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I continue to support NPR and PBS, convoluted (pollluted) arguments to the contrary. Without them the wasteland would increase greatly. They offer more than just news. They offer points of view and stories of interest not covered in other outlets. I feel connected to others that use them. In a world of vituperation I find mostly common ground with others like myself, imperfect, but essentially trying to do what is best for others in a maddeningly complex world. I am with Belden and Mike on this. I am glad they are here. As well as others like them.<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">To: peace@lists.chambana.net<br>From: a-fields@uiuc.edu<br>Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:59:02 -0600<br>Subject: [Peace] Fwd: [sf-core] Fwd: Save NPR and PBS<br><br>
<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica">Belden Fields <<a href="mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu">a-fields@uiuc.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica">February 12, 2011 11:50:02 AM CST</font></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica">"C. G. ESTABROOK" <<a href="mailto:cge@shout.net">cge@shout.net</a>></font></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica">SFcore <<a href="mailto:sf-core@yahoogroups.com">sf-core@yahoogroups.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [sf-core] Fwd: Save NPR and PBS</b></font></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div> <div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Well said Mike.<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>I could not agree with you more.<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>What NPR brings to <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">us is at least civil and intelligent discussion of public affairs.<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">We may disagree with the policy or ideological positions of the <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">speakers, and we may feel that the range is not broad enough <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">(fortunately we have McChesney locally), but civility and <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">intelligence are rare enough over the commercial airwaves that we <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">should not forsake NPR and PBS,<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>There is some very good broadcasting <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">on both of these if one searches it out.<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>Purity we don't have--and <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">never will</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">even on our community outlets.<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>In fact, I'm pretty sure I don't want <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">ideological purity.<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>I will contribute to NPR/PBS, just as I do to <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">the IMC and WEFT.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Thanks again Mike.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Belden</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">On Feb 12, 2011, at 11:22 AM, C. G. ESTABROOK wrote:</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div> <blockquote><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Efforts should be made instead to tear down the effective <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">censorship of Al</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Jazeera and promote Link TV, Free Speech TV, etc.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>"I heard them say the revolution won't be televised /</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>al-Jazeera proved them wrong, Twitter has them paralyzed..."</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>--Syrian-American rapper Omar Offendum</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">On 2/12/11 10:42 AM, Mike Lehman wrote:</div> <blockquote><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">While I really can't dispute the criticisms of NPR (and PBS) and am</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">regularly disappointed by them, I think it's wholly <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">counterproductive to</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">presume that the elimination of either would benefit those seeking</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">alternatives to the present system.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Society needs more spaces where something other than FAUX News and</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Corporate News Network prevail. It may not be a perfect space, and</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">certainly never enough to justifiably satisfy some critics, but</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">eliminating "public" broadcasting would serve FAUX and CNN, rather <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">than</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">weaken the system that make the broader conversations our society <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">needs</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">so difficult. Neither CNN or FAUX is subject to public pressure, <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">while</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">"public" broadcasting is, however much it still falls short of what</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">would be ideal.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">I can see people saying they won't lift a finger to help PBS and NPR.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">But urging others to join the Republicans in helping eliminate one of</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">the few spaces left where a progressive argument at least gets aired</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">from time to time isn't something I consider to be an effective <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">strategy</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">to building alternative media spaces that challenge the status quo.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">The masses of teeming apathy have to have someplace comfortable to <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">start</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">a journey to alternative ways of looking at the world and our <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">society.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Slamming the gate to the path to move from the garden of evil into <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">the</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">garden of justice and peace is not going to cause more than a very <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">few</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">to look to jump over the fence instead.