PBS Rant

I rarely watch PBS these days. When I was a child, I watched PBS' excellent shows for children such as Sesame Street, The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, Reading Rainbow, and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. When I was a teen, I enjoyed watching NOVA, Scientific American Frontiers, and various cooking shows such as The Frugal Gourmet and Yan Can Cook. While in college, Bob Ross' soothing voice would melt away my stress. These days, I just tend to watch Frontline off of their website.

I'm generally annoyed by PBS' leftist bent, and the fact that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is funded by the federal government. When the question of federal funding comes up, PBS supporters love to harp on about how the majority of its funding comes from private and corporate donations, and that federal funding is minimal. Well then why accept federal money in the first place? I guess it's too hard to pass up "free" money. I refuse to contribute a single cent to PBS when I'm being forced to subsidize it, especially when Congress has not been given the power under the Constitution to fund such an organization. I am content to take advantage of PBS since I'm forced to pay for it anyways, while flipping the channel during their tedious fund raising drives, although sometimes I will watch them beg for money while letting out an evil conservative cackle. I wonder how much of the pledged money goes into hiring lobbyists to bilk more money from the feds.