TV Woodworking Shows--What hapened?

[John Siegel]

Yes that is the one. THe latest one to show/repeat here was the episode about felling a tree. John

[Joe Bleau]

[Joe Bleau]

So, the conservatives have AM radio (with the exception of the failing Air America--failing even with George Soros and his megabuck contributions) and the liberals have Corporation for Public Broadcasting paid for with your tax dollars + Hollywood and its mindless Jane Fonda types. Wonder who's getting the long end of that stick? Hmm. Let me see if I can figure it out.

Joe

[Mark & Juanita]

You wouldn't mind then, if this conservative asks you for some facts to back up your assertions. Also a few definitions should be in order; for example what the @#$% is a "propaganda payoff"? ... and "free money"? A little documentation regarding federal subsidies to network television stations would be in order as well.

Seems that, as someone pointed out earlier the $300+ million going to public television is not exactly chump change coming from the federal government. My guess is that number does not include money funneled through various colleges that support production of various programming for public television.

Well, most conservative talk radio seems to deal with more facts than the wild assertions you are making above. Although I can certainly see your point, given how incredibly successful the conservative candidates were this past election cycle, one would expect huge propaganda payments to be flowing into those other stations.

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[Mark & Juanita]

Did I indicate anywhere that I thought the Alaskan Bridge pork project was a good idea? I was merely pointing out that it is somewhat ludicrous to point out one person's pork as a means of justifying another person's pork.

OTOH, I've also gotta believe there's a bit more to the Alaskan bridge story (or it at least deserves equal consideration with the Kleagle Byrd's freeway).

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[Mark & Juanita]

... and that's different from regular TV, how? :-)

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[Brian Henderson]

Back before I utterly gave up on PBS, I swear it was 2 weeks a month. It just never ended.

[Brian Henderson]

No, what they need is to live within their means and get off the public dole entirely. But then they'd need to show things people actually wanted to see and be able to compete, wouldn't they?

[Brian Henderson]

It's something he made up. What do you expect from liberals?

The simple fact is that public television cannot compete in a free marketplace. If it was left to it's own devices and required to have advertising to support it, it would be off the air in 3 months. There simply aren't enough people watching it to make it a viable commercial entity. You know something? Maybe this relic of the 50s should go the way of the dinosaurs. If it cannot compete in the free market, it shouldn't exist at all.

Again, what do you expect from liberals? They're always long on emotion and short on facts.