https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7gCSMukpqY

30 Jun 2025

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This is a YouTube video titled "Is It Time to Pull the Plug on PBS Funding?" containing a monologue or opinion piece recorded in mid-2025 discussing the relevance and funding of PBS in the modern media landscape, focusing on federal funding, programming diversity, and public priorities. The content features a single speaker expressing personal views rather than a multi-speaker conversation.

Look, I like PBS. I grew up on Mr. Rogers, and yes, I watched Curious George with my kid a hundred times. But let's be real. It's time to end federal funding for pbs. These days, every highly educated professional on a PBS show like Curious George is a woman or a minority. The only clueless character, a well meaning but bumbling white guy. And you know what? That's fine. I'm okay with that. I'm not one of these people constantly complaining, oh, too woke. Too woke. That's not my position here. It's a choice. It's not a crime to have choice. But choices have cost. PBS only gets 15% of its budget from federal taxpayers, and it's furloughing staff while asking for more money. During a time when Americans are struggling with inflation, housing, and health care, it just doesn't seem to be the highest priority. We're not living in 1967 anymore. Rural America has Wi Fi. They have YouTube, they have Netflix and 10,000 content options. We don't have a national shortage of video. We have a shortage of common sense.