The 60s and 70s are over. Nick Jr. is brilliant learning for kids today. PBS can sell DVD and CD's at 500% mark up every 20 mins between their shows all year to make up for us not paying for it.
Posted on 02/19/2011 3:15:17 PM PST by tobyhill
Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D) says he knows there's a need to cut back, but doesn't understand why the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) got the ax.
During a Saturday interview with Fox News, Blumenauer lamented, "It is unfortunate we are zeroing in on this little piece."
The House of Representatives voted to eliminate the CPB's funding as part of a government spending bill that was passed in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting provides support for ventures like National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS, home of "Sesame Street."
Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., says the vote reflects the will of the people, and that its time "to get our fiscal house in order."
This wasn't Lamborn's first push to stop taxpayer money from paying for public programming. His proposal to eliminate federal funding for NPR won a weekly "YouCut" vote last year, but failed in the 111th Congress.
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.blogs.foxnews.com ...
Old Chinese proverb applies here: "The longest journey begins with the first step."
Woohoo! Let the leftist maggots squirm on the open market!
Big Bird and company make more in licensing and fees than some entire networks. Why we have paid for this Bolshevik TV for so long is beyond me. It was Air America with pictures.
The Senate is still a problem.
It also provides funds for the radical left Pacifica Radio
Newt and his boys tried to do it in ‘95 and the dems did commercials of little kids crying, “Don't kill Big Bird.”
As if the folks that make all the Sesame Street stuff need our taxpayer dollars to subsidize them.
NPR, what a joke, an arm of the marxist dem party.
Yeh, it’s a crying shame that tax payers will not be forced to financially support the liberal media.
...and obama.
They cut money going to National Endowment for Artsy-Fartsy too.
I think we have to thank the Wisconsin Deomcrat state Senators for their diversionary tactic on Friday that took the national medial spotlight off of Washington long enough for the Republicans to pull this off. ;-)
Wow! Now where will go to see jars of urine with the Cross immersed in it or scenes like that?
The 60s and 70s are over. Nick Jr. is brilliant learning for kids today. PBS can sell DVD and CD's at 500% mark up every 20 mins between their shows all year to make up for us not paying for it.
I’m sure Soros and the Hollywood Libs can cough up the dough to save their favorite propaganda outlets, if it really means that much to them.
Amen! And let the worthy formats hitherto monopolized by public funding thrive on the open market!
Jazz, folk, classical, radio drama, pre-TV radio shows from the 40s -- how many would-be independent stations could have filled those niches, if not for tax-subsidized competition from public radio combined with onerous regulation?
I know a lot of conservatives who like jazz, folk, classical, etc. NPR only serves to politicize and divide through music, using OUR dollars to do harm. Disgusting.
Newtie Grinchrich is not going to like this...
In 2009 the Muppets earned 96 million in FOREIGN rights income - how much did PBS get? ZERO they don't pay much of their income for a franchise that would not have happened without FREE kid eyes.
BY the way if Public ED TV was so great how come most kids are not better in school as compared to other countries?
The only way to kill this turkey is forced privatization and a public sale.
>> “The Senate is still a problem.” <<
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Nope!
The House controls the money.
No, we're not just zeroing in on this one little piece. We are going to be demanding cuts to a lot of programs.
Also, characterizing something as "one little piece" is a cheap attempt at trying to minimize it. There are no little pieces to the leviathan the federal government has become. It is all one big whole, that must be hacked back to a reasonable, Constitutional scope. To borrow a favorite buzzword going around: the federal government is unsustainable in its current form, it must be de-scoped.
>> “Newt and his boys tried to do it in ‘95” <<
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NO!
Newt blocked the effort. He wouldn’t let the bill be voted on the floor.
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