'For an alternative perspective, turn the channel -- listen to and support your local public broadcasting stations. Watch your Public Broadcasting station for the news. Listen to National Public Radio and Air America Radio and read newspapers and magazines like Rainbow Law's Un-Censored E-Zine.'
Who's with me on a movement to de-fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as well as the National Public Radio? Cutoff the government support. Let them exist on donations alone. I'd give them 2, maybe 3 weeks.
Don't worry, Sesame Street will knock them dead on the commercial airwaves.
It is illegal to fund PBS with government money.
They can't exist on donations alone. They are 501c3 charities which means that their political tongue has been cut.
We need to pull ALL government funding including their illegal tax dodge. Let them get commercial sponsorship from Tar'get (a French sounding name if I ever heard one...).
Sign me up for the movement. Government's role is not to subsidize broadcast ventures that can't make it in the real world.
I would be happy to join you, but my efforts in that area have all been in vain so far. My letters and calls to my congressman and Senators' offices regarding the far-left wingnuts who run PBS seem to fall on deaf ears.
I was angered and very disappointed to see that the Bush administration has included funding for PBS in every one of it's budget submissions. If PBS funding can't be stopped with a supposedly conservative president in office and a GOP controlled Congress in session, what hope is there for ever getting it stopped?