Public Broadcasting Funding Petition

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GOP Takes Aim at PBS Funding (Boston Globe, June 8)

Statements of Public Broadcasters on House Subcommittee's Vote To Cut Federal Funding for Public Broadcasting by 23 Percent (NPR.org pressroom, June 7)

CPR Responds to House Appropriations Subcommittee's Proposed Funding Levels for Public Broadcasting (Corporation for Public Broadcasting pressroom, June 7)

Public Broadcasting Under Assault (Freepress.net)

Bush Budget Pumps Propaganda, Slashes PBS (MediaCitizen, February 7)

From MoveOn's email today:

Over the last couple of days, over 300,000 people (including 80,000 who are totally new to MoveOn) have signed on to our petition to save NPR and PBS. That brings the total number of signers to over 1,400,000—making this not only our largest petition ever, but one of the largest petitions anyone's done.

But the next vote in Congress will be as soon as tomorrow. To stop Congress' budget cuts, we need to go even bigger: we're aiming for 1.5 million of us to sign on by tomorrow.

From MoveOn's June 8 email:

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.

Petition at MoveOn.org.

Comments

[cordwainer.livejournal.com]

Have you seen this awesom clip from Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers) speaking before Congress when Nixon was trying to slash and burn PBS?

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/05/27.html#a8470

Check it out.

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful! Thanks so much for the link. Hell, I got goose bumps.