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June 22, 2005

Where is the "public" in public broadcasting?

One of the most egregious wastes of money by the government (and the competition is indeed stiff) is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This quasi-government chartered entity pays for 80% of the funding for PBS and NPR. Fat cat donors, corporations, foundations, and "contributors like you" pay the rest.

This government radio and television empire was started in the hubris following LBJ's landslide election victory in 1964. LBJ and the rest of that crowd may be dead and gone, but their programs live on.

I firmly believe that both NPR and PBS are hopelessly biased toward the socialist left and their agenda. The snobs, twits, and assholes that host and produce the programs are zealots for the whole left-wing program. Don't even try to tell me that there is any balance, cultural, political, or even racial . The news programs may have on a token spokesperson for the "opposing view" but they don't amount to much. So is Fox News you say? Yes it is biased too, but no tax payer monies go toward its production. In my humble opinion CPB should be defunded and sold off to the highest bidder.

This isn't to say that many of their radio and TV programs aren't educational, informative, or entertaining, because some are. My alma mater has WEMU-FM (89.1) which is one of the coolest radio stations in metro-Detroit. It plays jazz and other good stuff 24/7. It has one or two nationally syndicated talk show programs and NPR News on the hour, but hey, nobody is perfect. I gave WEMU a small contribution during their last fund drive and I have a whole collection of their coffee mugs to prove my long time financial support.

WUOM-FM based at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and WDET-FM based in Detroit are both lousy. The whole broadcast day is left wing talk shows. Ewwww. They get nada. Taking my tax money and giving it to Diane Rehm, Terry Gross, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, Tavis Smiley, and the rest of those ass clowns is criminal. PBS television ditto.

People aren't forced to pay tax to support Fox News, Howard Stern, MSNBC, Rhapsody, ESPN, or any other news or entertainment enterprises. So why PBS and NPR then? Why indeed.

Posted by Ali Massoud at June 22, 2005 10:32 PM

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