretend we don't all get our news from our phones now anyway - most rural areas do get lots of TV stations, especially since the switch to digital. If a community thinks they need another broadcast TV station, they can fund their own public channel like many cities do. If the city is like 10 people and can't afford it, what about the county? What about the state? Why would this have ever been the federal government's job, in any generation?
Growing up in Iowa, one of the default rural states the left loves to mock, nobody I knew watched PBS. If they didnt have cable or satellite, it was by choice and they watched the Iowa Public Broadcast System, Turner Classic Movies, and a dozen other channels broadcast by local stations. To pretend that people's only choice was PBS is to be a comedy man.
Okay, a couple things there friend, cuz I'm also from Iowa and you're neglecting a few things there.
Friday night IPT in the 90's was legit. Red Dwarf, classic Doctor Who, and Blake's 7.
An affiliate yes, but their programming was independent and superior, thus nobody watched the Fed's slop.
spent a good chunk of my childhood in Buchanan County, and hell, Winthrop had fiber optic internet in the early 00s, and that was a town of <1000.
we had five local stations in the 90s, KGAN(CBS) on 2, KWWL (NBC) on 7, KCRG(ABC) on 9, IPTV(PBS) on 12/13(I think?!?), and I forget the fox affiliate on 28 (later it was KFXA on 40).
I watched PBS, but only at my great grandma's house because she had cable. All we could get on the antenna at my house was Fox and UPN (and sometimes CBS on a good day). And my hometown was ~30,000 in population. (Southeast New Mexico though, not Iowa)
I hate boomers so much.
Does Burns even know about that newfangled Internet thing? One can access the world's entire information/educational/entertainment systems from almost anywhere on this planet now.
1973 was 52 years ago. Like, do they really think this is a compelling argument?
...having also grown up in rural iowa, the sarcasm is more than appropriate...
PBS was one of five channels when i was a kid, and that was in the eighties/nineties when the internet was still mostly dial up BBS systems...
even then, newspapers, radio, and word-of-mouth were still a thing.
these idiots really think farmers are inbred hicks who see cellphones as evil witchcraft or something...
addendum almost forgot. in the early 2000s, the town i lived in as a kid, then occupied by my grandmother, was right in the path AT&T was building a large fiber optic network through, so my grandmother had highspeed internet when most towns were lucky to get dial-up, making this whole concept painfully stupid...
They really can't help themselves. Sneering, classist elitism permeates everything they do, say, and think. It's not just who they are but what they are.
I mean, I can't lie and say I didn't watch a lot of PBS in my poor backwoods youth because it was literally the only non-adult (news, soaps, etc) TV available. Even when I was well above the age for its very young demo, it was still preferable to the incredibly boredom of those alternatives.*
Which makes it even more evil that they try to use it to push their politics now. I get legitimately mad thinking about how the simple nonsense I used to watch is now also a vehicle to sell their gay nonsense to literal toddlers.
*Most of these days it was either too hot, humid or too many bugs to do anything outside. Because the swamp is fun.
I have fond memories of watching shows like Dragon Tales, Between the Lions, Cyberchase and Wordgirl growing up. There was a lot to love about old PBS. But of course, they're banking on us associating our nostalgia with the new regime's propaganda.
Or simply not paying attention at all, and hoping we will just let the kids watch unmonitered because "how could Blue's Clues be a problem?"
I remember Blue's Clues more for the unnerving tendency of its hosts to off themselves.
Think you might be confusing it for another show. The only three hosts of the show are all still alive. It might make national news and be a massive day of mourning whenever Steve eventually goes.
Oh, I see what's going on. Steve Burns's death turned out to be a hoax. That's where I was misinformed and thought the Blue's Clues show was cursed.
Happens to the best of us, brother.
Most of my extended family is "rural" and they all have had satellite dishes for decades and are rapidly swapping them out for Starlink and streaming.
They're not watching PBS.
Is it 1972?