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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it's that good, it can stand on its own, right?[/quote]

NP, no it can’t. PBS stations don’t run advertising and what they air has education value and not commercial value. Many stations can survive via fund raising but in remote areas the money isn’t there. [/quote]

The CEO of pbs lives in a mansion outside Roundhill.

Long overdue to let them stand on their own

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There are a lot of rural communities like rural Kansas where public broadcasting is the only way they have to get local news, weather, high school sports, agricultural updates and so on.  Smoky Hills PBS serves 1.2 Kansans over 71 counties.  They are going to be gutted, losing half of their budget.

Seems Trump gives even less of a shit about rural "flyover country" than the democrats do.[/quote]

Except the inconvenient truth is that all these rural NPR stations are just rebroadcasting programming feeds from NPR production hubs in Boston, DC, LA,  Chicago or NYC. There’s almost NO truly “local” news content on these stations each day. They’re just re-broadcasting All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, RadioLab, etc. They might do a few minutes each week of actual, locally created content. Other than that, it’s all NPR syndicated programming.

During the flooding events in Texas in early July, the local NPR station wasn’t even staffed when the flood warnings went out. They made no mention of it all because they were in automated overnight programming.

That’s how NPR is “serving” rural communities. By being a re-broadcast conduit for urban programming from big cities. A total failure of their duty to inform local communities. [/quote]

And there it is.  Boom. [/quote]

The real inconvenient truth is that those of you crowing about this support autocracy.  You don't want informed citizens.  You want RWNJ lies and propaganda.  Y[b]ou are ruining this country[/b].

They can't see this. They believe Trump is making things better. Sorry, we won't great again anytime soon.

They don't think like great Americans anymore. I guess this country always had the sludge population [/quote]

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