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    1. ai_art_is_art on

      This is fucked.

      I grew up with CPB-funded shows. Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow.

      What the fuck is happening.

      # Release the Epstein files!

    2. Outrageous-Pause6317 on

      I’m 55 years old. This was created for me and my generation. It was created for my children and their generation. I watched the first episode of Sesame Street with my mom and later my brother and sister; still later with my kids. I watch news, cultural shows, science tv, local broadcasts from my community. Seeing it unravel is painful.

      People masquerading as conservatives stole this precious and integral part of our national media landscape and discarded it like trash. It’s not conservative to destroy willy nilly. It’s social vandalism and nihilism. If they had any shame they’d be feeling it.

    3. DisastrousLab6302 on

      I’m at a complete loss for words over this and angry beyond the scope of my imagination that this is happening. How and why would these people put him back in the Oval! He is hell bent on destroying our country.

      Edit: This is wrong on so many levels. 52 and I grew up watching so many of the shows. Electric Company, Zoom and Sesame Street which I loved. Shout out to Don Music, who banged his head on the piano when Gen X was growing up!

    7. Alleric on

      This makes my chest hurt. The shows they produced were my only comfort in a house with too many children and not enough love. Mister Rogers and Sesame Street were my only friends as a child. Damn that bastard for ruining the magic for future generations.

    11. stickeeBit on

      Would love to see CBC Canada makesome sort of an agreement for rights to broadcast PBS content online for our southern neighbors.

    12. Ok_Adhesiveness_9565 on

      I’m really disappointed, I thought for sure there would be some jillionaire who would step up to the plate and save them. This hits hard.

    13. HeliumTankAW on

      This one hurts so much. This year has been filled with horrors and atrocities I never thought I’d see in this country but this one is just…..ya know even if we can somehow survive this presidency and start to pick up the pieces some things cant be repaired and I believe this is one of those things. Just like with the national parks you cant get it back once its been sold for timber its just like soo hard to try to not be utterly devastated and defeated with the state of things. „Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping“ but god it feels so hopeless.

    15. BillDauterive on

      What I dont understand is that Alice Walton has been on there showing off her Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and is worth 100 billion or more. She could fund this by herself.

    16. Economy-Size-5439 on

      Don’t worry everyone! Trump will broadcast great programming from his brand new $200 million ball room and / or his $1b Qatari plane!

    17. rwinger24 on

      Expect more fast paced Cocomelon slop and garbage baited by dumb parents who have no media literacy.

    18. 44problems on

      The CPB only exists to hand out congressional funds, and those are now zero.

      PBS, NPR, local stations, those all still exist… For now. But even if new Congresses and administrations reverse course money will have to be spent spinning it back up if it ever exists again.

      I think public media in this country need to look at merging to survive. PBS and NPR have separate programming and news capabilities that can be combined. Big cities have competing public radio stations, or one organization owning a classical station and another owning the news station. Separate fundraising, real estate, benefits, everything.

      I love the decentralized nature of public media in this country, but that depended on an overall organization like the CPB to make grants and give support. Support like having a blanket license for music rights for all of public broadcasting. That’s gone now.

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