Comment by softwaredoug 1 day ago This is a better outcome than Trump minions taking over CPB 6 comments softwaredoug Reply tptacek 1 day ago What would they have been able to do? CPB mostly just funnels money to stations. They don't produce content. burkaman 1 day ago They could have chosen which specific shows they would fund, they weren't required to give out no-strings-attached grants. They once hand-picked Tucker Carlson to host a new PBS show that they would fund. tptacek 1 day ago OK, but now they're funding zero shows. 1 reply → the_gastropod 1 day ago Put conditions on said funneled money? softwaredoug 1 day ago "If you want CPB money, you'll have to make/broadcast a Trump PSA" seems totally within the realm of possibility.Which might still happen if rural PBS stations now need to take sketchy sources of money
tptacek 1 day ago What would they have been able to do? CPB mostly just funnels money to stations. They don't produce content. burkaman 1 day ago They could have chosen which specific shows they would fund, they weren't required to give out no-strings-attached grants. They once hand-picked Tucker Carlson to host a new PBS show that they would fund. tptacek 1 day ago OK, but now they're funding zero shows. 1 reply → the_gastropod 1 day ago Put conditions on said funneled money? softwaredoug 1 day ago "If you want CPB money, you'll have to make/broadcast a Trump PSA" seems totally within the realm of possibility.Which might still happen if rural PBS stations now need to take sketchy sources of money
burkaman 1 day ago They could have chosen which specific shows they would fund, they weren't required to give out no-strings-attached grants. They once hand-picked Tucker Carlson to host a new PBS show that they would fund. tptacek 1 day ago OK, but now they're funding zero shows. 1 reply →
the_gastropod 1 day ago Put conditions on said funneled money? softwaredoug 1 day ago "If you want CPB money, you'll have to make/broadcast a Trump PSA" seems totally within the realm of possibility.Which might still happen if rural PBS stations now need to take sketchy sources of money
softwaredoug 1 day ago "If you want CPB money, you'll have to make/broadcast a Trump PSA" seems totally within the realm of possibility.Which might still happen if rural PBS stations now need to take sketchy sources of money
What would they have been able to do? CPB mostly just funnels money to stations. They don't produce content.
They could have chosen which specific shows they would fund, they weren't required to give out no-strings-attached grants. They once hand-picked Tucker Carlson to host a new PBS show that they would fund.
OK, but now they're funding zero shows.
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Put conditions on said funneled money?
"If you want CPB money, you'll have to make/broadcast a Trump PSA" seems totally within the realm of possibility.
Which might still happen if rural PBS stations now need to take sketchy sources of money