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">And I doubt if either is going away, even if the Repugnicans/Tea <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Party</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">get their fantasy of eliminating both. They'll just become more</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">dependent on corporate cash -- and that will make all the things they</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">are criticized for worse.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Far better to waste such physic and political energy on better</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">alternatives so that once people are roused from their sleep, they <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">have</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">a place to grab a cup of coffee to steel their nerves to go beyond <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">the</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">conflicted American dreamscape that PBS and NPR offer. Revolution is</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">what we build, not what we help reactionaries tear down.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Mike Lehman</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">On 2/11/2011 10:11 PM, David Johnson wrote:</div> <blockquote><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">I have had no use for NPR ( National Public Radio ) and PBS TV <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">for quite</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">some time.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Cases in point....</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">The propoganda campaign they aired when Reagan died a few years <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">ago ( may</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">his soul rot in hell ) that presented Reagan as an idolized icon, <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">with NO</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">counter view of Reagan and his disasterous foreign ( can you say <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">" war</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">crimes " ) policy and his disasterous neo-liberal / neo-conservative</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">domestic policies.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Then there was the coverage of the People's Historian Howard Zinn <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">when he</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">died a little over a year ago. The ONLY view about Howard Zinn <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">presented on</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">NPR was the trash job on Zinn done by David Howoritz.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">NPR is nothing but FOX " news " for the intelligencia.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">The reason of course for NPR's de-evolution is the ever <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">increasing reliance</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">over the years on corporate funding.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">I could care less if NPR goes off the air.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">It would be one less corporate news outlet.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">What suprises me is the large number of seemingly well educated and</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">supposedly " compasionate and progressive " people who still <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">listen to NPR's</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">corpoarte trash and consider it an " opposition " and " objective <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">" news</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">source.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">David J.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">From: "C. G. ESTABROOK"<<a href="mailto:cge@shout.net">cge@shout.net</a>></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">To: "Belden Fields"<<a href="mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu">a-fields@uiuc.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Cc: "Walter Feinberg"<<a href="mailto:wfeinber@illinois.edu">wfeinber@illinois.edu</a>>; "Fred Coombs Fred <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Coombs"</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:coombs@rainbowtel.net">coombs@rainbowtel.net</a>>; "SFcore"<<a href="mailto:sf-core@yahoogroups.com">sf-core@yahoogroups.com</a>>;</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:sadougla@illinois.edu">sadougla@illinois.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 9:01 PM</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Subject: Re: [sf-core] Fwd: Save NPR and PBS</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div> <blockquote><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">National Propaganda Radio? Why?</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">NPR reports on Obama's war in the Mideast probably don't differ <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">formally</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">from</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">official Russian accounts during their invasion of Afghanistan. <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">They would</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">have</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">discussed how can we get victory, how can we destroy the <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">terrorists, will</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">this</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">tactic work, will that tactic work, we're losing too many <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">soldiers and so</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">on. We</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">assume that no one in the official Russian media asked, Do we <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">have a right</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">to</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">invade another country? And of course NPR doesn't do that either.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">But NPR has far less excuse. With media under totalitarian <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">control, if you</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">said</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">the wrong thing you'd go off to the gulag. Here it's just willing</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">subordination</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">to power. The result is no main-stream journalism - even <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">(particularly?)</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">NPR -</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">that goes beyond the college newspaper cheering for the home team.