What the hell do you call PBS?
An out-dated network whose original purpose really expired with the advent of cable television and subsequent additional non-cable networks. The choices we have for television viewing especially were almost unthinkable when I was a child.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created to be a private nonprofit by Congress with the 1967 Public Broadcasting Act, so it
is legal. But in its own words it is also "the steward of the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting and the largest single source of funding for public radio, television, and related online and mobile services." Realistically, its purpose of alternative programming expired legitimately long enough ago. Whatever you do or don't think of what's on television these days, it's very tough to deny that there
are vast choices the like of which weren't really foreseen when television was born in the late 1930s, and that it isn't really any of the government's damn business who broadcasts what or who watches what, which by the way it would be wise to remind the FCC now and then, too.
But one suspects that until or unless the CPB and PBS are expired, President Tweety just might lean upon their existence (maybe even on the original Public Broadcasting Act, by way of one or another new contortion of it) to justify launching any kind of state-run media of his own, optics and taxpayers still be damned.
