so I looked up PBS, and found these. A while back PBS was more heavily funded with govt funds. Then the Republicans raped it repeatedly, and forced it to finance itself by cutting govt funds, which threw it into the marketplace somewhat like Fox, NBC, ABC, etc. In fact, isn't the PBS CEO a Republican? I love PBS - Bill Moyers, Downton Abbey, etc., but it's always in peril, and yes, it has changed thanks to the Republican infestation in this country. It wasn't always like that. The only solution is to rid ourselves of the right wing cancer somehow.
Third, Republicans want to kill NPR because it presents high quality, unbiased, factually accurate news. These qualities do not sit well with people who want the Rupert Murdoch's and Fox News's of the world to control what the public has the right to hear. They think unbiased news coverage is subversive.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/why-the-republicans-hate_b_837481.html
Supporters of PBS have accused the GOP of aiming their guns at public broadcasting because of a perceived 'liberal bias.' The CPB’s chair Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, an avowed Republican, initiated the effort to eliminate funding. Rep. David Obey (D-WS), the ranking Democrat on the House subcommittee that voted to cut the funding, said, 'Republican leaders are trying to bring every facet of the federal government under their control.'
Isn’t it amazing how far-right ideology manages to mesh so well with the corporate agenda?
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/pbs-why-the-republicans-hate-elmo/
Public broadcasting is a great success story of modern governance. Not just in America, but the public broadcasters in Canada (CBC), Australia (ABC), Britain (BBC), Ireland (RTE), the Netherlands (NPO) and many other nations are popular, informative and even entertaining. They bring programming that for-profit broadcasters do not.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/05/1140823/-PBS-Must-Be-Killed-Because-It-Shows-Government-Works#
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