“I grew up in a small rural community, and I distinctly remember back in ’73 how shocked all the grownups were to turn on PBS and learn about World War II for the first time.”
~ David Burge
Filmmaker Ken Burns has so little respect for rural areas, that he thinks not funding the propaganda network PBS means rural areas will become news deserts and they won’t even know what is going on at the school board or city council meetings.
They won’t have any real education like that which PBS offers, suggests Burns.
I seriously doubt people in rural areas give a whit about PBS. Forget the rural areas, no one anywhere ever needed to depend on NPR or PBS for anything. Just arrogant elitists like him.
The arrogance and condescension of the man is astounding.
Rural communities have the internet.
This soft bigotry of assuming they all live in huts in the woods with rabbit ears as their only access to media is stupid. https://t.co/cEIoCNSuK8
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 10, 2025
PBS spews nothing but Propaganda and bulls**t. Very few shows on there worth watching.
Dude occupies a delusional leftist bubble.
Not another single radio/television show has our taxes supporting it. Not one.
I always assumed PBS was short for “Pathetic Bull Sh&t.”
It fit.
Another ‘Bubble Boy’ rich enough to create his own reality.
I’ve listened to enough npr to realize they blame everything that’s wrong in the world on, President Trump, climate change and racism.
I lived in the boonies grow3ing up yet we still had cable by 1980.