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Posted on 02/06/2008 6:12:51 PM PST by Drango
It’s a familiar dance: for eight straight years, the Bush administration has proposed deep cuts in federal funds for public broadcasting, and seven times so far, Congress has restored them. But the magnitude of the proposed cuts put forth this week — Patricia Harrison, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, called them “draconian” — still sent public broadcasters scrambling.
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I don’t believe that Dems would cut the PBS boondoggle.
Does public broadcasting serve any real purpose anymore, if it ever did? Considering that there are hundreds of channels on cable TV, and the diversity of opinions expressed on the internet and talk radio, and mass media in general, why do we need public broadcasting?
What? The administration is proposing increasing the budget by only 200% as opposed to 400%?
Without PBS, there would be no one to express the liberal viewpoint.
If they didn’t cut it the first 7 years, they certainly won’t now. In fact, McCain might get together a gang of sixteen to double the budget. We need a lot more of “All Things Considered.”
And seven times so far, soon to be eight, "the Bush administration" has rolled over and played dead, signed the bill and congratulated themselves. Since they seem so anxious to fund PBS/NPR couldn't they just be honest and admit it?
Purpose? Good thought, wonder if there ever was an official purpose...anybody know the origins?
Why continue to subsidize something that obviously the public doesn’t want? PBS at this stage is almost unwatchable.
Nothing but endless begathons and repeats. It’s apparent only function is to make morons like Bill Moyers rich.
PBS/NBR is so essential to the national wellbeing that it is better to borrow their funding money from the Chinese than to reduce their vital service to the country.
In other news, Democrats complained about Bush’s budget deficit.
You're damned right! ...except for CNN, ABC, CBS, HN, NPR, TURNER, NBC, NYTimes, LATimes.....usw..
Why, there’s not a month goes by that I don’t tune in PBS. Maybe two months...
Public broadcasting— a waste of 4 good megahertz of the FM broadcast spectrum.
About the only thing I ever really watch on PBS is Lawrence Welk reruns and they could easily be carried on a commercial syndicator somewhere.
They couldn’t be draconian enough unless Bush called for a complete elimination of all federal subsidies to the Bill Moyers network. Talk about tax-payer abuse, PBS and NPR are an outrage forcing all American tax-payers to fund a strictly Left wing Democrat Network...truly our Constitution at work...NOT!!!!
Recent poll showed PBS as lowest on a list of media outlets ranked by how unbiased the public thought their reporting was, with only 3% of respondents thinking they were balanced - the public is way ahead of the politicians on this one.......
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