Posted on 07/21/2012 7:48:23 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- PBS President Paula Kerger said Saturday she's disappointed public TV's federal funding again is under attack by lawmakers.
The move is ironic, she said, given the impressive number of Emmy Award nominations earned last week by PBS programs, including the popular drama "Downton Abbey." PBS received 58 nods, second only to HBO and CBS.
Public television gets 15 percent of its money from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with the rest largely contributed by viewers, Kerger told a meeting of the Television Critics Association.
But some stations would lose more than half their money if funds are cut, and a number of them will be forced to "go dark," she said.
A loss of federal dollars "would eliminate public broadcasting in areas I know it's tremendously used," Kerger said. She cited a small Cookeville, Tenn., station that has...
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Here's a deal. We cut all federal funding for all domestic public broadcasting. When you cite the article and section in the Constitution that says the govt shall award Emmy's to public broadcasts, then funding shall be restored...
WOW! I didn't know HBO and C BS received federal money.
Yep, no self-interest there
Here’s another way PBS lies - the non-advertiser advertisers... (about a fourth of the way in the tape)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFOmUXR080
Really??? Just what empirical evidence do you have of that possibility?
The GOP has "BLAH, BLAH, BLAH"'d this kind of crap in every election since 1994, but somehow they have never shut it down...
NPR & NEA are, for the GOP, just windmills.
I saw both of them at the last tribal luncheon. Nice Squaws!
I saw both of them at the last tribal luncheon. Nice Squaws!
They can’t be in the same room. If they get to close a singularity of hypocrisy would form and alter the fabric of space-time. We would have what’s known as a liberal hole. It would suck in all the surrounding responsibility and nothing good would be able to escape it. It needs to be avoided at all costs because then there would be nothing for the progressives to leech off of. The remaining lefties would have to actually produce something of value. Given that they are incapable, they would all starve after they had eaten the few children that they hadn’t aborted.
How many antique shows do we really need ?
PBS should get their funding from the Demaocrat Party.
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