Good!

The agency that runs PBS and NPR is closing down.

GOOD.

PBS and NPR lost their public purpose 50 years ago. PBS switched from education to entertainment. NPR switched from unbiased to pure DNC.

Government is supposed to serve ALL the people, not just the members of one party or one elite class. Education was a public purpose. Entertainment was private because everyone’s taste is different.

In reality both networks have been almost entirely commercial for many years, getting the vast majority of their money from advertisers and subscribers. Now they can be HONESTLY commercial. They will continue to carry advertisements for luxury products, and they will continue to get contributions from elite people and elite NGOs. That’s fine!

Business is pay for value. A company serves the people who like its product and gets money from the people who like its product. You don’t like it? Don’t buy it. You’re not FORCED to pay for someone else’s enjoyment.

The Post Office is a dramatic counterexample. It gets a tiny amount of money from the government, and in return it serves ALL the people, not only the shippers who pay most of its income. It’s an excellent bargain for taxpayers. Elon was aiming to get rid of the PO, but the effort appears to have stopped after Trump predictably kicked out Elon for upstaging him. Upstaging a psychopath is a capital crime.

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Later update: NPR seems to understand the issue correctly! Public funding requires serving ALL the public, which is impossible for an elitist company. They also understand that the bigger stations have been commercial for a long time, and only small stations in rural areas need subsidies. They’re starting to support those rural stations with their own subsidies. Mutual Benefit Association!