What is PBS?

The dominant reason Republicans want to kill PBS and NPR is greed.

They absolutely hate the idea of parting with one single cent.

It's that simple. Psychotic, irrational, and odious greed.

The minor issue of influence on children is trivial, but is a concern to them.

Look, if you don't want to listen to some random dude who thinks reading is cool, fair enough. But if that random dude also runs level three diagnostics on the warp core and can swap polarity on the main deflector dish with one hand tied behind his back? Yeah...you should probably pay attention.

As someone with addict parents, PBS quite literally raised me. Like it was one of the only things I could watch for free that wasn't daytime talk shows, had it not been for PBS I'd have been raised by Jerry Springer and Maury, and I imagine that some kids were.

50+ years ago Mr. Rogers spoke to Congress defining what it was to support public media. Speaking to what what it was to give comfort and a voice to kids back when it was so common to treat them as meant to be seen and not heard.

My own youngest has recently started to show signs that they've heard and, if not fully understood, at least memorized some talking points that would make Fred very sad. We need to keep these kind of programs available perhaps now more than ever.

Edit: Help do something about it... https://protectmypublicmedia.org/

Watching shows like Doctor Who and Red Dwarf on PBS in rural Idaho was a window to another, more enlightened and witty world. Mr Rogers and the Sesame Street crew taught very important lessons about compassion and empathy. Bob Ross taught us about happy little accidents and the joy and peace of painting (made even more poignant knowing he used to scream at recruits all day for a living).

I’m glad LeVar was able to bring RR back as a podcast, but the channel and idea are what’s important. I can all but guarantee if they manage to cancel it, the next bright idea will be replacing it with something religious

The Magic School Bus was my first voluntary expositions to English. I grew up in Québec, in a town near the border with Vermont/NY. We didn't have cable and one of the ways for me to see more cartoons and learn English was to tune the TV to channel 57, PBS Plattsburgh, and watch some Magic School Bus. I don't know why, maybe because it wasn't cartoons, but I was not a fan of the other shows on PBS.

I can't take anything serious from someone who unironically put NK flags and Juche in the username.

whys that guy got the NK flag in his username?? 🤨

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind." -Mr. Rogers

-Tom Morello

That's a whiplash inducing username

PBS along with CBC here in Canada was a cornerstone of my childhood.

I entered kindergarten already a reader, thanks to PBS programs like Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow. Later, as a pre-teen my local PBS offered great British sci-fi Saturday afternoons featuring Tom Baker as the lead on Doctor Who , and The Tripods .

MSB taught me it was okay to cheat in dunking contests.