What do you think about the closing and end of CPB and thereby PBS?

@MayorOfCrushtown I agree - it's for all viewpoints. Love him or hate him, Trump seems to bringing everyone to the table, or at least waking them up!

@MayorOfCrushtown One side ? The side that includes different kinds of people ? The other side doesn’t want to see people different from themselves or learn about them. That’s why they’re banning history books.

@fun4us2b Including who he wants to kick out of this country. (hint: Some are U.S. citizens now, too.)

@MayorOfCrushtown are you really that blind or so brainwashed that you don't really know the various roles public broadcasting plays in the lives of the US citizen? Don't take it from me, do your own research and find out. What on the either public radio or television do you believe represents too much of a swing to whatever you think it has? Put that up in front of us and let us discuss the issues you set,!

@bijouxbroussard That's another topic...terrible human cost and from a practical standpoint we're literally throwing out productive workers who've no replacements! Reform should have been the priority - and it just never get's done....but I still think media outlets, especially those funded with public money should be a place where real productive discourse should at least be attempted. See my comment also to Portlander

@bijouxbroussard if they are gonna take money from taxpayers of different viewpoints, then all those differing viewpoints should be represented.

@MayorOfCrushtown I totally agree - we must keep talking.

@fun4us2b But we can’t pretend that there are two equal sides now. That’s not true anymore. One side no longer supports the rule of law, and is following the lead of a convicted criminal. And he wants to upend the Constitution and wants to be able to take away the citizenship of people that he personally doesn’t like. He fires people on that same basis, and replaces them with less qualified people who he can control.

That is where we are. Public television was where different kinds of people could see themselves represented. Many, for the very first time. Sesame Street in 1968 was one of the few shows where I regularly saw other black kids. And yeah, they were criticized for that in the South.

@fun4us2b the way the statement was worded, suggests that PBS was somehow expressing a viewpoint the writer disagrees with and that PBS expressed only that viewpoint. Without using such broad terminology show us what you base that belief on! Take any period of time and lost the viewpoint that the stations are expressing that are one sided and disrespectful for any other. Stop saying only that it is one sided, prove it!

@bijouxbroussard I agree - of course abuse of power is unacceptable in this country, especially by the POTUS...that said, it's not fair for anyone to feel disenfranchised - even if we don't agree with them...and I bet we/they agree on a lot of things in varying degrees, but don't really have a good way to meet in the middle. Once again, the process should be on reform. Can't blame it all on Trump - it's been boiling for years...

@bijouxbroussard there are not two equal sides of this situation. There is one dude claiming that there was only bias at PBS and no proof of that. This is civil war era language now, not discussion. If fun4us2b thinks this has been boiling over fir years, who has been causing it to fester? In 1970 I heard people in the military refusing to let their children watch Sesame Street because, these were his words, it makes kids love the African Americans, but he used a vile term. He was raised in the South, managed to get out by enlisting, but carried all of his southern bias with him!

@fun4us2b What we can blame on Trump is the executive orders he’s issued and the hateful rhetoric. What we can’t blame on him, are the people who support and agree with it. Because that does confirm that the hatred was already there. It was still there, actually. It had never left.

@samueltyler2 OK - well so I don't think in my entire life I've heard a word of conservative praise on NPR. Here's something interesting:

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/06/10/the-political-gap-in-americans-news-sources/

@samueltyler2 That’s what I mean. I remember white Southerners complaining about it because the cast was integrated. There were racists right here in California who had a problem with it—the same folks mad when we moved to the suburbs.

@bijouxbroussard I agree - but we really don't know how many people agree or disagree in their hearts and minds. That's why we need to keep talking...

@bijouxbroussard the confederates aka white Christian supremacists, never admitted their blame for the civil war, never took responsibility for their actions, fought every effort to improve the lives of the enslaved people and other minorities. They never had as vocal a supporter as Trump! He has done more harm to society and the country in 6 months than any president did on 4 years.

@fun4us2b We can only know them by their actions. Slightly less so by their speech.

@bijouxbroussard Always true.

@MayorOfCrushtown Well, I admit I’m less concerned about the KKK having an equal voice on children’s shows. Even if they do pay taxes.

@samueltyler2 The fringes are the exceptions, and have the biggest mouths. Most people are not on the fringes and need a voice to bring things in order. If not talking, what's the alternative? I'm seeking solutions - and hyperbole and rhetoric gets us nowhere...here's a book I was thinking of reading

https://www.amazon.com/How-South-Won-Civil-War/dp/0190900903

@fun4us2b tens years ago what you are alluding to was probably already too late. The plans for total the over if he US government were set in place by the what was called right at the time, during the Clinton administration. They managed to steer the judiciary into their direction, i might have once called them conservatives, but they have shown that they have no desire to conserve anything. The supreme court, the Pinnacle of the judiciary show regularly how it is not conservative, it is radical. The use of gerrymandering has successfully turned a Hamilton/Madison compromise into a bludgeoning took. Look around, we are arguably either at the precipice or already over the cliff moving towards a totalitarian state.

@samueltyler2 Thank you. That’s the kind of thing I mean. "Fine people on both sides". That’s not necessarily the situation. It wasn’t the situation during the Holocaust, nor during slavery and Jim Crow. One side was clearly in the wrong. And there’s nothing that can be said to justify their positions.

@bijouxbroussard i need no thank you, i am just being honest.

@samueltyler2 And the difference is, I don’t think Germany and Austria were trying to justify or glamorize what they did—after they lost WWII. They accepted that they lost and nobody was allowed to keep flying the swastika with a "Erbe, nicht Hass" disclaimer on it. No Nazi versions of "Gone With The Wind".