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Comment by kevin_thibedeau | Hacker News Reader

> I suggest contributing to your local station

Most PBS stations run infomercials promoting quack medicine. So long as they keep doing that I'll never give them a penny.

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This is an over generalization (and will differ for each member station). E.g. here is the KCTS 9 schedule for the full day tomorrow -- https://www.kcts9.org/schedule/kcts9/20210803

You could make a case for the 1AM slot being quackery and there are definitely more entries like that in the greater schedule but its a very small amount of the content (and ever decreasing...).

Disclaimer: I work for KCTS 9.

Ironically, if enough people gave them a penny they wouldn’t have to run those quack informercials.

Likely they'd just expand, like any other organization. PBS is somewhat better, but NPR is a cesspool of corporate sponsorship and journalism that's marginally better than some private, for-profit outlets but still generally low quality and scarcely informative.

> Most PBS stations run infomercials promoting quack medicine.

Can you give details? I'm wondering if this was something that only a local affiliate did and not something that was PBS sanctioned.

I don't think I've ever seen that.

Link to donate to OPB, with like KQED is both NPR and PBS affiliate: https://give.opb.org/opb/ Someone I know was a PM there and they were often struggling financially.

I thought they relied on yearly fundraisers. This is how OPB gets income

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