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GM

graham wrote:

> On 2018-12-04 10:57 a.m., wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 8:40:45 AM UTC-6, Jill McQuown wrote:
> >>
> >> I saw this on PBS on 'America's Test Kitchen' a couple of days ago.
> >> They tasted shrimp burgers all up and down the North and South Carolina
> >> coast and settled on the shrimp burgers from the Shrimp Shack on Saint
> >> Helena Island (where I live).
> >>
> >> Jill
> >>
> > Right now, for the month of December, my local PBS station is going through
> > it's tired and worn out membership drive. Most all their regular programming
> > goes out the window while they do the membership push. For about 30 days
> > I don't even turn on that channel as what they air is garbage, at least
> > it is to me.
> >
>
> >
> Same here! All that Irish clog dancing, screaming Irish sopranos and
> syrupy tenors, and pensioned-off rock bands from the 60s.
> Why the hell they think we want to watch that stuff again and again
> beats me!

Because the demographic for public broadcasting (at leaat in the US) is 60++ ... thus the vapid Brit murder mysteries, cookery shows, armchair travelogues, etc....

US public broadcasting should not get *one* penny of public funding, public broadcasting would thus be empowered to improve itself...or die in the process.

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Best
Greg