First in boys graduating non-readers from highschool.
And, now. First in the nation for:
No national PBS. We are now gonna have lovely home made local programming. How many goofy excercise and nature shows is acceptable?
Nothing. No Masterpiece, No Frontline. No news hour(I believe). No Secrets of the Dead. No kids programming.
On and on the shows I’ve watched since I was in diapers watching Mister Roger’s.
I’m sick to my stomach.
I sent a nasty email to her “Talk with Governor” thing online.
We need less educational television in Arkansa like we need more rednecks.
(I realize I can cast it from PBS passport to my bigger screen. I’m not sure most people can that, we’re also first in computer illiteracy in Arkansas)
I know her maiden name was Huckabee. I was just being rude
I bet home made local programming will include lots of well-made highbrow intellectual stuff. Since this isn’t the Pit I’ll stop right there. The OP might report herself and ask for a venue change so we all can respond more appropriately to this “decision”.
Of course Arkansas voters got a choice. And the policies being enacted are exactly what the voters wanted. It’s not like it was particularly a close result.
That article says the change saves them the two million dollars that the national PBS programs cost. But the local content they’re replacing it with will cost something, as will the content they’re still going to buy from American Public Television and the National Educational Television Association. I don’t think they’ll save all that much. And my guess is the national programming, like Masterpiece, is popular with Arkansas viewers.
I’ll take local PBS programming, at least the type I get, over the endless concerts (which you can purchase on DVD, BTW, if you want to see it again - get my drift?) that the stations periodically air.
One does wonder if they’ll take anything, as long as it’s Arkansas-produced and could be considered educational. Some stations might as well go back to public access.
Back in my active practice days, I had to make a delivery to a local nursing home on a Saturday evening, and every room that had the TV on was tuned to “Lawrence Welk.” In the late 1990s, that aired (and still does in my area) on PBS.
I also remember the Dumpster wondering why coal miners would need PBS. Um, hello, because they watch it too, even if it’s just “Sesame Street” with their kids?"
Something I never noticed before - in the link you posted, my first thought in seeing the outline of the state was, “Why is there a toilet in that image?” Now that I’ve seen it - I think it likely apt.
