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>How is this a good thing?
>Public television was my lifeline as a child raised by a single parent household.
Literal boomer here - public tv *was* a good thing when I was in grade school in the late 60s and early 70s. There was no Internet or cable tv and public tv hosted educational programming and nature documentaries that would have had difficulty gaining sufficient advertiser support.
This content is now widely available; first on cable and then via youtube, streaming services, etc.
There is now less need for a public-funded domestic broadcasting service.