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I donate to WKU and have at one time or another subscribed to PBS, I don't care much for country music, but listen to bluegrass, modern rock, frankly I can't understand most of the lyrics, to me they are just noise, same as classic opera. Some public broadcasts are very entertaining, like the specials on baseball, and the civil war. My children watched sesame street, and from that I became a "muppets" fan.How much tax money goes into the public radio and TV stations, I don't know, I also dont know how much funding goes into subsidising foreign farmers. But I know which one I would support[if I had a say so }. We subsidize ethanol production, which is a waste of money. It seems like some folks just don't other folks learning too much.Commercial broadcasters tell us only what their sponsers let them broadcast.

I really enjoy most all public broadcasting. The Prairie Home Companion and the variety of music on NPR is just not available even on satellite radio. PBS offers Kentucky Afield, music concerts and a wide variety of informative programing. I really like the shows highlighting KY history. Any subsidies to public broadcasting is money well spent.

I agree Modern Country music is 98% trash. So much of it is based on image it's sick. I cannot tell one singer from the next. They all look the same. They cannot even come close to the great country artisits of the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and early 90's. Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Sr., The Kendalls, Charlie Pride, Micky Gilly........and on and on.

The music video industry has all but ruined popular music. A performer is judged 99% on image and 1% on talent. Freddy Fender would not make it past the buzzers on American Idol.

I'm a fan of prarie companion also, "click and clack" is also listen to.The music on american roots issometimes awesome.On saturday evenings I'll scan the broadcasts on the PC and use the puter as a radio. I really mean it about not understanding the lyrics, it sounds like gibberous to both of us.

[QUOTE=kygorski;499788]I'm a fan of prarie companion also, "click and clack" is also listen to.The music on american roots issometimes awesome.On saturday evenings I'll scan the broadcasts on the PC and use the puter as a radio. I really mean it about not understanding the lyrics, it sounds like gibberous to both of us.[/QUOTE]

Modern Country music is missing more than a few things...steel guitar, fiddle, standup bass, banjo.

Allison Kraus would still be playing county fairs if NPR PBS had not given her exposure. I don't think the Bull 98.1 has yet to play one of her songs.

I've always liked NPR except for their news reporting. Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion is my favorite, a great show, performed live. (Years ago I dated this girl who would read to me from "Tales from Lake Wobegon" when we were driving. God, she was smart...and smokin hot.) The Tappet brothers stopped doing Car Talk live, but they are hilarious.

Country music has been ruined by the 'industry'. Politically correct, sanitized, and way too much emphasis on looks.

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Something we agree on. There are some good shows on PBS locally.














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Aside from our political views, there's probably a lot we agree on.

PBS has some very good shows. Documentaries about local musicians, craftsmen, artists, and civil war history among them.

I listen to NPR radio all day at work, they are the most strait up news station out there. and have some really good interviews of people from all over the world. and Romney said if he could take Obama's job, that he would cut NPR off from Government funding.

[QUOTE=waterdog101;499836]I listen to NPR radio all day at work, they are the most strait up news station out there. and have some really good interviews of people from all over the world. and Romney said if he could take Obama's job, that he would cut NPR off from Government funding.[/QUOTE]

Their news coverage is just this side of MSNBC, way too far to the left. The government shouldn't be sponsoring NPR or PBS, they lost any semblance of objectivity long ago. Let the people who want to tune in sponsor it.

Devils Horse, I listen to NPR every day and have no idea what you are talking about. When I flip past MSNBC, the liberal bias is OBVIOUS. It's not up for debate at all, but I have NEVER heard a story that sounded biased to me, and I listen for that. You must have better hearing than me, because I don't know what you are talking about.

Yes, there are some good shows on Public Broadcasting. I grew up watching Big Bird and Mr Rogers...now watch Kentucky Afield. I'd hate to see them off the air, but my opinions have changed lately...if it's my tax dollars keeping them afloat (or money that the US Government has to borrow from Communist China), I'd rather feed the homeless disabled hungry, help some kid and his mother stop having to live in their car, repair a bridge that's a piece of crap, or fix a sewer system that's 75 years old with that money.

If PBS can't operate without government funding, then they can find more donors or learn how to sell advertising like the rest of the television world has to do to keep the lights on.

I love how their statement the other day was that "Cutting Federal Funding for PBS would have devastating consequences for the children of America and have no impact on the deficit." I guess it's the educational programming from PBS that is causing our children to be such elite world-beaters when it comes to math, science, and intelligence. Oh, wait a minute....they aren't?

In the list of things that have to go in order to balance the budget...do you prioritize federal funding for Big Bird over improvements to schools, college scholarship programs, or work study programs?

It's a checkbook. Something that all of us have to sit down and balance every month...yet the government can't do it. Why? Because nobody is willing to give up anything. We don't have the money, but we want it all anyway. Just raise the debt ceiling and put it on the plastic baby.

And of course, cutting subsidy for PBS alone won't have a material impact on the deficit...but the collective action of being smarter with our spending will. That's just part of it. It's like a kid wanting a $5 toy at the grocery store and you tell them no. "But Dad, it's just $5...what's $5 matter on your $100 grocery bill?" It's the nickels and dimes that add up to the dollars that break you, if you don't stay within a budget.

PBS has some excellent shows. There is a "Civil War in Kentucky" series on KET that I really like, among others.

I guess you all have probably seen this on the news, but let me mention it here. PBS got $444 million from the govt. last year. That's <.001% of the federal budget. But it's about 40% of PBS's annual funding. They wouldn't go out of business without it, but it would sure hurt. And I think we're getting plenty of bang for our buck. I think we can find other areas to cut spending that will do more good for the budget without degrading something this valuable.