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PBS chief decries efforts to cut federal funding
Associated Press ^
| Jul 21, 2012, 7:18 PM EDT
| LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer
Posted on 07/21/2012 7:48:23 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
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It's awe-inspiring, really, how they manage to simultaneously claim that such a small percentage of their funding is taken involuntarily from taxpayers, and yet that the loss of that meager bit of funding would be devastating.
To: Hunton Peck
The move is ironic, she said, given the impressive number of Emmy Award nominations earned last week by PBS programs Well, then you are good enough to go sell soap and Ginsu knives like everyone else.
It burns me that some people actually get a superiority kick for being a pig at a trough.
To: Hunton Peck
It's no secret that PBS has been hard left for decades -- but in the past, they've at least made an effort to appear
slightly objective.
Under Obama, and after the Tea Party, all that went out the window. These people know what will happen in Republicans come back into power. They don't want that. Their political coverage now comes straight out of the White House. Anything Democrat is double-plus good. Anything else is just bad, stupid, un-American and laughable.
And still they will smile and say "We're completely unbiased."
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posted on
07/21/2012 7:53:20 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Roger Taney? Not a bad Chief Justice. John Roberts? A really awful Chief Justice.)
To: Hunton Peck
??? Strange article? Only people against defunding are quoted. Oh it’s the AP.
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posted on
07/21/2012 7:53:39 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Hunton Peck
LOL! Cry me a river Paula.
/johnny
To: Hunton Peck
They manage to avoid mentioning funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities and plenty of other fed sources including free broadcast frequencies, nor do they mention money from states.
Sesame Street is worth a billion dollars; Red Green, Garrison Keillor and other shows are worth millions each. They should pay for ALL of ‘public’ television and radio themselves if their calling is so noble.
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posted on
07/21/2012 7:58:44 PM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: Hunton Peck
Taxpayer funds should never be used to sponsor radio or TV content. Period. Having government’s hand in programming is a very bad idea.
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posted on
07/21/2012 8:02:08 PM PDT
by
Gabrial
(The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the White House)
To: Hunton Peck
Kerger said it’s “disappointing to me when you look at the value the American public places” on PBS....Yeah, none.
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posted on
07/21/2012 8:02:28 PM PDT
by
Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: Hunton Peck
Which part of we are broke do they not understand?
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posted on
07/21/2012 8:03:27 PM PDT
by
animal172
(Calling the Founding Fathers!! We need your help.)
To: Gabrial
I sort of like it to hear the enimies plans
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posted on
07/21/2012 8:06:53 PM PDT
by
Dosa26
(JURY NULLIFICATION! IT'S THE LAW)
To: jjotto
we have a news pubic radio station and a classical music public radio station in denver. i listen to the classical station a lot. one thing funny is the way they say they don’t do commercials (having people pay us to run ads is so beneath us) but they run spots for companies that “donate” enough money. no difference both are voluntary exchange of money but the spots make them feel superior to all the other stations.
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posted on
07/21/2012 8:06:54 PM PDT
by
bravo whiskey
(If the little things really bother you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
To: Vince Ferrer
"Well, then you are good enough to go sell soap and Ginsu knives like everyone else. "They already air 'infomercials' masquarading as 'specials' during their fund raisers. And for 'commercial free t.v., they sure have a lot of them under the guise of "this programming bought to you by...."
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posted on
07/21/2012 8:09:00 PM PDT
by
ex91B10
(We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
To: Dosa26
If free, I agree. I just don’t want to be forced to pay for it!
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posted on
07/21/2012 8:11:29 PM PDT
by
Gabrial
(The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the White House)
To: Hunton Peck
Downtown Abbey isn’t made by PBS. They simply show it in the US. It’s shameless that she lists it as a success.
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posted on
07/21/2012 8:28:34 PM PDT
by
Timmy
To: Timmy
Thanks for pointing that out! I had no idea (not having been a PBS viewer for a good decade or so).
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posted on
07/21/2012 8:32:59 PM PDT
by
Hunton Peck
(This too, shall pass, unless we're in Harry Reid's Senate and "this" is a budget.)
To: Hunton Peck
PBS didn't earn those Emmy nominations.
Those nominations belong to the people who built PBS.
They drive to work on the roads we built and use the electricity that belongs to everyone. Just ask Premier Obamaski
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posted on
07/21/2012 8:35:20 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
To: Hunton Peck
Public television gets 15 percent of its money from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting, They may get 15% directly, they probably get a lot of their budget indirectly from the federal government.
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posted on
07/21/2012 8:37:58 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
To: Timmy
Downtown Abbey isnt made by PBS. They simply show it in the US. Its shameless that she lists it as a success.
Right...it is a British series that PBS airs. For those of us who don't watch broadcast TV, it can be purchased on DVD. PBS has the distribution rights, I'm guessing (their logo is on the DVD), so taking credit for its commercial success here is as you said, shameless and completely disingenuous. Kind of like PBS' "balance".
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posted on
07/21/2012 8:39:35 PM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: bravo whiskey
When I first moved to the Austin, TX, area I used to listen to the local PBS station’s music on my way to work. But every quarter they had a week-long beg-a-thon that became so irritating that I finally quit listening to the station.
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posted on
07/21/2012 8:46:40 PM PDT
by
RightWingConspirator
(Obamanation--the most corrupt regime since Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe)
To: Hunton Peck
I’m for anything that will put PBS off the air hopefully PERMINATLY!!!!
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posted on
07/21/2012 8:56:35 PM PDT
by
dalereed
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