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FUNDING CUTS FOR PUBLIC TV AND RADIO

by Open-Publishing - Friday 24 June 2005
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YOU ALL NEED TO WRITE TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN TO TELL THEM NOT TO CUT FUNDING FOR PUBLIC RADIO AND TV. THEY OFFER AN ALTERNATIVE VIEWPOINT TO OUR MASS MEDIA, OUR CLEAR CHANNELS WHO ONLY OFFE THE SAME PABLUM DAY AFTER DAY. BITS OF NEWS ABOUT KATIE HOLMES AND TOM CRUISE, RUN AWAY BRIDES AND MICHEAL JACKSON! WHO CARES ABOUT THEM?

WE NEED PUBLIC RADIO AND TV TO BRING US IN DEPTH NEWS, WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD, HOW OUR ENVIRONMENT IS BEING RAPED BY THE BUSH ADM AND WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING IN THE WAR.

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  • PBS is not really that good... They still have most of the White American viewpoint overlap with commercial broadcast.

    I hope the funding is completely eliminated to be honest with you. PBS is waste as anything else that can be said about the White American "culture".

  • RIGHT ON!!
    First PBS, then CSpan, and then will come the Internet. They willnot stop until they control all the "NEWS", we are fed! They can’t let us know what is REALLY going on so they fill people’s heads with missing girls in Aruba, Michael Jackson, Martha Stewart, etc.. They can’t have us talking about how the Repubs are raping the Country and ruining our standing in the World! After all that isn’t as important as Michael Jackson.
    When people ask me what I think about one of these absurd stories/miniseries, ie Michael Jackson, I letthem know that that isnot important to my life, such as issues of war, high gas prices, etc..are. I basically make them feel how foolish and trivial it is to obsess on these other stories they are being fed.
    Boycott the other Media but KEEP P.B.S. ALIVE!! If this goes it is the beginning of the end of our "
    so-called" Democracy!
    Please do as I have and phone and Email your eps and Senators and demand the funding forPBS not be cutand that Kenneth Tomlinson step down from the Chairmanship!

    • Remeber this information can get around alot of ways but it needs to have a network based on people. If the government is making everything top secret and they take away the internet how will they fund all their porn funding operations which us porn money from internet sites to do all kinds of things including run drug operations, convert military operations, and other things that people are not supposed to know about. Remeber you have comply with the system and that means you have accept that the funded sources are actually sources of information. If the government is going to fund and pay for corporation sponsored propaganda perhaps we should all side with the American Indians and sue the US government and corporations for what they did to the native people and lets all move to the reservation and slowly take bake all the illegally stolen land that killed thousands of Indians, enslaved millions of blacks to work the slave famrs, and exploited millions of european families into destitutions and poverty while the banking and merchant famliies live like Kings of this exploitation. I mean if we are going to consider reparations then every exploitaed working famliy in Amerian and the Military has a case against the corruption of our government. Maybe a giant class action lawsuit against all the vested titile and deads to the lands and the profits of all these current and prior generations of workers should be sought to pay of all the violence placed upon them to extract the profit and the lifestyle of luxury supported by wholesalve lies, muder, exploitations, lack of respect for indigious cultures and to place the profit of money above all things in the world. That is the ultimate crime that needs to be prosecuted, convicted and TERMINATED!

      It is more importtant that we create an agenda of unity and action than to wait and listen to the propganda matrix and what next fear they will program into our psyches. We need to discuss with eachother our plans, and needs and create a way to get that. PBS is just a place to listen to what they did to whom and for what reason and that is not a PLAN OF ACTION. It is a pleasant distraction from TAKING ACTION! Want to change you better act or like the large bolder in my backyard not much will happen no matter what truth or lies I play to it ON MY RADIO or TV. Wake up folks. You will need to ACT or you will continue to be exploited and killed in more and more actions to reduce you to the functional elements of abstraction in their profit and operations equations and THAT IS NO HUMAN life friend!!! Think about it! YOU NEED TO PLAN ACTION and that has to include taking POWER and USING it to EFFECT CHANGE otherwise PBS, or any other stattion will not save you. You either fight for yourself and create personal convictions you stand by or your orange jump suit is waiting for you in your cell - worker number S.13.4304

      Thank you and remember a good worker loves his work and loves his corporation and its loving ways. Please ready yourself for self extermination after your production quota has been filled. Your child is now the property of our profit center and will be trained to their best and profitable use. Remember your children help your corporation and their lives are now the property of what your parents submitted their will to by complying to their money system. That is all!

      peace out 7b

  • Actually, the House voted to reverse the cuts:

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/pbs.asp

    So no need to sign any petition.

  • PBS and NPR made sense when there were gaps in the broadcast map, meaning that people couldn’t have picked up TV or radio broadcasts any other way. In the age of satellite TV and radio, plus internet, I’m not sure it makes sense to continue to have state-run media. I’m sure that Big Bird and Car Talk can turn a profit.