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."
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.