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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> </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV></FONT>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=damien.mathew@gmail.com href="mailto:damien.mathew@gmail.com">Damien
Mathew</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> Saturday, February 12, 2011 6:14
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> 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
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:dlj725@hughes.net">dlj725@hughes.net</A>></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>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <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> <A title=dlj725@hughes.net
href="mailto:dlj725@hughes.net" target=_blank>David Johnson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 12, 2011
7:44 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> 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 dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:dlj725@hughes.net"
target=_blank>dlj725@hughes.net</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I
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: #ccc 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>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><BR><BR>Begin
forwarded message:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">*From:
*Troy Burks <<A href="mailto:burkstroy@yahoo.com"
target=_blank>burkstroy@yahoo.com</A> <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> <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> <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> <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> <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> <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> <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> <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> <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> <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> <mailto:<A
href="mailto:rothsch2@gmail.com"
target=_blank>rothsch2@gmail.com</A>>>, Benita Gay<BR><<A
href="mailto:bgay@communityelements.org"
target=_blank>bgay@communityelements.org</A> <mailto:<A
href="mailto:bgay@communityelements.org"
target=_blank>bgay@communityelements.org</A>>>,
Bernice<BR>Harrington <<A href="mailto:bharring@illinois.edu"
target=_blank>bharring@illinois.edu</A> <mailto:<A
href="mailto:bharring@illinois.edu"
target=_blank>bharring@illinois.edu</A>>>, Bill<BR><<A
href="mailto:hardheadent@vzw.blackberry.net"
target=_blank>hardheadent@vzw.blackberry.net</A> <mailto:<A
href="mailto:hardheadent@vzw.blackberry.net"
target=_blank>hardheadent@vzw.blackberry.net</A>>>,<BR>Brandon
Bowersox <<A href="mailto:brandonbowersox@gmail.com"
target=_blank>brandonbowersox@gmail.com</A><BR><mailto:<A
href="mailto:brandonbowersox@gmail.com"
target=_blank>brandonbowersox@gmail.com</A>>>, Brian Dolinar
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target=_blank>briandolinar@gmail.com</A><BR><mailto:<A
href="mailto:briandolinar@gmail.com"
target=_blank>briandolinar@gmail.com</A>>>, Byron Clark
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target=_blank>byroncl@gmail.com</A><BR><mailto:<A
href="mailto:byroncl@gmail.com"
target=_blank>byroncl@gmail.com</A>>>, carol ammons <<A
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target=_blank>carolammons@gmail.com</A><BR><mailto:<A
href="mailto:carolammons@gmail.com"
target=_blank>carolammons@gmail.com</A>>>, Carol Inskeep
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target=_blank>carolinskeep@yahoo.com</A><BR><mailto:<A
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target=_blank>carolinskeep@yahoo.com</A>>>, Charlie Smyth
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href="mailto:csmyth@sbcglobal.net"
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target=_blank>chrishamb@chrishamb.com</A><BR><mailto:<A
href="mailto:chrishamb@chrishamb.com"
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Cumpston <<A href="mailto:cope.c@comcast.net"
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<cwalker@Brv-llc.com<BR><mailto:<A
href="mailto:cwalker@Brv-llc.com"
target=_blank>cwalker@Brv-llc.com</A>>>, Crystal Thomas
<<A href="mailto:crystal_s_thomas@hotmail.com"
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href="mailto:crystal_s_thomas@hotmail.com"
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Square <<A href="mailto:gsquare@parkland.edu"
target=_blank>gsquare@parkland.edu</A><BR><mailto:<A
href="mailto:gsquare@parkland.edu"
target=_blank>gsquare@parkland.edu</A>>>, CU Toriano Harvey
<<A href="mailto:t.harvey.4@hotmail.com"
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href="mailto:t.harvey.4@hotmail.com"
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Chynoweth<BR><<A href="mailto:danielle@prometheusradio.org"
target=_blank>danielle@prometheusradio.org</A> <mailto:<A
href="mailto:danielle@prometheusradio.org"
target=_blank>danielle@prometheusradio.org</A>>>,
Danis<BR>Pelmore <<A href="mailto:Danispelmore@comcast.net"
target=_blank>Danispelmore@comcast.net</A> <mailto:<A
href="mailto:Danispelmore@comcast.net"
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Debarah<BR>McFarland <<A href="mailto:DMcFarland@DMBGC-CU.ORG"
target=_blank>DMcFarland@DMBGC-CU.ORG</A> <mailto:<A
href="mailto:DMcFarland@DMBGC-CU.ORG"
target=_blank>DMcFarland@DMBGC-CU.ORG</A>>>,
Dennis<BR>Roberts <<A
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target=_blank>drobertscitycouncil@yahoo.com</A><BR><mailto:<A
href="mailto:drobertscitycouncil@yahoo.com"
target=_blank>drobertscitycouncil@yahoo.com</A>>>, Diane
Marlin <<A href="mailto:marlindiane@gmail.com"
target=_blank>marlindiane@gmail.com</A><BR><mailto:<A
href="mailto:marlindiane@gmail.com"
target=_blank>marlindiane@gmail.com</A>>><BR>*Subject: **Fw:
Save NPR and PBS*<BR><BR><BR><BR>--- On *Fri, 2/11/11, Daniel
Mintz, MoveOn.org Political Action<BR>/<<A
href="mailto:moveon-help@list.moveon.org"
target=_blank>moveon-help@list.moveon.org</A> <mailto:<A
href="mailto:moveon-help@list.moveon.org"
target=_blank>moveon-help@list.moveon.org</A>>>/*
wrote:<BR><BR><BR> From: Daniel Mintz, MoveOn.org
Political Action<BR> <<A
href="mailto:moveon-help@list.moveon.org"
target=_blank>moveon-help@list.moveon.org</A> <mailto:<A
href="mailto:moveon-help@list.moveon.org"
target=_blank>moveon-help@list.moveon.org</A>>><BR>
Subject: Save NPR and PBS<BR> To: "Rev. Troy A.
Burks" <<A href="mailto:burkstroy@yahoo.com"
target=_blank>burkstroy@yahoo.com</A> <mailto:<A
href="mailto:burkstroy@yahoo.com"
target=_blank>burkstroy@yahoo.com</A>>><BR>
Date: Friday, February 11, 2011, 7:07 PM<BR><BR><BR><<A
href="http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?id=26078-17377114-0nf7g3x&t=1"
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>
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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 now.<BR><BR> Add your name to the
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The petition says: "/Congress must protect NPR and PBS and
guarantee them<BR> permanent funding, free 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 the Budget,"
/The New York Times/, February 10, 2011<BR> <A
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