3.8 million metric tons? Wow. But at least we know where one metric ton of it is every morning around 3 a.m.
If you’re looking to support NPR, the NPR+ Bundle is my best and most used streaming service. NPR+ gives me several of the podcasts I listen to ad free, including Consider This and Up First, which are daily. It is so nice when the host says, “we’ll be right back,” and then they are immediately back. By minutes per week, I probably listen to more NPR podcasts than any other source.
We also make a monthly donation to our local PBS station, which gets us access to lots of stuff streaming on PBS.
ETA: the point of all of that is, you can both support NPR and PBS, and still get something immediately useful out of the deal.
Is that a veiled FAFO reference? I’m not saying that you’re wrong, but that sliver of rurarl folks who avidly followed and benefited from the existence of CPB doesn’t strike me as being a large voting bloc for the America-hating fuckstick.
Back to my memory of CPB-related stuff: Fred Rogers testifying before Congress.
I’m pretty sure, more than just rural folks watch PBS.
Anyway there’s a lot of us out there in the boonies.
I don’t think that that was the point. The point was that NPR and PBS stations in rural areas are the ones that are likely to be disproportionately damaged by the loss of the CPB, and the funding it provides to individual stations.
Ahh. I’m glad to know that. Thx
My prediction is that NPR news won’t do anything differently than they do now – publish what can be supported as true and important. They have not had any gloves on that I can see, and I don’t expect them to suddenly turn into MSNBC. I hope they don’t damage their credibility by becoming less reliably accurate and objective.
I haven’t decided yet whether I will increase my contribution to my local NPR station, or to the national organization, or maybe even adopt some rural station. Or maybe all three.
As for my favorite stuff on NPR, I haven’t listened to any of the entertainment programs for a fair few years. Car Talk may be the one I miss the most, at least they never changed while they were on the air. I don’t listen to the news much any more either, but I do read NPR online. Somehow it seems slightly more bearable there.
PBS and NPR are not shutting down. They are, however, losing a formerly reliable source of funding, one that cost each American about $3 a year.
Support your local stations, if you can.
Yet some people apparently give a shit about the Epstein files! What priorities! 
Any word from American Public Media? I don’t see anything on their website about impact. I’m frequently catching Marketplace, BBC World Service, and On Point on the radio.
I tripled my monthly contribution to my local public radio station as soon as the clawback passed.
A while back, I was wondering about “What could the Democratic Party do to break into the media blackout it sees over so much of the US?” I was initially thinking they should sponsor a lot of local newspapers. But this presents a new opportunity. How many of these local stations could the DNC fund? Make two things clear: “This is brought to you by the DNC”, and “We don’t spin the news, it’s just the truth.”
The last bit is key. You don’t need an active bias to make this a net gain for the Democrats. Just telling the truth is already biased enough in their favor.
There are people in UK politics who would like to get rid of the BBC (not till they rip the headphones from my cold dead ears!!). Its charter is reviewed every ten years, and the TV licence fee is always in such people’s sights, likewise the lock the BBC has on televising major national occasions
There are always rows about how the management handles this or that new scandal, and it’s true that long-term the TV audience demographics are changing, and all the terrestrial broadcasters (commercial as well) are facing massive competition from Netflix and social media video channels.
I can well believe that our own RWNJs might want to replace the licence fee with voluntary subscription, cut back on high-cost flagship TV and local radio, and heaven knows what else.
Never was big into Sesame Street, was more of a Electric Company kid. I did like 321 Contact. Nova is is no longer a must watch, but still like it.
One must not forgot that PBS was my intro to Monty Python and Doctor Who (not to mention Red Dwarf)
On road trips I often have channel 122 (NPR) on SiriusXM. Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me is a favorite and I miss Ask Me Another.
Brian
Little surprised these has been no mention yet of Masterpiece Theater - with Alastair Cooke. So many great series. Plus, IIRC, that may have been the first place I saw televised bare breasts! The theme - Rondeau by Mouret, is one of my wife’s favorites to play in our ensemble.
Your bluegrass ensemble? Awesome!
Ha! No - my wife and I play in a VERY amateur string quartet in which I hack up the cello lines..
I did bring one Bouree from Handel’s Water Music for my string band to hack up. Almost sounds like a fiddle tune.
Darn, I was hoping for something like Pete Seeger’s banjo rendition of Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”
I was right in “Sesame Street”’s demographic when it debuted, and stopped watching it when I outgrew it. I do, however, have a younger brother and sister, and they watched it and so did my brother’s kids in the early 00s when they were in that age range. One thing he and his wife (Happy 30th anniversary yesterday to them, BTW!) agreed on before they had kids was that the house would be a Barney-free zone. Someone did give them a bag of stuffed animals that included Baby Bop, but they allowed it because it wasn’t Barney’s loathsome purple self. Somebody else asked, “What was their issue with ‘Barney’, besides the fact that it’s incredibly annoying to anyone over the age of 6?” and I replied, “You just answered your own question.”
My nieces loved the Teletubbies, and a British show called “Boohbah” that we didn’t get here.
And I liked “Electric Company” and “Zoom” in their times.
p.s. Loved “Red Green” as well. Duct Tape Forever!
I would call Phil Ochs’s folkie arrangement of Poe’s “The Bells” a standout.
That special also contained one of the all-time best defenses of public television:
