Recently the Trump Administration has announced it was ending the taxpayer- funded subsidization of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which in turn is the primary source of funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
This is a step in the right direction for two reasons.
First, the CPB (as well as PBS and the NPR) are politically biased, e.g. they lean towards the left.
Second, as previously mentioned, these companies are funded by tax dollars (as well as private contributions). Thus, they should be privatized, just like the following organizations: African Development Foundation, AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation), Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence
in Education Foundation, Broadcasting Board of Governors (International Broadcasting Bureau, a.k.a. Radio & TV Marti), Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, Inter-American Foundation, James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Morris K. Udall & Stewart L. Udall Foundation (Udall Foundation, Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy), National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Science Foundation, Northwest Power and Conservation Council, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Peace Corps, Smithsonian Institution, Social Security Administration, Stennis Center for Public Service Leadership, Tennessee Valley Authority, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States Postal Service (and its monopoly on mail delivery to be eliminated), United States Trade and Development Agency, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
It should be noted that some of these organizations should be abolished instead of being privatized, as was the case with the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the United States Agency for International Development.
Of course, some of the shows on PBS were okay. Such shows include the following: 3-2-1 Contact, the American Experience, Arthur, Doctor Who, GED Connection, Discovering Psychology, Globe Trekker, History Detectives, Inspector Morse, Ireland: County by County, Mr. Bean, Mystery!, Nature, Nova, Reading Rainbow, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Rick Steve’s Europe, Secrets of the Dead, Sesame Street, This Old House, the Western Tradition, and Wild America. In addition, Ken Burns’ documentaries have also been interesting.
In addition, the PBS affiliate Kentucky Education Television (KET) has also aired some interesting shows, such as the Appalachians, the Bell Witch Legend, Burgoo: the Stew of the South, and the Haunting Tradition. KET also airs mainstream movies on the weekends.
But the time has come for these organizations to be privatized. In fact, they should have been privatized decades ago.
