Twisted-Liberal: Change.org is "acting" against Palin, for NPR

[Milagros]

The following is an email sent by change.org

Full ViewSarah Palin vs. NPR From: Change.org Action Alert Add to Contacts To: XXX@XXX

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Don't let Sarah Palin kill public broadcasting

Dear xxx

Since National Public Radio fired Juan Williams last week for controversial remarks about Muslims, Fox News pundits have waged war on public broadcasting. They've called for defunding it completely, something conservatives have wanted for decades.

Led by Sarah Palin, a chorus of commentators including Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich, and Karl Rove are trying to paint public broadcasting as the "mouth of socialism" in a ploy to simultaneously attack NPR and fire up their base a week before Americans head to the polls.

In a corporate media landscape where "news" is about little more than partisanship and infotainment, we desperately need a reliable public broadcasting system to provide the essential information for a functioning democracy. Fox News has already poisoned much of our public discourse; we cannot let it and Sarah Palin kill public broadcasting.

Tell Congress: Don't cave to Sarah Palin. Stand up for NPR and public broadcasting.

Palin and others like her are using the controversy over Juan Williams to push for a longstanding goal: the "immediate suspension of every taxpayer dollar" going to public media, as stated explicitly by Bill O'Reilly on his Fox News show.

Heeding O'Reilly's call, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is reportedly introducing a bill that would zero out funding for ALL public broadcasting, including NPR, PBS, Pacifica and more.

Defunding could not only destroy NPR as we know it, but also deal a significant blow to the entire public interest media sector. We can't let Sarah Palin and the right wing bully Congress into selling out such an important part of our media landscape.

Tell Congress to stand up for public media in the face of right-wing attacks.

Thank you for taking action,

The Change.org Team

[Milagros]

Neither was I, until I was forwarded that email.

[Honorary Serb]

....If it’s only one or two percent of thier budget as they claim, then they won’t miss it....

That’s true!

BUT the bulk of their income comes from individual contributions!!!!

“Ordinary” Americans don’t deserve to be hectored by New World Order propaganda when they’re looking for in-depth news. And when a growing number of people who give to Public Broadcasting realize that that’s what they’re getting from PBS/NPR, all but the most diehard globalists and socialists may stop contributing!

That’s what they’re REALLY worried about!!!!