Time To Save NPR and PBS (again)

MoveOn.org Civic Action: Save NPR and PBS (again):

Everyone expected House Republicans to give up efforts to kill NPR and PBS after a massive public outcry stopped them last year. But they've just voted to eliminate funding for NPR and PBS—unbelievably, starting with programs like 'Sesame Street.'

Public broadcasting would lose nearly a quarter of its federal funding this year. Even worse, all funding would be eliminated in two years--threatening one of the last remaining sources of watchdog journalism.

Sign the petition telling Congress to save NPR and PBS again this year:

http://civic.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/

Last year, millions of us took action to save NPR and PBS, and Congress listened. We can do it again if enough of us sign the petition in time.

This would be the most severe cut in the history of public broadcasting. The Boston Globe reports the cuts 'could force the elimination of some popular PBS and NPR programs.' NPR's president expects rural public radio stations may be forced to shut down.

The House and Senate are deciding if public broadcasting will survive, and they need to hear from viewers like you. Sign the petition at:

http://civic.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/

Thanks!


And before you go jumping up and down about liberal bias, buddies, consider this -- YOUR CongressCritter and mine have a hard-on for NPR/PBS because they screwed up about 40 years ago and allowed the Corporation For Public Broadcasting to purchase programming from outside sources. Sources like the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) -- the ones who produce Sesame Street. CTW makes a lot of money on the syndication and product spin-offs of Sesame Street and it's characters and it pisses them off that they can't get their fingers into that pie.

Now, I don't live and die by either All Things Considered or The MacNeil-Lehrer Report the way some of my liberal acquaintances do, but I appreciate the overall intelligence of the reporting and the fact they aren't afraid to allow the expression of opinions the news producers don't particularly favor. Try finding a genuine contrary opinion at Fox News or CNN...