The CPB did more for rural Americans than nearly anything i can think of.
And they voted HEAVILY for this.
I had to deal with right wingers all throughout Kansas whining that NPR did nothing for them and was coastal elites while their local stations were doing Harvest Public Media specifically to deal with news on the agriculture locally while Faux News couldn’t give two shits about Kansas.
I’m not happy about it, but there’s going to be a lot of “We didn’t vote for this” which I’ll happily tell them yes, yes they did.
There’s gonna be an empty band in the airwaves where PBS used to be.
IPTV stream of Ms Rachel, interspersed with leftist messages every 20-30mins, image macro saying how easy it is to set up a transmitter for your community, post it on social media everywhere…
No there won’t. They’ll auction those bandd off to the highest qualified bidder. Qualified meaning president-approved propaganda outlets only. So as you say, nothing of value would be lost if someone were to transmit over them.
Man they are STEALING our AIRWAVES
WE PAID FOR THIS. WE DID, NOT TRUMP. The CPB did more for rural Americans than nearly anything i can think of.
And the GOP murdered it for votes. Sacrificed Sesame Street on the altar.
I motion that in the absence of the Congressionally-created CPB, all airwaves are public, fuck the FCC. Let’s go Pirate Radio.
And they voted HEAVILY for this.
I had to deal with right wingers all throughout Kansas whining that NPR did nothing for them and was coastal elites while their local stations were doing Harvest Public Media specifically to deal with news on the agriculture locally while Faux News couldn’t give two shits about Kansas.
I’m not happy about it, but there’s going to be a lot of “We didn’t vote for this” which I’ll happily tell them yes, yes they did.
There’s gonna be an empty band in the airwaves where PBS used to be.
IPTV stream of Ms Rachel, interspersed with leftist messages every 20-30mins, image macro saying how easy it is to set up a transmitter for your community, post it on social media everywhere…
No there won’t. They’ll auction those bandd off to the highest qualified bidder. Qualified meaning president-approved propaganda outlets only. So as you say, nothing of value would be lost if someone were to transmit over them.
Except it’s incredibly easy to notice and stop people from doing that.
I know exactly 0 people who are still watching over-the-air TV.
Lots of people in rural areas still do. Places where cable companies don’t offer service because it’s not profitable.
What does “false consensus” mean?