Comment by softwaredoug 5 months ago This is a better outcome than Trump minions taking over CPB 6 comments softwaredoug Reply tptacek 5 months ago What would they have been able to do? CPB mostly just funnels money to stations. They don't produce content. burkaman 5 months 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 5 months ago OK, but now they're funding zero shows. 1 reply → the_gastropod 5 months ago Put conditions on said funneled money? softwaredoug 5 months 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 5 months ago What would they have been able to do? CPB mostly just funnels money to stations. They don't produce content. burkaman 5 months 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 5 months ago OK, but now they're funding zero shows. 1 reply → the_gastropod 5 months ago Put conditions on said funneled money? softwaredoug 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago OK, but now they're funding zero shows. 1 reply →
the_gastropod 5 months ago Put conditions on said funneled money? softwaredoug 5 months 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 5 months 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