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What is PBS?
It’s a public broadcast service in the US. See more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS
Basically America’s version of the BBC in the UK, or the ABC in Australia, or the CBC in Camada.
Public channel for educational shows. Specifically the post shows PBS Kids stuff. I grew up on that shit
Not quite. PBS is not owned by the state and is not a state media apparatus. It does receive some government funding.
Yeah, well, IBS raised me!
50+ years ago Mr. Rogers spoke to Congress defining what it was to support public media. Speaking to what what it was to give comfort and a voice to kids back when it was so common to treat them as meant to be seen and not heard.
My own youngest has recently started to show signs that they’ve heard and, if not fully understood, at least memorized some talking points that would make Fred very sad. We need to keep these kind of programs available perhaps now more than ever.
You’re leaving out the part about how his speech brought a congressman who was previously against the funding to tears
Also the part where fox literally called him an evil man. If you’re opposing Fred fucking neighborly Rogers, you’re on the wrong side of history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iljhDaowoLc&t=68s&pp=2AFEkAIB
How dare he tell children that they’re special!
Fascinating. I have never seen a fox and friends segment before, and listening to it I honestly couldn’t guess when this aired except it was after his passing in 2003. It’s interesting that so many of them were laughing when someone called him evil though. Gives off this feeling they don’t even believe it themselves but it was just their improv, Whose Line is it Anyway prompt.
Oh and the irony of a bunch of evil people calling the nation’s most wholesome public figure evil.
Mr. Rogers would not approve of the things I should like to say to these people…
Bob Ross was a drill sergeant before his show, I’m pretty sure he and Fred would agree on denouncing nazis. Mean words are the least they deserve
IIRC Mr. Rogers was a marine, or something like that. Yeah, they were both fine with fighting for what’s right. They would just prefer kindness win out before any fighting is required.
It’s an urban myth, conflated with Bob. Bob was a USAF round brown for years, Fred signed up but was disqualified due to eyesight so same generation and intent.
Both would prefer talking to war. Anyone who’s been to war will tell you talking is better.
Except nazis. You fucking demolish them from the earth with flame
I nabbed a copy of it off of YT, at some point I need to get a peer tube or similar set up for bigger files like that. 6 minutes and change that perhaps redirected a generation’s youth.
Similarly (though obviously a different subject), I’m also a big fan of Frank Zappa’s testimony to Congress regarding censorship.
Worth watching if you’ve never seen it.
“There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” -Mr. Rogers
-Tom Morello
-Bob_Robertson_IX at discuss.tchncs.de
The Magic School Bus was my first voluntary expositions to English. I grew up in Québec, in a town near the border with Vermont/NY. We didn’t have cable and one of the ways for me to see more cartoons and learn English was to tune the TV to channel 57, PBS Plattsburgh, and watch some Magic School Bus. I don’t know why, maybe because it wasn’t cartoons, but I was not a fan of the other shows on PBS.
I entered kindergarten already a reader, thanks to PBS programs like Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow. Later, as a pre-teen my local PBS offered great British sci-fi Saturday afternoons featuring Tom Baker as the lead on Doctor Who , and The Tripods .
Look, if you don’t want to listen to some random dude who thinks reading is cool, fair enough. But if that random dude also runs level three diagnostics on the warp core and can swap polarity on the main deflector dish with one hand tied behind his back? Yeah…you should probably pay attention.
True.
And even when he tried to pick up a warp astrophysicist, and fucked it up, he learned, and adopted a new strategy. Namely, sometimes, shit don’t work out, so go the holodeck.
users instance checks out
I can’t take anything serious from someone who unironically put NK flags and Juche in the username.
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That’s a whiplash inducing username
Tom Morello? Yeah that’s a weird one.
Yeah tankies are a hard thing to understand. Such a level of stupidity required to become one.
pbs was awesome i loved carmen sandiego every day after school (also late 80s and early 90s nickelodeon because mr wizard’s world was amazing)
BUT
my favorite show was on wcvb in boston called a likely story:
the first episode is here: https://collection.oldfilm.org/Detail/occurrences/56856
PBS along with CBC here in Canada was a cornerstone of my childhood.
Matt Baume did a great job talking about the last PBS was trying to be canceled.
It really has become a perennial thing, but with the inmates running all three houses of the asylum this time it’s a particularly dangerous round.
Exactly. They have wanted to kill public media since the Reagan administration.
And we will never get it back if they do.
The dominant reason Republicans want to kill PBS and NPR is greed.
They absolutely hate the idea of parting with one single cent.
It’s that simple. Psychotic, irrational, and odious greed.
The minor issue of influence on children is trivial, but is a concern to them.
If it was greed, they wouldn’t be so incredibly happy to waste money on shit that supports their ideology. The cruelty is the point, not greed
And the point of cruelty is to extract protection money, every time.
Or to “teach a lesson” to everyone else… Greed and cruelty go hand in hand.
As someone with addict parents, PBS quite literally raised me. Like it was one of the only things I could watch for free that wasn’t daytime talk shows, had it not been for PBS I’d have been raised by Jerry Springer and Maury, and I imagine that some kids were.
Looking around the country, I’d say we don’t have to imagine. All too many were raised by Jerry Springer and Maury.
whys that guy got the NK flag in his username?? 🤨
Same reason username is “republic” of Juche probably.
