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Originally Posted by headsplice
There's a difference between federally funded and government controlled. You're smarter than that, or so I thought.
What other outlets would you suggest? The internet, certainly, but that wasn't a part of the discussion at hand.
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I wouldn't actually suggest any of them.
It's all spin, just a matter of how fast and which direction you prefer.
PBS is just as much of a corporate entity as any other news service. The "P" does not stand for "Pure" and certainly isn't as "Public" as you'd like to think. Hope you liked the tote bag, but your contributions aren't paying for much, if any of their ability to provide programming. Like any subscription service, it's supported by advertising ... for the purposes of PBS, the advertisers get their 10 second spot at the beginning and ends of programs, rather than interspersed through the interrupting your viewing pleasure.