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Salon is proof that some well healed libs are always willing to bankroll a progaganda machine:

Today's Salon Stock Deathwatch (note the spike in the chart raising them from 4cents a share)

Rolling Stone Editor and Adobe Executive Put $800,000 Into Salon Web Site (Bad Money After Bad!)

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My understanding is that the amount of federal funds PBS and similar groups get is a fairly small percentage of their budget. To that extent, pulling the funding probably won't hurt them much and might give them the opportunity to feel all smug and self-righteous.

I have heard calls for defunding several times over the years and it never seems to go anywhere. I agree that we should oppose government funding to information sources on (eg PBS, NEA and public schools) on principle, but I am not holding my breath. Especially with the skyrocketing spending the Bush administration has been doing. I just don't think anyone in Washington has the courage to take a principled and unpopular stand on such matters.