Posted on 02/19/2011 9:47:28 PM PST by Citizen X_Area 51
Hours after the House passed aggressive cuts to public media funding, the organization that oversees government money for NPR and PBS is sticking up for federal funding.
Patricia Harrison, the chief executive of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), made a case for public television and radio in a media landscape dominated by cable and migrating onto the Internet.
Her selling points: public media is local, trustworthy, and educational.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Geez!
"Paging Juan Williams. Please pick up the black courtesy phone."
What exactly do they air on PBS that is local? Most of the stuff seems to be something of national interest, such as This Old House or some concert. If I want local news I will listen to one of the local talk shows on the AM dial.
NPR and PBS are always yadda yadda about public support. They say the get most of their money from us or other organizations. So what’s the worry about not getting government support when it’s so little in the first place?
All public funding for liberal propaganda needs to be cut off.
I can’t believe we have allowed it to go on this long as it is.
There is some public broadcasting I like unrelated to liberal propaganda, but it can be picked up by other cable channels.
Of course, there's nothing stopping any state from financing NPR and PBS affiliates which operate within their borders, as per the 10th amendment... but why would they want to?
Ditto for the Dept. of Education!
I was flipping TV channels this morning and stopped at a PBS kids show with animal puppets. A hungry black cat forgets his school lunch money, so a white dog helps the cat out by telling him to help others in school with their schoolwork in exchange for lunch money. Cat makes money and then eats a nice sandwich. The best sandwich the cat ever had! Seems OK doesn’t it? Getting a job and earning money... That’s a good message.
So the next scene has the dog and cat back at the dog’s home and the dog’s parents are very ANGRY and DISAPPOINTED with the dog. Why? Because the dog did not SHARE his own lunch money with the cat and he made it even worse by his helping the cat to WORK for and EARN his lunch money!
It is scary what PBS is “teaching” children. This country is doomed unless we can get rid control of these liberals.
They get their funding from “viewers like us”,And also blah blah,govt.Thats what i hear at the ending of the road show.
Q: Could NPR live without federal funding?
A: Let’s go on a sidebar. There’s a misperception about federal funding and public radio. There’s the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. They receive $90 million a year and a vast majority goes to member public radio stations. Those stations pull in more than $1 billion collectively a year. It’s significant and important but not even close to the lion’s share of revenues for public radio. NPR gets no allocation from CPB. Zero. We are a private 501(c)3. We’ve had journalists call up and ask what department of the government we report to. That’s laughable. Have you listened to our shows? We do apply for competitive grants from the likes of the Ford Foundation and the Knight Foundation. As a result, some money from CPB does come to us when we win grants. Depending on the year, it represents just one to three percent of our total budget.
Q: What is your annual budget?
A: $160 million a year from station fees and dues, corporate underwriting, philanthropic contributions from individuals and corporation and earned income and earnings from our endowment.
Q: Could NPR live without federal funding?
A: There’s a misperception about federal funding and public radio. There’s the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. They receive $90 million a year and a vast majority goes to member public radio stations. Those stations pull in more than $1 billion collectively a year.
It’s significant and important but not even close to the lion’s share of revenues for public radio.
NPR CEO Vivian Schiller
Exactly my question. When this was first raised last year, the libs said that a small fraction of NPR/PBS money came from taxpayers.
If that’s the case, then why fight so hard against losing that tiny portion of funding?
The problem is simple - CPB, PBS, and NPR don’t mind taking money from all taxpayers, but they don’t produce a product that represents the view of all those taxpayers.
For example, only one side of the globull-warming argument is presented (i.e., the leftist view), with the other side often attacked. Same with oil drilling, nuclear power, Republican policies in general, and a host of other issues. (Don’t even get me started on their glamorization of Obama.)
If these networks only want to represent the views of a small portion of the US, why should the whole country be forced to pay for it? And if their products are of such high quality, let them stand on their own, without sponging off the public.
Prior to joining CPB in 2005, Ms. Harrison served as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs and Acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
In 1973 she, according to an official biographical note, co-founded the PR agency the E. Bruce Harrison Company with her husband E. Bruce Harrison. One biographical note states that while working with the company, which was sold in a merger deal in 1996, “she created and directed programs in the public interest comprising diverse stakeholder groups, including the National Environmental Development Association, a partnership of labor, agriculture and industry working for better environmental solutions together.”
former GOP chair Patricia S. Harrison
Harrison, a veteran public relations executive who served as co-chair of the Republican National Committee from 1997 to 2001 and now serves as assistant secretary of state, will need to employ her diplomatic skills to gain the support of many public broadcasters.
Here’s my “Selling Point” . . . it’s not Government’s function to be in this business, period. It runs a deficit, always has, and that won;t change.
So Patricia, your arguments don’t hold water, Furthermore, you draw a paycheck so you aren’t an objective observer. And if you had any sense about The Constitution you would know it’s wrong for Government to be involved in this crap in the first place.
Now go along and find another nice cushy little job in private industry. I dare you.
I doubt that NPR and PBS will have any problem
making up for lost funding. I’m sure that at
this very moment their liberal audience is just
chomping at the bit in their eagerness to become
new contributing members or to increase their pledges.
NPR and PBS are liberal propaganda machines. Stop all public funding of these monstrosities. Much of their programming is poor quality decades old programs and advertisements for health products (infomercials) around here. Really...aren’t LIBs and asshat DIMs just full-of-it?
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