Oklahoma Governor defends decision to ax PBS funding

[rayg]

Oklahoma Governor Stitt defends decision to ax PBS funding over 'really problematic' LGBTQ content

https://www.foxnews.com/media/oklahoma-governor-stitt-defends-decision-axe-pbs-funding-over-really-problematic-lgbtq-content

[Allen]

The left wing is trying to infiltrate every thing.

[kj47]

Watch the lefties go NUTS over this.

[Vern Humphrey]

PBS is the propaganda arm of the Great Society. And like the Great Society, it's a total mess.

[bruce]

NPR/PBS offers good service for those who view/listen to it. Like any other broadcaster, NPR reflects its own particular social/political biases in its broadcasting. This is to be expected. NPR?PBS does not operate in isolation from the real world beyond its facilities. The decision by Oklahoma reflects these realities where the wind of political/social bias will still sweep over the plains ... but it will blow without funding from the taxpayers of Oklahoma. All in all, good all-around in Oklahoma. Maybe that wind will blow over the plains and through the halls of other state legislatures and even a few places in Washington. Sincerely. bruce.

[dryheat]

PBS like to do shows where everyone dresses up in old time clothes. 1776 stuff. Except, it's all woke now if you consider woke being making up their version of history. Lots of wonderful, highly educated people of color in high places.

[Vern Humphrey]

Here in Arkansas, NPR had a 30 second spot for a liberal commentator. Finally, they were forced to have a conservative commentator -- and picked Paul Greenberg, the Editorial page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Paul's first 30 second spot went like this, "I'm so old I can remember when an abortionist wasn't considered a hero but a criminal -- and a pretty sordid one at that."

That was his only broadcast. They canceled him. Then they tried to pretend it wasn't censorship -- they were just "changing the format."

But then they learned a lesson -- never start an argument with a man who buys his ink by the barrel.

[blackhawknj]

I gave up on PBS years ago, I found their attempts to remain "neutral" laughable, their leftwing bias always showed through.
Back in 1961 when the late Newton Minow made his famous "vast wasteland" speech, PBS-National Educational Television as it originally was-provided a refreshing alternative to commercial TV, I recall watching a Russian Language program on Channel 13 here in NJ, a program The Magic Lantern of early silent movies, some of which had remarkable special effects.