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Corporatism does not care about humanity.
With Warner Bros. deciding not to renew its distribution deal with Sesame Workshop, it seems Big Bird’s days are numbered. Here, writer Ira Wells explains how Sesame Street’s fate is symptomatic of a larger issue: the deprioritization of the public.
#SesameStreet #WarnerBros #ChildrensProgramming #PublicTelevision #Corporatism #Capitalism
https://thewalrus.ca/death-of-big-bird/
Coming on many #PublicTelevision stations: Deconstructing #TheBeatles
"New England Public Media, a public radio and television station based in Springfield, laid off 13% of its employees on Wednesday. It's the station’s second round of layoffs since 2023, when it cut a fifth of its staff"
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/02/12/new-england-public-media-lays-offs-springfield
#Trump’s #FCC chair investigates #NPR and #PBS, urges Congress to defund them
#BrendanCarr described as "Trump's #CensorshipCzar" as he launches media probes.
by Jon Brodkin – Jan 30, 2025
"The FCC's Democratic commissioners, #AnnaGomez and #GeoffreyStarks, issued statements denouncing the investigation. 'This appears to be yet another Administration effort to weaponize the power of the FCC. The FCC has no business intimidating and silencing broadcast media,' Gomez said.
"Starks said that '#PublicTelevision and #RadioStations play a significant role in our media ecosystem. Any attempt to intimidate these local media outlets is a threat to the free flow of information and the marketplace of ideas. The announcement of this investigation gives me serious concern.'"
Read more:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/trumps-fcc-chair-investigates-npr-and-pbs-urges-congress-to-defund-them/
#USPol #SilencingCritics #Fascism #Tyranny #Censorship
I love the CBC! So many great radio, television and news programs!
I think Bits and Bytes episodes are on YouTube here:
[Short Film] Harvesting the Future
"#Agriculture can thrive in the desert. The #TohonoOodham people have used #AkChin farming, a form of #DryFarming, to grow crops for thousands of years. In this short documentary by #WenonaBenally and #SalBaldenegro from Tucson, #Arizona, cultural experts demonstrate these traditional practices and implementations for future community planning."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXyYr24tRyk&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=3
#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #WaterIsLife #IndigenousHistory #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #ClimateChange #ChangingClimate #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA #ClimateChange #HarvestingTheFuture #FoodSecurity
[Short film]: #Megadroughts and #IndigenousVoices
"The Southwestern United States is experiencing a megadrought, but this isn’t the first time people have survived one in the region. By highlighting ideas and practices from #Navajo tradition, this story by Native Outdoors of Colorado Plateau re-centers our relationship to water."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4rNcEnPk9Q&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=7
#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #Dineh #Diné #WaterIsLife #IndigenousHistory #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #ClimateChange #ChangingClimate #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA #ClimateChange
[Short film]: Standing the Heat
"In a journey of reconnection, #NavajoNation filmmaker Steven Tallas explores the #hogan - a small, unassuming traditional structure found across the Navajo Nation. Remaining cool in the summers and warm in the winters, this short film revisits the hogan amid a warming American Southwest."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11pBhG-9OyY&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=5
#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #StandingTheHeat #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #ClimateChange #ChangingClimate #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA #TraditionalDesign #ExtremeHeat #BuildingForClimateChange #Diné #Dineh #ClimateChange
[Short film] Tides of Tradition
"Communities like the #Unangax̂ rely on traditional #foodways instead of customary, expensive grocery suppliers. This film by Kanesia McGlashan-Price of #Unalaska, #Alaska, follows the journey of a local subsistence hunter and shares the realities of food access in the changing Arctic and the values that inform their harvest."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN4dee0q378&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=4
#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #TidesOfTradition #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #California #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #ClimateChange #ChangingClimate #ArcticMelt #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA #FoodAccess #TraditionalHunting
