Posted on 09/01/2009 8:45:20 AM PDT by raccoonradio
De-fund PBS and NPR
How could a “non-profit” tax exempt clearly-biased
institution continue, given its news head, Jim Lehrer
has told Obama to ‘crack heads’, and then failed
to report the assaults that followed the PBS directive?
Payback for the cheering and yayying on the set when Clinton and O election victories were announced.
one comment from the article:
>>I have mixed feelings about WGBH. Kind of like that feeling you’d get watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac. They have some of the best programing on TV but they promote such a far left agenda that I must hesitate when thinking of contributing money. Bill Moyers must go.
another
>>WGBH “begging” while having a huge, new, garish building is like the Queen of England taking a city bus. It doesn’t fit the image. SELL the building, fire the over priced management talent that alienated your loyal base, and get back to basics. It is simply bad management. The building was a public afront to their image of austerity and integrity. It’s too bad.
and
>>20 years ago I was a regular contributor to WGBH. Today, however, I don’t rely on the station for any programming. The cable channels, including History, Discovery, CNN, Biography, etc, and the Internet, provide far more information and entertainment than any single network or outlet. As a result, I no longer feel any need to support WGBH, other than by my taxes.
bookmark
Rot in h3ll PBS/NPR.
Dims the glow at WGBH?
The Obama recession has a definite silver lining.
Now end all taxpayer support!
Lets spend $85 million on a nice new building for our non-profit organization taking government funds!!! Thats the ticket.
And they sold their mailing list to the Dem party (read one of the comments)...
The famous opening and closing for WGBH, with harpsichord
music and William Pierce (IIRC) announcing. “We will always need your help.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMaZnEnFAyM
Have you ever seen the UN-like NPR headquarters in Washington, DC? Do you know about the outrageous salaries PBS pays its executives, and did you know Bill Moyers has “privatized” his program and profits from it, while continuing to enjoy taxpayer subsidies for its production? He has made millions of dollars. Ditto Sesame Street. In fact, the profits from Sesame Street products could support the entire network, if they hadn’t been privatized, too.
Iconic Marxist station, I actually did an interview in college back in the 90’s on that station. Little did I know it was a slam on college conservatives and the hate-whitey crowd of trust fund recipients.
The comments on the Globe article (and no have not seen the PBS bldg in DC) said WGBH bigwigs get huge salaries.
They should get the FCC to license them as commercial and sell
advertising and get their hands out of my wallet.
raccoonradio wrote: “And they sold their mailing list to the Dem party...”
..... My wife and I were long-time viewers of WGBH and that’s what ended our support. We had grumbled for a long time about the continual leftward tilt of the station politics, but the sale of their mailing list to the Democratic Party was the final straw. We still watch Masterpiece Theater/Mystery (which now appear to have been merged into one program), and the better imported UK TV productions, but our contributions have ceased.
Exactly...de-fund them all.
“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) must be reformed along democratic lines and funded on a substantial level,” Lloyd wrote in his book.
“Federal and regional broadcast operations and local stations should be funded at levels commensurate with or above those spending levels at which commercial operations are funded,” Lloyd wrote. “This funding should come from license fees charged to commercial broadcasters. Funding should not come from congressional appropriations. Sponsorship should be prohibited at all public broadcasters.”
He proposes charging commercial broadcaster 100 percent of their operating budgets to fund this scheme.
indeed; one of the comments to the Globe article reads:
>>GBH does some outstanding programming and I was always able to put up with their “left leaning” bias when it came to any political reporting. I finally pledged and made a donation around 1997 or so. When the first magazine arrived I noticed they had misprinted my name on the mailing label which I didn’t think worthy of any attention. Then around 2001 a campaign solicitation arrived at my home from Ted Kennedy with the same misprint in the mailing label. I called GBH and they said it must be some mistake by a lower level staffer. A few weeks later another arrived from Hilary Clinton’s campaign. I wrote a letter to Washington and never renewed my membership... and I’d like to...but if my donations are going to -any- politician’s campaign they won’t get any more help from me.
Back when I subscribed to dead-tree media, I used to put nonconsequential misprints in the information. That way, I could always tell who had bought whose mailing list.
I should sue them for permanently getting their mailing address stuck in my head when I was a kid...
Write ZOOM, Z double-O M
Box 350
Boston Mass
O-2-1-3-4
Since 1974 and I can’t get it out of my head....
AAAARRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
When my wife learned of GHB’s sale of their mailing list to the Democrats, she went into an absolutely thermo-nuclear rage. Shortly thereafter, she happened to pick up the phone one evening and found herself being solicited for a donation by NPR; she melted their switchboard with her response.
My wife is a sedate, loving, level-headed person 99.9 pct of the time, but when she gets really angry you do NOT want to be within 50 kilometers of her. I felt sorry for the person on the other end of the line.
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