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<DIV>" Excuse me?. On what station did I see Bill Moyers for years?
"</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And what happened to Bill Moyers ? and look
what it was replaced with.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>"On what station do I listen to my friend Bon McChesney on Sundays?"</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>LOCAL WILL PBS outlet . As I
said.....
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT>" Just to clarify, C-U's local WILL PBS radio station is
not bad and actually quite good at times compared to the national
NPR..."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"On what station do I see BBC at 5 pm? "</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You mean the American " sanitized " presentation of
the BBC ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>" On what station to do learn about new books by listening to author
interviews on Focus? On what station do I watch Master Piece Theater?
On what station do I learn about science from Nova. This is all
shit?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No Belden, it is not ALL shit, but on the same
subject, look what they did to the program FRONTLINE, which until the 1990's was
an excellent objective documentary program. Not any more, no view point but the
corporate agenda.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And as I said earlier, on what program did they
have David Howoritz trash historian Howard Zinn after his death with NOT ONE
positive presentation of Zinn, and on which program did they gush over
Ronald Reagan as if he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ with NOT ONE
viewpoint as to the bastard's real history and destruction both domesticly and
internationally.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And also, lets not forget when Michael Moore
was on after his film SICKO was released and how the interviewers on NPR
viciously attacked him, etc..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And how often are there documentaries about the
history of Unions and Working people ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Occasionally but NEVER on Labor Day.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And my favorite example is the re-release of Stanly
Kronower's (sp. ) PBS produced " VIETNAM A TELEVISION HISTORY " shown on PBS
Frontline during the mid 1980's.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The new release from PBS is CENSORED of many
critical aspects of the film and has corporate COMMERCIALS between
each episode on the dvd.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you really want to have good quality
national Public televison and radio</FONT> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>then we all ( and especially regular listeners / viewers ) need to demand
that corporate funding end and public funds and listener donations be the
primary source of funding, as opposed to just accepting the ever increasing
corporate control over PBS / NPR ; programs, viewpoints, etc.. and
pretending that it is the same PBS / NPR from 30 years ago.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the meantime, I will continue to promote ; Al
Jazeera, FreeSpeech TV, and LINK as REAL and balanced non-corporate news and
programing. Unlike MOST of NPR / PBS.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sincerely</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David Johnson</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=a-fields@uiuc.edu href="mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu">Belden Fields</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=dlj725@hughes.net
href="mailto:dlj725@hughes.net">David Johnson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 13, 2011 1:31
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [sf-core] Fwd: Save NPR and
PBS</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Excuse me?. On what station did I see Bill Moyers for
years? And the program that followed? On what station do I see BBC
at 5 pm? On what station do I listen to This American Life?
<DIV>On what station do I listen to BBC in the morning? On what station
do I listen to my friend Bon McChesney on Sundays? On what station to do
learn about new books by listening to author interviews on Focus? On
what station do I watch Master Piece Theater? On what station do I learn
about science from Nova. This is all shit? Then I'm really shitty
because I take it all in--just as I take in the good stuff on WEFT and WRFU.
We need to build on WEFT, WRFU, and the IMC in general. They are
wonderful given our resources. But we cannot reach a national audience
they way NPR and PBS can.</DIV>
<DIV>Belden<BR>
<DIV>
<DIV>On Feb 13, 2011, at 11:37 AM, David Johnson wrote:</DIV><BR
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>"Back to
the NPR issue, I think Urbana-Champaign is really lucky to have WEFT and
WRFU. Given those two media outlets, it can be easy to say that WILL
is shit, and why do we need it anyway, when we have two really great
community stations there already. I grew up in rural North Dakota.
Radio options there were 20 different Clear Channel stations or one
NPR. I'd hate to leave those folks with nothing but distilled
corporate media. I should also note that one of the two NPR stations
here actively promotes and produces community developed content, with maybe
30-40% of their weekday airtime going towards locally produced programming.
Without NPR support, that station couldn't keep the lights on, and if
they went that would mean a significant loss to the local media
infrastructure here. "</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Well
Damien, you made an extremely convincing arguement with the above paragraph
alone !</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Just to
clarify, C-U's local WILL PBS radio station is not bad and
actually quite good at times compared to the national NPR, which I still
contend is NOT much different in their promotion of corporate propoganda and
the exclusion of alternative viewpoints as CNN, FOX, et,al. The only
difference is the intellectual style and fluff.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>I do NOT
want to advocate for elimination of CPB as some seem to have interpreted, I
want the elimination of corporate funding, and in that regard, I am stating
that in it's present form I could care less if the corporate funded and
controlled NPR goes under.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>I would
advocate that local PBS should be preserved and influenced by the community
and in addition more support for FREE SPEECH TV, LINK and Al Jazeera at the
national level.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David J.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(228,228,228); background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><B>From:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A title=damien.mathew@gmail.com
href="mailto:damien.mathew@gmail.com">Damien Mathew</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A title=dlj725@hughes.net
href="mailto:dlj725@hughes.net">David Johnson</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Saturday, February 12, 2011 6:14
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Re: [sf-core] Fwd: Save NPR and
PBS</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>So, if I understand correctly, your objections to NPR are
that they are occasionally biased and that they are undemocratic. Is
that right?
