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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦onMastodon1d ago
BBC4 is broadcasting a #Prince concert i’ve never seen before and now am angry thinking of what fascists took from us when they set to destroy the NEA & PBS back in the Bush/Reagan era.
you would think whiteist dingbats would want a bigger and better public TV in this country; but nOooooOoooo. they went and made PBS a poor subsidiary of BBC and then paid quislings in the UK to destroy their own public media.
#tv #BBC #PBS #music
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Analysis Summary
This post conflates real historical funding cuts to public media with a fabricated conspiracy theory that PBS became a BBC subsidiary and that the US engineered destruction of UK public broadcasting. NEA and PBS faced serious budget pressure during the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations, but neither was 'destroyed' — both continue operating today. The claim about PBS becoming a BBC subsidiary and a US-backed plot to destroy British public media has no factual basis and appears to be invented context for anger about actual defunding campaigns from decades ago.
Claims Analysis (3)
“fascists took from us when they set to destroy the NEA & PBS back in the Bush/Reagan era”
NEA and PBS faced funding cuts during Reagan/Bush administrations but were not 'destroyed.' Both institutions still operate with significant funding.
“they went and made PBS a poor subsidiary of BBC and then paid quislings in the UK to destroy their own public media”
No evidence that PBS became a 'subsidiary of BBC' or that the US 'paid quislings' to destroy UK public media. This conflates separate media systems and invents a conspiracy without factual basis.
“BBC4 is broadcasting a Prince concert I've never seen before”
Post date is April 17, 2026. Specific broadcast claim cannot be independently verified from search results, which contain unrelated content about presidential centers.
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