Why PBS remains the best streaming service despite government defunding
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Alex Cranz
Summary
The article argues that PBS is the best streaming service of the year, despite (or perhaps because of) the U.S. government's defunding of non-commercial TV and film through the shuttering of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and defunding of NPR and PBS. The author reflects on how PBS's streaming app offers high-quality, ad-free content that stands in contrast to the corporatization of U.S. media, and laments the moral devastation of losing public broadcasting.
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The A.V. ClubWhy PBS remains the best streaming service despite government defundingavclub.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledLast year the United States government took a sledgehammer to non-commercial TV and film through the shuttering of the Corporation For Public Broadcasting and the defunding of NPR and PBS.
The move was a morally devastating one. It felt like another clear sign of the complete and total corporatization of U.S. media.
But it also reminded me that PBS, and especially the PBS streaming app, rules.
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