i think this poster thinks “public television” means “available for viewing by the public” rather than “available for use by the public”
we have become a nation of consumers. not of makers, maintainers, or even owners. just consumers. the public broadcast system is in many places the only network where you can see a documentary made by your neighbor. but people who think like this, like pbs and voa are the same, would never think to make a documentary, or to learn more about their local community. these people really buy into the “there is no two americas, there is just america” propaganda. the reality is that there are 13 american nations based on cultural identity, and within those, another 3 based on access to services thanks to class based identity, meaning the 2 americas line of thinking introduced by jimmy carter could get most people closer to understanding the empire we live in, but there’s really 39+ americas.
cutting funding to pbs means that there will be no exploration anymore of Arkansas’ identity. they will now be subsumed into a national identity that does not care about Arkansas. no one will be able to speak truths about what it means to be from the farthest reaches of greater Appalachia to people living in new york city.
these people think they’ve told the coastal elites to shove it, but they’ve silenced only themselves, and have chosen to only consume content made by and for those very coastal elite. they have willfully chosen to enter into their own modern dark age. and they celebrate it, gleefully, because they haven’t the education to understand what it is they’ve done
They haven’t just silenced themselves but us coastal elites are suckers for donating money to underserved services - they’re cutting off an income source
for the record. i think this author misses the mark in some places and that further analysis requires more understanding of minority identities and indigenous erasure. but the core premise is sound and brings something to the table we should consider more
Like the others, PBS is a network. Individual stations are its affiliates, and some of the larger stations contribute programming to the network such as WGBH.
Without PBS, it will continue to run local programming and that sourced from other distributors.
What is Americas “public tv” without pbs?
i think this poster thinks “public television” means “available for viewing by the public” rather than “available for use by the public”
we have become a nation of consumers. not of makers, maintainers, or even owners. just consumers. the public broadcast system is in many places the only network where you can see a documentary made by your neighbor. but people who think like this, like pbs and voa are the same, would never think to make a documentary, or to learn more about their local community. these people really buy into the “there is no two americas, there is just america” propaganda. the reality is that there are 13 american nations based on cultural identity, and within those, another 3 based on access to services thanks to class based identity, meaning the 2 americas line of thinking introduced by jimmy carter could get most people closer to understanding the empire we live in, but there’s really 39+ americas.
cutting funding to pbs means that there will be no exploration anymore of Arkansas’ identity. they will now be subsumed into a national identity that does not care about Arkansas. no one will be able to speak truths about what it means to be from the farthest reaches of greater Appalachia to people living in new york city.
these people think they’ve told the coastal elites to shove it, but they’ve silenced only themselves, and have chosen to only consume content made by and for those very coastal elite. they have willfully chosen to enter into their own modern dark age. and they celebrate it, gleefully, because they haven’t the education to understand what it is they’ve done
They haven’t just silenced themselves but us coastal elites are suckers for donating money to underserved services - they’re cutting off an income source
I’m curious, is there a book where I can read about this breakdown of national identities?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nations
for the record. i think this author misses the mark in some places and that further analysis requires more understanding of minority identities and indigenous erasure. but the core premise is sound and brings something to the table we should consider more
I’m guessing it’s gonna be something out of the Prager propaganda machine.
Like the others, PBS is a network. Individual stations are its affiliates, and some of the larger stations contribute programming to the network such as WGBH.
Without PBS, it will continue to run local programming and that sourced from other distributors.