[muir_redwoods]

I am willing to stipulate that CPB, both radio and TV are completely unbiased and do a great job. Fine. We don't need them. As Krauthammer said, "if you're so good, you don't need public money"

They can remain so long as they can sell their product. It's the rule that made every other going concern that survives, successful.

[Mr. Silverback]

Yeah, we’re 14 trillion dollars in debt. If we need to cut anything, it’s subsidies to radio and TV stations.

[Mr. Silverback]

BTW, a couple of years ago my local NPR station was running ads during a fundraising drive telling people that they shouldn’t assume that the government would take care of funding, because the percentage of their budget received from the CPB was rather small. But now that government funding is on the chopping block, every NPR station in the country is trying to mobilize tote-bag types to lobby Congress for those dollars.