Posted on 10/28/2010 5:20:38 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian
Since National Public Radio fired Juan Williams last week for controversial remarks about Muslims, Fox News pundits have waged war on public broadcasting. They've called for defunding it completely, something conservatives have wanted for decades.
Led by Sarah Palin, a chorus of commentators including Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich, and Karl Rove are trying to paint public broadcasting as the "mouth of socialism" in a ploy to simultaneously attack NPR and fire up their base a week before Americans head to the polls.
In a corporate media landscape where "news" is about little more than partisanship and infotainment, we desperately need a reliable public broadcasting system to provide the essential information for a functioning democracy. Fox News has already poisoned much of our public discourse; we cannot let it and Sarah Palin kill public broadcasting.
Tell Congress: Don't cave to Sarah Palin. Stand up for NPR and public broadcasting.
Palin and others like her are using the controversy over Juan Williams to push for a longstanding goal: the "immediate suspension of every taxpayer dollar" going to public media, as stated explicitly by Bill O'Reilly on his Fox News show.
Heeding O'Reilly's call, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is reportedly introducing a bill that would zero out funding for ALL public broadcasting, including NPR, PBS, Pacifica and more.
Defunding could not only destroy NPR as we know it, but also deal a significant blow to the entire public interest media sector. We can't let Sarah Palin and the right wing bully Congress into selling out such an important part of our media landscape.
Tell Congress to stand up for public media in the face of right-wing attacks.
Thank you for taking action,
The Change.org Team
NPR is like an outhouse, it has long since outlived its usefulness.
If the libs like it, they can keep paying for it out of their own tote bags
DEFUND RADIO PRAVDA NOW!
Yep. That's the general idea. Driving their women and children before me, and hearing their lamentations is just a bonus.
/johnny
Oh please! Since when has NPR been this?
NPR and PBS are litmus tests for the new Republican Congress. If they can’t find a way to defund them over the next two years, they aren’t serious about spending reductions.
Don’t ‘defund’. Just divide the bill for NPR equally among all petition signers.
Oh c’mon, they said they were such an important part of our media landscape.
Yeah, we all sit of pins and needles for their next broadcast, not!
of = on
Defund? Heck no — I want NPR to repay every public dime it has ever received. Either that, or shut it down and sell off the equipment for scrap.
Do these people have any idea how insignificant NPR is when it comes to reliable news sources? By a huge margin, the number of Americans who wouldn't even notice if it disappeared would dwarf the Birkenstock wearing few whose lives might be "culturally" impacted.
And while I really enjoy Car Talk, my life would be virtually the same without it.
Defund the CPB ASAP!
CPB got $1.1 billion dollars this year in TAX revenue. ZOWIE!
I like the idea of getting rid of them permanently here’s one suggestion.
How to Get Rid of NPR. For Good.
http://www.garynorth.com/public/7159.cfm
wipe off your chin
In response to an old PBS tagline: “If PBS doesn’t do it, who will?”
Discovery Channel
Travel Channel
History Channel
BBC America
Bloomberg
FOX News and other 24 hour News channels
Animal Planet
C-SPAN
Not only these stations and MORE, but in the case of Masterpiece Theatre and other programs, they can be purchased on US DVD’s. PBS-Its demise whose time has come.
Do these people have any idea how insignificant NPR is when it comes to reliable news sources? By a huge margin, the number of Americans who wouldn't even notice if it disappeared would dwarf the Birkenstock wearing few whose lives might be "culturally" impacted.Defunding could not only destroy NPR as we know it, but also deal a significant blow to the entire public interest media sector.
The idea of finding out what is going on from a government - funded propaganda operation is beneath contempt.
Why don’t these commie maggots down at “change”. org fund NPR. It’s THEIR commie radio station.
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