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Well, if we rage against every
non-democratic institution in the country, we'll soon drive
ourselves crazy. As a publicly-funded corporation, NPR is responsive
to public demand in a way that fully private corporations are not.
They are dependent on sympathetic lawmakers to secure funding, and
those representatives can be swayed by mass protests or
actions.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>That they might be biased on occasion could be said for any media
outlet that offers commentary. If we are going to object to all
media with which we don't always agree 100% then we aren't asking for news
we're demanding propaganda. A free democratic society requires an
open forum for ideas to be vetted.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>As for your claims that there is no such thing as a political left or
right, I have to disagree. Of course every individual will have
different beliefs and ideas. We aren't perfectly divided between the
lefts and the rights. This is as it should be. To say that
because there isn't this perfect division of beliefs between individuals
implies that there is no left and right is not correct. Even to say
that there are characteristic beliefs that are left or right may not be
fully correct.. or at least often correct but not for the right reasons.
What distinguishes a left ideology or belief from a right
has to do with the logic behind the rationalization of the
ideology. Left beliefs or ideologies are "dialectical" in that they
are based on the concept of a class struggle that drives the progress of
history. Right ideologies generally ignore
the existence of class, or at least deny the role of class in
the progress and development of history. For the rightist, history
is made by great men (and in their minds rarely women) who led the
masses.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>So, let's take the example of gun control. A rightist believes
that the state should not limit an individual's right to own firearms,
because he/she doesn't want the state to limit any individual rights (lest
one of those individuals happen to be a Great Man/Woman
who's achievement would be tempered by the interference of the
state). A leftist could just as
easily rationalize the necessity for ensuring the
right to bear arms, but base this rationalization on the the class
struggle and the need to ensure that should the struggle devolve into
armed confrontation the side of progress/revolution will be able to effect
a meaningful opposition to the counter-revolutionary forces.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Back to the NPR issue, I think Urbana-Champaign is really lucky to
have WEFT and WRFU. Given those two media outlets, it can be easy to
say that WILL is shit, and why do we need it anyway, when we have two
really great community stations there already. I grew up in rural
North Dakota. Radio options there were 20 different Clear Channel
stations or one NPR. I'd hate to leave those folks with nothing but
distilled corporate media. I should also note that one of the two
NPR stations here actively promotes and produces community developed
content, with maybe 30-40% of their weekday airtime going towards locally
produced programming. Without NPR support, that station couldn't
keep the lights on, and if they went that would mean a significant loss to
the local media infrastructure here.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM, David
Johnson<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:dlj725@hughes.net">dlj725@hughes.net</A>></SPAN><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>How have you been Damien ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Yeah, IF, NPR / PBS could be 100 % viewer -
listener and publicly funded, with a
voter elected independent Board of Directors, I would be all
for it !</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I beg to differ with you however about
it's content and news coverage being " even handed " , merely
because it angers people on the " Right and the Left ".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The reality of the world at the moment is not so
much " Right and Left " , it is pro-corporate vs. pro
community / democracy.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Not to say there are not real differences in
the anti-corporate community.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>For instance, I consider my self as being on the
Left, yet I am opposed to gun control. There are many people who
consider themselves " conservatives " or even on the Right who are ;
opposed to the wars and occupation of Iraq and Afganistan,
NAFTA and the entire WTO / IMF / World Bank global economic system,
the Patriot Act and other anti-civil liberty laws.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Another example is the supposed Left / Right
coalition in support of net neutrality and the licensing of
low power and community stations. Because of this coalition existence
does NOT make the FCC et,al " even handed ".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hope all is well with you</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV><FONT color=#888888>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>David Johnson</FONT></DIV></FONT>
<DIV>
<DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(228,228,228); background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><B>From:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
