The Washington Post suggested that PBS’s budget was cut because Sesame Street had mocked Trump.
No, it’s being cut because people who don’t watch Sesame Street shouldn’t HAVE to pay them to mock Trump. Or do anything else.
The Washington Post suggested that PBS’s budget was cut because Sesame Street had mocked Trump.
No, it’s being cut because people who don’t watch Sesame Street shouldn’t HAVE to pay them to mock Trump. Or do anything else.
Sure, and Fred Rogers testified before Congress in 1969 to defend PBS from similar budget cuts because Congress was attempting to head off Sesame Street from mocking Donald Trump some day.
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Even liberal rags know the “Trump revenge” theory is pretty thin.
“Conservatives have long targeted public broadcasting. President Nixon was accused of trying to “intimidate” and “starve” public media just a couple of years after its founding. President Reagan also proposed slashing funding as did House Speaker Newt Gingrich and President George W. Bush, who attempted to do so every year he was in office. As recently as 2011, the House of Representatives voted to defund public radio, while Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney even proposed cutting it at a debate hosted by PBS’ Jim Lehrer.”
— http://time.com/4721249/public-broadcasting-npr-pbs-funding-grassroots/
Maybe if they’re so concerned that mocking Trump (to 4 year olds) will make them lose their EBT card, they wouldn’t do it in the first place.
And PBS gets a very small percentage of its budget from the government. If they sell a few more toys, they’ll make up the money.
It’s weird. I alternately hear the arguments from the left that NPR & PBS barely gets any tax money from the government, so why bother taking it away, and also that defunding them will kill Big Bird.
Frankly, any argument for publicly funded media went away the day the NatGeo channel turned a profit. Or Nikelodeon, if you’re discussing PBS kids’ programming.
Sesame Street is not even part of PBS any more. Sesame Street is owned by HBO.