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Public broadcasting chief decries proposed Trump budget cuts
The Hill ^ | February 12, 2018 | Rebecca Savransky

Posted on 02/13/2018 8:06:26 AM PST by billorites

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To: billorites

*sob*


41 posted on 02/13/2018 9:05:56 AM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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Raise money the old fashioned way: by showing more British Sci-Fi and Comedy.


42 posted on 02/13/2018 9:06:04 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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43 posted on 02/13/2018 9:07:11 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: billorites

NOT one thin dime for these left wing jerks.

“Public” broadcasting was suppose to include all of us... not just ‘the left’.

Ask Patricia Harrison if she would support tax payer support of FOXNews and Rush Limbaugh. If she says, ‘no’... then cut the funding to ZERO. If I had my way I would make PBS and NPR pay back the taxpayers for half of what they’ve received over the years...


44 posted on 02/13/2018 9:08:22 AM PST by GOPJ (Conservative men who date liberal women deserve the misery they're going to get...)
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In a statement released Monday, Patricia Harrison said that the "elimination of funding to CPB would at first devastate, and then ultimately destroy public media's ability to provide early childhood content, life-saving emergency alerts, and public affairs programs."

If this action gets rid of Morning Sedition and All Things Distorted, I'll take the trade.

45 posted on 02/13/2018 9:08:40 AM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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Public broadcasting is infrastructure that should be included in the federal assets such as the two D.C. area airports, the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and G.W. Parkway Trump wants to sell. Let the media market decide on the programming and commercial support. Big Bird wearing a Geico ballcap wouldn’t upset me.


46 posted on 02/13/2018 9:12:21 AM PST by VietVet876
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I was in public TV as a technical person that helped getting things on the air and barely lived above poverty level.


47 posted on 02/13/2018 9:17:26 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: billorites

Thanksgiving?


48 posted on 02/13/2018 9:18:52 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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With all the fixings.


49 posted on 02/13/2018 9:19:53 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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There is NO Constitutional provision allowing for taxpayer funds to be spent on Public Broadcasting.


50 posted on 02/13/2018 9:21:54 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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What I dislike the most about NPR is its virtue signaling audience members. “I was watching NPR yesterday...” “Did you see that on NPR?”


51 posted on 02/13/2018 9:23:59 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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I watch PBS, but have never listened to NPR. My family enjoys the mini-series as do many people. I like the educational/sewing show(s). If they could keep away from the political propaganda, fake news, and white-guilt shows (Finding Your Roots) they would be good. As of now they are 1/2 brainwashing.


52 posted on 02/13/2018 9:33:42 AM PST by madison10 (Pray for President Trump.)
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Oh there will be much weeping and wailing over the cuts in spending. But there are other ways to fund PBS, and many of the other expenditures are not needed now, and many were never needed to begin with. Full speed ahead. That which Congress won’t do, end them by EO.


53 posted on 02/13/2018 9:40:49 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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In the early 70s. DC’s Public Radio at American Univ. (88.5) had a little, half hour of bluegrass on Sunday at Midnight. Marketing research showed that that one show represented a tremendous amount of the donations and so the bluegrass show was moved to prime time (3pm) and extended to 3 hours. Even more money came in.
The complaints were long and high-pitched. But the libs shows generated NO money. The lib audiences were small and they refused to donate. Once Public Radio started getting big money from the government, they moved the bluegrass show and others over to the internet and freed up the radio airwaves for politically biased stuff. They even played Diane Rehms TWICE a day.

I say let them sink or swim on the free market.


54 posted on 02/13/2018 9:41:27 AM PST by ArtDodger
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Tax monies comprise a small percentage of CPB budget. If it can’t get by without that, it needs to fold.

While it is saturated with leftist propaganda, the unconstitutionality of funding it would remain the same if it were totally unbiased or hard right. Doesn’t matter. Not...the...government’s...business.


55 posted on 02/13/2018 9:45:26 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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Yes just waiting for the liberals to claim that Trump wants to kill off big bird.


56 posted on 02/13/2018 9:46:16 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Remind me again, just how much PBS gets from merchandising just Sesame Street?

Talk about welfare for billionaires.


57 posted on 02/13/2018 10:33:13 AM PST by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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Stop giving them taxpayers’ money and end the prohibition on CPB and its affiliates receiving money from memorabilia sales.


58 posted on 02/13/2018 10:49:15 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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