Why does public broadcasting need government funding?

Public broadcasting is not allowed to use advertising, although they can accept grants and acknowledge them. The hope is that this frees them from being tied to corporations and such. They can't get by without government funding.

Do you know what "public" means in this sense?

PBS is like Air America which went out of business a few years ago: democrat propaganda gets tiresome. PBS wouldn't last a year without the government dole for the same reason, liberal bia. And liberal bias pervades our media:

Polls on how Americans saw the mainstream media (TV and print) election coverage in 2008:

-Rasmussen poll: 69% for Obama, 6% for McCain

-Pew Research poll: 67% for Obama, 11% for McCain

-Sacred Heart University poll: 68% for Obama, 9% for McCain

-Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll: 67% for Obama, 11% for McCain

University of Connecticut’s Department of Public Policy survey of journalists, nationwide, during the 2008 election: 52% supported Obama versus 19% for McCain.

9/2009 Sacred Heart University Polling Institute: 69.9% agreed the national news media are intent on promoting the Obama presidency while 26.5% disagreed.

9/23/10 Pew Research poll: 43% of those who perceive bias say it is liberal; 23% say they see conservative bias.

9/29/10 Gallup poll: Distrust of the media Edges Up to Record High

Perceptions of liberal bias still far outnumber perceptions of conservative bias: 48% say the media are too liberal; 15% say they are too conservative.

9/22/11 Gallup poll: 60% perceive bias, with 47% saying the media are too liberal and 13% saying they are too conservative.

8/15/12 Rasmussen Poll: 59% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Obama has received the best treatment from the media so far; 18% think his Republican challenger has been treated better.

8/25/12 New York Times: Arthur Brisbane wrote:

"Across the paper’s many departments, though, so many share a kind of political and cultural progressivism — for lack of a better term — that this worldview virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times."

“As a result, developments like the Occupy movement and gay marriage seem almost to erupt in The Times, overloved and undermanaged, more like causes than news subjects.”

Who the New York Times endorsed for president, since 1960:

1960 Kennedy

1964 Johnson

1968 Humphrey

1972 McGovern

1976 Carter

1980 Carter

1984 Mondale

1988 Dukakis

1992 Clinton

1996 Clinton

2000 Gore

2004 Kerry

2008 Obama

Democrats – all of them.

9/21/12 http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gallup-only-8-amer...

Gallup: Only 8% of Americans Have 'Great Deal' of Trust in News Media--a New Low

The pro-democrat media has ten times more viewers than pro-Republican Fox News:

5/25/11 huffingtonpost.com: NBC Nightly News averaged 9.469 million viewers, ABC's World News 8.380 million; CBS Evening News 6.204 million; among cable networks, Fox News 2.556 million. And those figures don’t include the democrat shills MSNBC and CNN.

But democrats won't be happy until the entire media is controlled by the democrat party -- all of it:

-11/18/10 huffingtonpost.com: Senator Jay Rockefeller said: “There’s a little bug inside of me which wants the FCC to say to Fox and to MSNBC, ‘Out. Off. End. Good-bye” (knowing that Fox is at the top cable news channel and MSNBC is at the bottom).

-3/22/11, The Blaze: “They [the Tea Partiers] don’t deserve the freedoms that are in the Constitution, but we’ll give it to them anyway.” Democrat Senator Lautenberg.

-1/7/11 CBS News: President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans.

-In April 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the FCC did not have the legal authority to regulate the Internet. Despite this ruling, in December Obama’s FCC voted 3-2, along party lines, to begin the Net Neutrality regulation process anyway.

-5/1/12 The Guardian: A Washington-based ethics watchdog is calling on federal regulators to revoke News Corporation's 27 Fox broadcast licences in the wake of the highly critical report on phone hacking from the UK parliament.

-7/13/12 The Washington Times: The Obama administration has given the Department of Homeland Security powers to prioritize government communications over privately owned telephone and Internet systems in emergencies.

An executive order signed June 6 “gives DHS the authority to seize control of telecommunications facilities, including telephone, cellular and wireless networks, in order to prioritize government communications over private ones in an emergency,” said Amie Stephanovich, a lawyer with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). “The previous orders did not give DHS those authorities over private and commercial networks,” Ms. Stepanovich (a lawyer with the EPIC) said. “That’s a new authority.”