Lawrence Welk reruns on PBS affiliates nearing the end?

[CTListener]

Huh? There's no "strong push" and there's no "bias against Christianity." Funding has been passed every year without any debate.

There have been numerous documentaries on the history of Christianity on PBS.

To some, "bias against Christianity" means even hinting that any other religion is valid, let alone equivalent. A documentary treating the history of Buddhism or Judaism or Islam with the same respect given to Christianity would certainly spark such complaints.

 

[TheBigA]

A documentary treating the history of Buddhism or Judaism or Islam with the same respect given to Christianity would certainly spark such complaints.

Everybody has an opinion. Regardless the funding has been passed every year.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

Ummm, there is NO state religion.

don't tell that to David Barton

 

[nomadcowatbk]

I'm sure they don't. That would be the quickest way to end public funding once and for all, because religion in all forms makes up a significant part of the lives of the public. Only a small minority of people are irreligious. Elected officials know that and would consider it political suicide to allow public funding for an operation that prohibited such an important part of people's lives. There's already a strong push to eliminate public funding for PBS due to a perception of bias against Christianity.

what if they wanted to air services from a Mosque?

 

[CTListener]

don't tell that to David Barton

No need to worry about that. Evangelicals of his extreme ilk only amuse me. I can't talk to them at all without laughing.

 

[kevtronics]

There's already a strong push to eliminate public funding for PBS due to a perception of bias against Christianity.

That reminds me of the false rumors that were being spread back in the '90s that the FCC under Bill Clinton was going to outlaw all religious broadcasting, supposedly at the behest of Madalyn Murray O'Hair: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/petition-to-ban-religious-broadcasting/

These days most Republicans who oppose funding public broadcasting base it on the claim that it is a waste of money and that private benefactors could make up for any loss of government funding. Like Mitt Romney, who said in the 2012 presidential debate, "I'm gonna stop the subsidy to PBS. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. … But I'm not gonna keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it."

 

[dhett]

Huh? There's no "strong push" and there's no "bias against Christianity." Funding has been passed every year without any debate.

There have been numerous documentaries on the history of Christianity on PBS.

There has always been a push to defund PBS, or more accurately, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/af...rks-chief-insists-network-provides-high-value
https://www.petition2congress.com/ctas/defund-pbs
https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/congressman-pushes-to-defund-pbs-npr
https://www.nationalmemo.com/new-public-tv-star-pat-buchanan-crusaded-to-defund-pbs/?cn-reloaded=1
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/defund-pbs

Congresscritters have consistently resisted the calls to defund PBS, but it doesn't mean that there isn't constant pressure to do away with PBS funding.

I never accused PBS of bias against Christianity. I said that there is a perception of bias, and that is true.

 

[gr8oldies]

That rumor had been going around since the 1970s.

That reminds me of the false rumors that were being spread back in the '90s that the FCC under Bill Clinton was going to outlaw all religious broadcasting, supposedly at the behest of Madalyn Murray O'Hair: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/petition-to-ban-religious-broadcasting/

These days most Republicans who oppose funding public broadcasting base it on the claim that it is a waste of money and that private benefactors could make up for any loss of government funding. Like Mitt Romney, who said in the 2012 presidential debate, "I'm gonna stop the subsidy to PBS. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. … But I'm not gonna keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it."