[Nifty3929]

>>The U.S. is almost literally off the chart for how little we allocate towards our public media.

So? This is no justification for spending any particular amount of money on public media.

We also rank near the bottom on spending for Bigfoot observational studies and head-regrowth technology.

Perhaps the burden should be on folks to justify why we would want politicians to spend any money at all on public media.

I love Sesame St and Mr Rogers as much as anybody - I grew up on that stuff. It was great. But certainly folks can see how this could gradually move into more politicized topics where it's better for the government to stay entirely out of it. And frankly, any form of "news" is on the wrong side of that line. Of course, it's theoretically possible to provide entirely factual news - but I would in no way trust any government (or entities funded thereby) to deliver it. Far to risky.

At this point it's probably best to zero out all the funding, and then come back later and see if there is a genuine need for some form of public broadcasting.

[explodes]

News can be non-political. Also throwing out your bigfoot analogies didn't really add any meaningful response to GP.