26%...This is a good start...However, when it reaches the Senate, Ted Stevens will add the money back in.
cutting operating funds to pay for equipment needs will seriously compromise our mission to deliver
quality educational programming and services DNC propaganda to the American public.
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Typical Rats-- calling it a cut when they just did not get the increase they wanted.
To be fair and balanced, there is at least one NPR station which is virtually free of the relentless leftist political bias that plagues the rest of them. That station is WWFM (
http://www.wwfm.org/) which is 100% classical music, with only occasional 5 minute news breaks (which can be ignored, for all practical purposes). I wouldn't doubt most of the staffers are leftists, but they keep it to themselves, which is fine with me.
There was a time when I could possibly see some justification for PBS. Back in the day when there were only three stations on the air: ABC, NBC, CBS.
Back then, PBS could truly offer the viewer an array of programming not found on regular stations.
But now, we have the History Channel (more than one of them), Discovery (again, several of them), AnimalPlanet, National Geographic Channel, A&E, The Learning Channel, Educational children's programs, all sorts of woodworking/handyman programs, hell, even the BBC so the Blackadder fans aren't even cheated.
The free market has eliminated the need for a government program. It's a conservative's dream. Only problem is that the government program won't give it up.