[MamaLucci]

Ken Burns' film The Civil War was partially funded by the NEA...

If you can't compete in the free market, you have no business being a filmmaker.
Just like Bill Moyers shouldn't have a tv program. His PBS gig would never survive
without government funding.

[WOSG]

I agree.

While Ken Burns is good, so are the things on History channel or discovery.

As for Bill Moyers, that shows the CORRUPTION in PBS. He has made millions on his insider deals with PBS, sits and pontificates on issues that his favorite foundation (Schumann Foundation) showers him with funds to study and make shows about. He's reselling the same cr*p pablum to PBS three different ways, when they are a "non-profit".

It bothers me greatly that my taxpayer contributions fund his unwatchable dreck.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

If you can't compete in the free market, you have no business being a filmmaker. Just like Bill Moyers shouldn't have a tv program. His PBS gig would never survive without government funding.

AND, the FedGov has no right to be involved in force-feeding a political agenda to the populace via the mass media. If the people won't "purchase the product" in the market place, thats all. The simple fact is that "Public TV/Radio" and the "NEA" are just more bamboozlements of the populace by the Leftists in the FedGov to appropriate public funds to propagandize their otherwise unmarketable agenda.