PBS Kids and PBS is at risk of shutting down.

> Last week, the Senate passed a $9 billion rescissions package, including a full $1.1 billion cut to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds both PBS and NPR.

> The funding at risk here had already been set aside, fully approved through a bipartisan deal, for the next two years. The cost to taxpayers? It adds up to just $1.60 per taxpayer, per year. That’s the price of a cup of coffee—for something that brings learning, stability, and emotional development into millions of homes.

While PBS Kids doesn't get all of it's funding from the Federal government. This is still a lot of money. And this probably will end up closing down some rural stations and PBS not being able to make new programs and have to be dependent on old reruns.

What makes me most sad about PBS being defunded is that a lot of PBS shows taught kids about good morality and not to be a brat and materialistic. You really can't tell kids "don't be materialistic, don't beg your parents for toys" when the show depends on ad revenue. There is also a lot of educational programming in PBS Kids. I actually did learn a few new things about the environment because of Eleanor Wonders Why.

>>149572643 (OP)
>I actually did learn a few new things about the environment because of Eleanor Wonders Why.
Unless you have kids of your own, there is no logical reason for you to be watching a new PBS Kids show in the 2020s and be an active user on 4chan.

>>149572643 (OP)
I'm not too upset.

Eh. Shit happens.

>>149572643 (OP)
Who cares, who even watches baby shows, their entire purpose is to teach babies, sure you can feel nostalgic for them, but I wouldn’t really want to revisit them as an adult like I would with something like SpongeBob. Any adult who tunes into that trash is a little "durrdurr" in the head and browses Deviantart 90% of the day.

>>149572643 (OP)
>Some rural stations
Nobody who wants this funded believes ruralites deserve to live.
>cost to taxpayers? It adds up to just $1.60 per taxpayer, per year.
Gachatard logic.

which Arthur character would you fuck?

Why can't they just watch reruns of Mr Rogers or Sesame Street
Don't need to spend money to make reruns

>>149572839
go jerk off to the nu-bob garbage, faggot

>>149573144
Because kids might get confused if their shows have characters with old fashioned hair cuts. I'm not joking this is an actual justification I've heard used

>>149573144
Sesame Workshop will be fine.
Hell, most parents prefer the classic seasons anyway.
>>149572839
See, a huge issue is that the tablet baby generation were watching the tablet shit instead. Ironically this is part of why they're so fucking braindead. The PBS shows were literally built around nurturing their developing attention spans as toddlers.
There was a study into this back in the day where a bunch of kindergarten kids were split into two groups. One shown Sesame Street and Caillou and Arthur, the other Spongebob. Afterwards they were given some basic addition and subtraction worksheets and the kids who watched the PBS stuff did significantly better.
Not to mention, that shit is designed to placate little kids and keep them nice and calm without putting them into an addiction-like trance like how Cocomelon does, so it's parents who are gonna suffer.

>>149573251
Its sad to see how much educational children’s programming hopped onto the Cocomelon bandwagon, instead of caring for childrens attention spans, they are actively fucking them over.

They’ve went from programming to teach preschoolers to programming to keep preschoolers quiet and glued to the tv.

>>149572643 (OP)
In Blue States PBS and NPR will be fine, they get more than enough in donations from people in cities.

Mama macaroni. Don't cancel me.