Posted on 01/19/2017 12:06:07 PM PST by C19fan
Hours before his inauguration tomorrow, Donald Trump appears ready to approve budget-cutting plans that would outsource public radio and television financing while killing altogether federal support of the arts and humanities.
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you’re right, and I don’t even believe Trump supports anything resembling these cuts. This sounds like it’s coming out of Mick Mulvaney, alone.
“We call them underwriters.”
When I worked in public broadcasting, the term commercial was verboten.
I’ve been an artist for almost 50 years
and have never taken government funding.
Government sponsored art is bad art
because socialist art isn’t art.
Socialist art is either crony art or PROPAGANDA.
Shut them down.
Oy, MAGA...Make Art Great Again!
VOA is a waste!
VOA nowadays gives the impression to the world that the whole of our country sits around 24/7 listening to rock music.
I hope the budget for the VOA (US Information Service) gets cut.
The crowd who cheers the layoff of those in the coal and steel industries are suddenly worried about their financial future??
Interesting.
They all are democrats dissing Trump every chance. They need to go.
There are enough rich leftists willing to finance artists whose preferred mediums are urine and feces that they don’t need my tax dollars.
“Trump wants to kill Art!”
Art today can be a booger with a hair in it!
Women artists and minority humanitarians hardest hit.
There’s plenty of great art and quality programming on PBS, folks.
Am I going to be the sole person on this thread that thinks defunding PBS in the midst of this win isn’t such a great idea? PBS funding is but a drop in the fiscal bucket compared with other budget lines. Trump wants to bring the country together. How is this going to help? Why give the arts community yet more ammunition to oppose Trump, bringing things to a lower point even than they are now when it really costs very little to be magnanimous, extend an olive branch. Let them have their political dreck and moonbattery. We can still value and enjoy PBS’s excellent art, music, drama, science and historical documentaries offered at a quality you don’t normally find on other cable channels.
Sorry, but rushing to defund PBS in the face of this wonderful victory, while the arts community is in such an uproar, seems a bit mean spirited and triumphal. I hope it doesn’t happen.
Overdue.
This is like a dream come true if this happens.
“More than likely means they start selling ad time.”
As long as they have to pay their own way.
“I want to design my own channel set and not pay for 100+ channels of garbage I will never watch.”
If we could only turn it off for a couple of weeks, the cable companies would have to cave. They can’t survive without revenue.
Good thinking Longfellow. Innovation occurs when people are forced to make it on their own.
Let Hollywood fund NPR on it own, but they have to change the station name to NBR, National Barney Radio. Tap up Streisand and Streep. Let’s test their generosity.
LOL! Car Talk was always more about entertainment.
Although I know nothing about cars, so I can’t say if they gave good advice. However, I’d trust a FReeper more than anyone on PBS.
“Dewey Cheatum and Howe”
Happy New Year, FRiend.:)
LOL!!
LOL!
Seriously? I thought he was a down-home folksy kind of guy.
Just like Michael Moore....A man of the people, purportedly, but is very wealthy.
Liberals are so hypocritical!
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