Poll: Do you want to save PBS or do you not care?

[DynaFlowHum]

Really don't care. Their programing is old and stale and I don't believe the government should own a TV station in the first place.

[Zaza]

Government funds are a very small part of PBS funding. Big Bird will survive without federal funds. Public Broadcasting survived long before the federal government.

[The Virginian]

I have always supported PBS and what it stands for. I support them with a regular membership. Republicans have always tried to kill the objective reporting along with the kids educational programs including Sesame Street and Big Bird. The Republicans will continue to fail. Less than 5% of its funding comes from the government.

[RitchWilliams]

PBS has definitely outlived its usefulness. With the 800 cable channels we have out there, the many community channels, there is something out there for every one and every need. There's no reason for a government sponsored channel.

[Uncle Pennybags]

I like PBS.

But at a time when we are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend, we need to make cuts in spending. And many cuts will be painful. We simply cannot afford to keep doing everything.

So yes, I support cutting funding to PBS and Big Bird.

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I have never needed PBS in my entire life. I may have had it on passively without really caring what was playing. So I will support my own needs, not yours or anybody else's.

People vote for their own needs, not the needs of others. I get told I need to vote a certain way because, say, you want me to. Do you vote a certain way because of what *I* want? Didn't think so.

Parking the kids in front of TV is a P-poor way to raise them. How about getting their fat little behinds out moving around again like back in the old days when we did not have so much obesity. And pulling a few more moms away from facebook and back to their kids.

[bobemac]

I could care less about "big bird" and PBS!!!

VOTE OBAMA OUT!!

[whoyeah]

Sesame Street was brought to you today by the letter P (for poverty)


She's got pink hair, she's terribly cute and she's hungry. In a bid to reflect the harsh realities of recession-era America, the makers of the nation's favourite children's TV show have introduced a new puppet. Her name is Lily and her chief character trait is that she lives on the breadline.


The so-called "hungry Muppet" was introduced to viewers on a special episode of the programme aimed at educating the public about the growing proportion of US families suffering from what sociologists term "food insecurity."

And Conservatives are quite upset...

Thanks to the polarised state of US politics, there are few public gestures that don't provoke at least some controversy, however. And Lily has been criticised by right-leaning commentators who believe that she represents an effort to brainwash the nation's youth about the perils of unchecked capitalism.

"Why is Lily a class, a group?" asked Eric Bolling, a commentator for Fox News. "Do we single out the black Muppet? Or the Hispanic Muppet? Why do we need to single out the hungry Muppet?"

The Blaze, a blog that is very popular with American conservatives, was more succinct about the programme's new star. "Uh-oh," it announced. "It's time to redistribute the Cookie Monster's cookies!"

Lily doesn't understand why Mr. Romney wants to take away her food.

[zuma]

Yes,..Absolutely....

It's a ..Lie.. that PBS is profitable enough.The Big Bird Programs are not profitable enough to support all of PBS,..Neither can the Public ..

Republicans have a Vendetta to undo any group that would put them in an unfavorable light...
They want the Program..... "Front-Line".... to disappear..

Front-line... often plays the Whistle-Blower.

PBS ..Cost the Public 350 million a year,..That's Pennies compared to other Cost...

Ask Romney about his Corporate Well-fare,..write-offs, and Loopholes.,..That's where the cost is..

[adeline]

DO you want your money going to support a tv and radio station? If I could choose between spending my money on wars that cannot be won, corporate bailouts, stimulus programs, and the like, or spending less than 1% on PBS, I would choose funding PBS. It amazes me how upset people have become to the idea of not funding a tv station, but say very little about losing over 2000 American lives in Afghanistan.