[Short Film]: Keepers of the #Coastline – #California’s #Indigenous #MarineStewards
"In 2023, the Tolowa Dee-ni’ people alongside partnering tribes asserted sovereignty over the 700 square miles of their ancestral fisheries. Now in 2024, in this film by Jeremy Charles of Smith River, California, we see how marine science and resource management can be guided by community and culture."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqga3nTzmjE&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=6
#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #TolowaDeeni’ #KeepersOfTheCoastline #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #California #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #LandBack #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA
[Short Film]: #SandsOfTime: #CoastalErosion in #SouthernAlaska
"This short documentary by Anna Hoover of #BristolBay, #Alaska, presents the realities of coastal erosion by witnessing the experience of Bristol Bay community members. Interviews, local archives, and ancestral knowledge put the circumstances in stark relief, detailing the communities’ adjustments to the retreating coastline."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nhQZrBwQTI&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=6
#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA
[Thread] #NOVA Releases Series of Short Films Produced by #IndigenousFilmmakers
by Barbara Ayotte
November 25, 2024
"Honoring Native American Heritage Month, GBH, Vision Maker Media, and NOVA have released a collection of six short documentaries, Legacy of the Land, covering climate change in Native American communities. The first of its kind, the collection includes stories each produced by an Indigenous filmmaker making the series as dynamic and distinct as Native American communities themselves. From Alaska to Arizona, audiences witness the knowledge, tradition, and innovation of people living on the front lines of our changing climate. This series is a companion to NOVA’s film, Sea Change: The Gulf of Maine, which was released in July.
"'This series shines a well-deserved spotlight on Native American climate solutions that are based on Indigenous knowledge and science. The stories provide a rare insight from the perspective of Indigenous filmmakers who have given us privileged access to their communities,' said Laurie Donnelly, GBH Executive Producer."
) This is the #DisintegrationChecklist. #TheChecklist of what we can expect to lose in the next four years. That makes it a tool for gauging the progress of loss. 43 items. A grim countdown score in the form of a simple number: how many are still left? That is the #DisintegrationScore. 43... for now.
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from https://absurdistwords.bsky.social:
#ThingsThatWillDisappearInTheNextFourYears (A non-exhaustive list)
#AbortionRights
#Contraception
#NoFaultDivorce
#ViolenceAgainstWomenAct (#VAWA)
#CivilRightsAct
#VotingRightsAct
#FirstAmendment Protections
#BirthrightCitizenship
#NaturalizationProtection
#EnvironmentalProtection
#ConsumerProtection
#FraudProtection
#PoliceBrutality #ConsentDecrees
#HabeasCorpus
Three #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
#GenderAffirmingCare
#HormoneReplacement
#InVitroFertilization
#SameSexMarriage
#InterracialMarriage
#AntiDiscrimination Laws
#WorkerSafety Laws
#CollectiveBargaining
#AffordableCareAct (#ACA)
#PrisonReform
#AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct (#ADA)
#RightToPrivacy
#SeparationOfChurchAndState
#ForeignAid Programs
#PovertyPrograms
#PublicRadio & #PublicTelevision
#SexualFreedom
#AntiSegregation Laws
#VaccineMandates
#PublicSchool System
#PublicLibrary System
#StareDecisis
#ChildLabor Laws
#Antitrust Laws
#LegalCannabis
#Pornography
#SexWorker Protections
#InternetFreedom
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Keeping track of this #DisintegrationChecklist, & the
#DisintegrationScore, is not a silly thing. I am not trying to #gamify the #apocalypse. It is a concrete measure, and if it is widely shared, it will make apparent even to the distracted the accelerating loss. A tool for those capable of caring.
https://bsky.app/profile/absurdistwords.bsky.social/post/3lb5wwj23v22u
This morning's #workout #music is a live set of #SpiritualJazz #FreeJazz #AfroFunk from The Pyramids (with Idris Ackamoor) brought to you by #KQED - #publicTelevision doing what it does.
Get well soon, Rick Steves!
Photo via Current
#RickSteves #PublicTelevision #Travel
We recently decided to subscribe to PBS Passport so we could stream PBS content on TV, and it has been an utter treat! For $5/mo, we get loads of educational content (like NOVA), the news, documentaries (Ken Burns!), and an endless supply of British and foreign historical dramas. Even some concerts on there
You subscribe via becoming a member of your local PBS station, then link it to your PBS account via PBS Passport.