re: #1 Destro

Stung? Far too strong a term. When I saw the Wired article I saw a better chance to respond than in your static Page. Blaming Reaganism for events that transpired before his term is wrong. PBS was and is already private as Obdicut tried to explain.

Your premise fails to explain how we still have lots of great educational/science programming ever since in TV both gov and commercial. Like NASA TV (gov), Through The Wormhole, Universe, Nature. I could name many more. All but NASA are private commercial channels.

I have a different view as to how we got to such crappy programming on TLC and the rest. The audience as it is and bad business decisions. They ruined the brands.

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I don’t expect the Redditors to respond so well to this Page as they did to yours, my point undermines the rather breathless election year accusations this is all the fault of Reaganism.