title=damien.mathew@gmail.com href="mailto:damien.mathew@gmail.com"
target=_blank>Damien Mathew</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A title=dlj725@hughes.net
href="mailto:dlj725@hughes.net" target=_blank>David Johnson</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Saturday, February 12, 2011
7:44 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Re: [sf-core] Fwd: Save NPR
and PBS</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Yeah, the Howard Zinn thing was really upsetting, but
the fact that both the left and the right have issues with NPR
suggests that they are (for the most part) even-handed in their
analysis. The problem you mention with their bias leading from
corporate funding would be alleviated by increasing public
funding. I like the idea of having a publicly owned and operated
media outlet, and want it to continue. I don't need a news
source that I agree with 100% of the time, but I want a major
nationwide outlet that is as free as possible from the sway of
corporate influence. NPR and PBS can be that, and they aren't
too far from that mark. I want them to be
strengthened. <BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:11 PM, David
Johnson<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:dlj725@hughes.net"
target=_blank>dlj725@hughes.net</A>></SPAN><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>wrote:<BR>
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have had no use for NPR ( National Public Radio ) and PBS TV for
quite some time.<BR><BR>Cases in point....<BR><BR>The propoganda
campaign they aired when Reagan died a few years ago ( may his soul
rot in hell ) that presented Reagan as an idolized icon, with NO
counter view of Reagan and his disasterous foreign ( can you say "
war crimes " ) policy and his disasterous neo-liberal /
neo-conservative domestic policies.<BR><BR>Then there was the
coverage of the People's Historian Howard Zinn when he died a little
over a year ago. The ONLY view about Howard Zinn presented on NPR
was the trash job on Zinn done by David Howoritz.<BR><BR>NPR is
nothing but FOX " news " for the intelligencia.<BR><BR>The reason of
course for NPR's de-evolution is the ever increasing reliance over
the years on corporate funding.<BR><BR>I could care less if NPR goes
off the air.<BR>It would be one less corporate news outlet.<BR>What
suprises me is the large number of seemingly well educated and
supposedly " compasionate and progressive " people who still listen
to NPR's corpoarte trash and consider it an " opposition " and "
objective " news source.<BR><BR>David J.<BR><BR>----- Original
Message ----- From: "C. G. ESTABROOK" <<A
href="mailto:cge@shout.net"
target=_blank>cge@shout.net</A>><BR>To: "Belden Fields" <<A
href="mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu"
target=_blank>a-fields@uiuc.edu</A>><BR>Cc: "Walter Feinberg"
<<A href="mailto:wfeinber@illinois.edu"
target=_blank>wfeinber@illinois.edu</A>>; "Fred Coombs Fred
Coombs" <<A href="mailto:coombs@rainbowtel.net"
target=_blank>coombs@rainbowtel.net</A>>; "SFcore" <<A
href="mailto:sf-core@yahoogroups.com"
target=_blank>sf-core@yahoogroups.com</A>>; <<A
href="mailto:sadougla@illinois.edu"
target=_blank>sadougla@illinois.edu</A>><BR>Sent: Friday,
February 11, 2011 9:01 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [sf-core] Fwd: Save NPR
and PBS<BR><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">National
Propaganda Radio? Why?<BR><BR>NPR reports on Obama's war in the
Mideast probably don't differ formally from<BR>official Russian
accounts during their invasion of Afghanistan. They would
have<BR>discussed how can we get victory, how can we destroy the
terrorists, will this<BR>tactic work, will that tactic work, we're
losing too many soldiers and so on. We<BR>assume that no one in
the official Russian media asked, Do we have a right to<BR>invade
another country? And of course NPR doesn't do that
either.<BR><BR>But NPR has far less excuse. With media under
totalitarian control, if you said<BR>the wrong thing you'd go off
to the gulag. Here it's just willing subordination<BR>to power.
The result is no main-stream journalism - even (particularly?) NPR
-<BR>that goes beyond the college newspaper cheering for the home
team.<BR><BR>Chris Hedges prefaces his important new book, "The
Death of the Liberal Class,"<BR>with a passage from Orwell's
suppressed introduction to Animal Farm:<BR><BR> "At
any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it
is<BR>assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without
question. It is not<BR>exactly forbidden to say this, that or the
other, but it is 'not done' to say<BR>it, just as in mid-Victorian
times it was 'not done' to mention trousers in the<BR>presence of
a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds
himself<BR>silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely
unfashionable opinion is<BR>almost never given a fair hearing,
either in the popular press or in the<BR>highbrow periodicals" -
and, he might have added, on highbrow radio.<BR><BR>During the
presidential campaign Obama said that the spectrum of discussion
in<BR>the United States extends between two crazy extremes, Rush
Limbaugh and NPR. The<BR>truth, he said, is in the middle and that
is where he is going to be - in the<BR>middle, between the
crazies.<BR><BR>Obama has a way of telling the truth about his
right-wing politics, certain that<BR>no one will hear him.
NPR certainly won't tell.<BR><BR><BR>On 2/11/11 7:55 PM,
Belden Fields wrote:<BR>
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forwarded message:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">*From:
*Troy Burks <<A href="mailto:burkstroy@yahoo.com"
target=_blank>burkstroy@yahoo.com</A><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><mailto:<A
href="mailto:burkstroy@yahoo.com"
target=_blank>burkstroy@yahoo.com</A>>><BR>*Date:
*February 11, 2011 1:28:18 PM CST<BR>*To: *A EL-Jamal <<A
href="mailto:sbygrace@yahoo.com"
target=_blank>sbygrace@yahoo.com</A><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><mailto:<A
href="mailto:sbygrace@yahoo.com"
target=_blank>sbygrace@yahoo.com</A>>>, Aaron<BR>Ammons
<<A href="mailto:livingsoul@sbcglobal.net"
target=_blank>livingsoul@sbcglobal.net</A><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><mailto:<A
href="mailto:livingsoul@sbcglobal.net"
target=_blank>livingsoul@sbcglobal.net</A>>>,
Andre<BR>Arrington <<A
href="mailto:aarrington@DMBGC-CU.ORG"
target=_blank>aarrington@DMBGC-CU.ORG</A><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><mailto:<A
href="mailto:aarrington@DMBGC-CU.ORG"
target=_blank>aarrington@DMBGC-CU.ORG</A>>>,
Angela<BR>Barbee <<A href="mailto:evansbarbee@yahoo.com"
target=_blank>evansbarbee@yahoo.com</A><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><mailto:<A
href="mailto:evansbarbee@yahoo.com"
target=_blank>evansbarbee@yahoo.com</A>>>, Anna
Henry<BR><<A href="mailto:aphenry27@gmail.com"
target=_blank>aphenry27@gmail.com</A><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><mailto:<A
href="mailto:aphenry27@gmail.com"
target=_blank>aphenry27@gmail.com</A>>>, Arthur
Culver<BR><<A href="mailto:culverar@champaignschools.org"
target=_blank>culverar@champaignschools.org</A><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><mailto:<A
href="mailto:culverar@champaignschools.org"
target=_blank>culverar@champaignschools.org</A>>>,<BR>Barbara
kessel <<A href="mailto:barkes@gmail.com"
target=_blank>barkes@gmail.com</A><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><mailto:<A
href="mailto:barkes@gmail.com"
target=_blank>barkes@gmail.com</A>>>, Barbara
Gillespie<BR><<A href="mailto:bggillespie@sbcglobal.net"
target=_blank>bggillespie@sbcglobal.net</A><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><mailto:<A
href="mailto:bggillespie@sbcglobal.net"
target=_blank>bggillespie@sbcglobal.net</A>>>, Belden
Fields<BR><<A href="mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu"
target=_blank>a-fields@uiuc.edu</A><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><mailto:<A
href="mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu"
target=_blank>a-fields@uiuc.edu</A>>>, Ben
Rothschild<BR><<A href="mailto:rothsch2@gmail.com"
target=_blank>rothsch2@gmail.com</A><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><mailto:<A
href="mailto:rothsch2@gmail.com"
target=_blank>rothsch2@gmail.com</A>>>, Benita
Gay<BR><<A href="mailto:bgay@communityelements.org"
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**Fw: Save NPR and PBS*<BR><BR><BR><BR>--- On *Fri, 2/11/11,
Daniel Mintz, MoveOn.org Political Action<BR>/<<A
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Political Action<BR> <<A
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Subject: Save NPR and PBS<BR> To: "Rev. Troy
A. Burks" <<A href="mailto:burkstroy@yahoo.com"
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Date: Friday, February 11, 2011, 7:07
PM<BR><BR><BR><<A
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target=_blank>http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?id=26078-17377114-0nf7g3x&t=1</A>>"Congress<BR>
must protect NPR and PBS and guarantee them permanent
funding, free from<BR> political
meddling."<BR> <<A
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Dear MoveOn member,<BR><BR> I guess we
shouldn't be surprised.<BR><BR> With Republicans
back in charge of the House of Representatives,
*funding<BR> for NPR and PBS is in grave danger.*
Again.<BR><BR> The Republicans just released their
budget proposal, and it *zeroes out<BR> funding
for both NPR and PBS*—the worst proposal in more than a
decade.^1<BR><BR> They probably think that no one
will notice these cuts in the midst of so<BR> many
others. But the millions of listeners and viewers who rely on
public<BR> broadcasting for "Sesame Street," "All
Things Considered," and independent<BR> journalism
will notice.<BR><BR> We need to tell Republicans
that cutting off funding was unacceptable last<BR>
time they were in charge, and it's unacceptable
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The petition says: "/Congress must protect NPR and PBS
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from political meddling./"<BR><BR> Thanks for all
you do.<BR><BR> –Daniel, Amy, Michael, Wes, and
the rest of the team<BR><BR> 1. "Beyond Reason on
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