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Chris Hedges prefaces his important new book, "The Death of the <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Liberal</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Class,"</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">with a passage from Orwell's suppressed introduction to Animal <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Farm:</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">ideas which it</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">is</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">question. It is</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">not</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">done' to</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">say</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was 'not done' to mention <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">trousers</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">in the</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">orthodoxy finds</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">himself</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">unfashionable opinion</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">is</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">or in the</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">highbrow periodicals" - and, he might have added, on highbrow <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">radio.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">During the presidential campaign Obama said that the spectrum of</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">discussion in</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">the United States extends between two crazy extremes, Rush <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Limbaugh and</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">NPR. The</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">truth, he said, is in the middle and that is where he is going <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">to be - in</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">the</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">middle, between the crazies.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Obama has a way of telling the truth about his right-wing politics,</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">certain that</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">no one will hear him.<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>NPR certainly won't tell.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">On 2/11/11 7:55 PM, Belden Fields wrote:</div> <blockquote><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Begin forwarded message:</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div> <blockquote><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">*From: *Troy <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Burks<<a href="mailto:burkstroy@yahoo.com">burkstroy@yahoo.com</a><<a href="mailto:burkstroy@yahoo.com">mailto:burkstroy@yahoo.com</a>>></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">*Date: *February 11, 2011 1:28:18 PM CST</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">*To: *A EL-<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Jamal<<a href="mailto:sbygrace@yahoo.com">sbygrace@yahoo.com</a><<a href="mailto:sbygrace@yahoo.com">mailto:sbygrace@yahoo.com</a>>>, Aaron</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Ammons<<a href="mailto:livingsoul@sbcglobal.net">livingsoul@sbcglobal.net</a><<a href="mailto:livingsoul@sbcglobal.net">mailto:livingsoul@sbcglobal.net</a>>><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">,</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Andre</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Arrington<<a href="mailto:aarrington@DMBGC-CU.ORG">aarrington@DMBGC-CU.ORG</a><<a href="mailto:aarrington@DMBGC-">mailto:aarrington@DMBGC-</a><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">CU.ORG>>,</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Angela</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Barbee<<a href="mailto:evansbarbee@yahoo.com">evansbarbee@yahoo.com</a><<a href="mailto:evansbarbee@yahoo.com">mailto:evansbarbee@yahoo.com</a>>>, Anna</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Henry</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:aphenry27@gmail.com">aphenry27@gmail.com</a><<a href="mailto:aphenry27@gmail.com">mailto:aphenry27@gmail.com</a>>>, Arthur Culver</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:culverar@champaignschools.org">culverar@champaignschools.org</a><<a href="mailto:culverar@champaignschools.o">mailto:culverar@champaignschools.o</a><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">rg>>,</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Barbara kessel<<a href="mailto:barkes@gmail.com">barkes@gmail.com</a><<a href="mailto:barkes@gmail.com">mailto:barkes@gmail.com</a>>>, <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Barbara</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Gillespie</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:bggillespie@sbcglobal.net">bggillespie@sbcglobal.net</a><<a href="mailto:bggillespie@sbcglobal.net">mailto:bggillespie@sbcglobal.net</a>>>, <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Belden</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Fields</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu">a-fields@uiuc.edu</a><<a href="mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu">mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu</a>>>, Ben Rothschild</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:rothsch2@gmail.com">rothsch2@gmail.com</a><<a href="mailto:rothsch2@gmail.com">mailto:rothsch2@gmail.com</a>>>, Benita Gay</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:bgay@communityelements.org">bgay@communityelements.org</a><<a href="mailto:bgay@communityelements.org">mailto:bgay@communityelements.org</a>>>,</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Bernice</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Harrington<<a href="mailto:bharring@illinois.edu">bharring@illinois.edu</a><<a href="mailto:bharring@illinois.edu">mailto:bharring@illinois.edu</a>>>, <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Bill</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:hardheadent@vzw.blackberry.net">hardheadent@vzw.blackberry.net</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:hardheadent@vzw.blackberry.net">mailto:hardheadent@vzw.blackberry.net</a>>>,</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Brandon Bowersox<<a href="mailto:brandonbowersox@gmail.com">brandonbowersox@gmail.com</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:brandonbowersox@gmail.com">mailto:brandonbowersox@gmail.com</a>>>, Brian Dolinar</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:briandolinar@gmail.com">briandolinar@gmail.com</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:briandolinar@gmail.com">mailto:briandolinar@gmail.com</a>>>, Byron Clark<<a href="mailto:byroncl@gmail.com">byroncl@gmail.com</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:byroncl@gmail.com">mailto:byroncl@gmail.com</a>>>, carol ammons<<a href="mailto:carolammons@gmail.com">carolammons@gmail.com</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:carolammons@gmail.com">mailto:carolammons@gmail.com</a>>>, Carol <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Inskeep<<a href="mailto:carolinskeep@yahoo.com">carolinskeep@yahoo.com</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:carolinskeep@yahoo.com">mailto:carolinskeep@yahoo.com</a>>>, Charlie <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Smyth<<a href="mailto:csmyth@sbcglobal.net">csmyth@sbcglobal.net</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:csmyth@sbcglobal.net">mailto:csmyth@sbcglobal.net</a>>>, Chris <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Hamb<<a href="mailto:chrishamb@chrishamb.com">chrishamb@chrishamb.com</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:chrishamb@chrishamb.com">mailto:chrishamb@chrishamb.com</a>>>, Claire Cape</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:claire.kirkcape351@gmail.com">claire.kirkcape351@gmail.com</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:claire.kirkcape351@gmail.com">mailto:claire.kirkcape351@gmail.com</a>>>, Cope Cumpston</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:cope.c@comcast.net">cope.c@comcast.net</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:cope.c@comcast.net">mailto:cope.c@comcast.net</a>>>, "Craig Walker <a href="mailto:cwsierramar@aol.com">cwsierramar@aol.com</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:cwsierramar@aol.com">mailto:cwsierramar@aol.com</a>>"<<a href="mailto:cwalker@Brv-llc.com">cwalker@Brv-llc.com</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:cwalker@Brv-llc.com">mailto:cwalker@Brv-llc.com</a>>>, Crystal Thomas</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:crystal_s_thomas@hotmail.com">crystal_s_thomas@hotmail.com</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:crystal_s_thomas@hotmail.com">mailto:crystal_s_thomas@hotmail.com</a>>>, CU Greg Square</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:gsquare@parkland.edu">gsquare@parkland.edu</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:gsquare@parkland.edu">mailto:gsquare@parkland.edu</a>>>, CU Toriano Harvey</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:t.harvey.4@hotmail.com">t.harvey.4@hotmail.com</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:t.harvey.4@hotmail.com">mailto:t.harvey.4@hotmail.com</a>>>, Danielle Chynoweth</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:danielle@prometheusradio.org">danielle@prometheusradio.org</a><<a href="mailto:danielle@prometheusradio.org">mailto:danielle@prometheusradio.org</a><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div> <blockquote><blockquote><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">,</div> </blockquote></blockquote><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Danis</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Pelmore<<a href="mailto:Danispelmore@comcast.net">Danispelmore@comcast.net</a><<a href="mailto:Danispelmore@comcast.net">mailto:Danispelmore@comcast.net</a>><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div> <blockquote><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">,</div> </blockquote><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Debarah</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">McFarland<<a href="mailto:DMcFarland@DMBGC-CU.ORG">DMcFarland@DMBGC-CU.ORG</a><<a href="mailto:DMcFarland@DMBGC-">mailto:DMcFarland@DMBGC-</a><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">CU.ORG>>,</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Dennis</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Roberts<<a href="mailto:drobertscitycouncil@yahoo.com">drobertscitycouncil@yahoo.com</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:drobertscitycouncil@yahoo.com">mailto:drobertscitycouncil@yahoo.com</a>>>, Diane Marlin</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:marlindiane@gmail.com">marlindiane@gmail.com</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:marlindiane@gmail.com">mailto:marlindiane@gmail.com</a>>></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">*Subject: **Fw: Save NPR and PBS*</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">--- On *Fri, 2/11/11, Daniel Mintz, MoveOn.org Political Action</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">/<<a href="mailto:moveon-help@list.moveon.org">moveon-help@list.moveon.org</a><<a href="mailto:moveon-">mailto:moveon-</a><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><a href="mailto:help@list.moveon.org">help@list.moveon.org</a>>>/*</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">wrote:</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>From: Daniel Mintz, MoveOn.org Political Action</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:moveon-help@list.moveon.org">moveon-help@list.moveon.org</a><<a href="mailto:moveon-">mailto:moveon-</a><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><a href="mailto:help@list.moveon.org">help@list.moveon.org</a>>></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>Subject: Save NPR and PBS</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>To: "Rev. Troy A. Burks"<<a href="mailto:burkstroy@yahoo.com">burkstroy@yahoo.com</a></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="mailto:burkstroy@yahoo.com">mailto:burkstroy@yahoo.com</a>>></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>Date: Friday, February 11, 2011, 7:07 PM</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><<a href="http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?" target="_blank">http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?</a><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">id=26078-17377114-0nf7g3x&t=1>"Congress</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>must protect NPR and PBS and guarantee them permanent <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">funding, free</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">from</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>political meddling."</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?" target="_blank">http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?</a><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">id=26078-17377114-0nf7g3x&t=1></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>Sign the petition</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?" target="_blank">http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?</a><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">id=26078-17377114-0nf7g3x&t=2></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>Dear MoveOn member,</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>I guess we shouldn't be surprised.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>With Republicans back in charge of the House of <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Representatives,</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">*funding</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>for NPR and PBS is in grave danger.* Again.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>The Republicans just released their budget proposal, and <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">it *zeroes</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">out</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>funding for both NPR and PBS*—the worst proposal in more <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">than a</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">decade.^1</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>They probably think that no one will notice these cuts <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">in the midst</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">of so</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>many others. But the millions of listeners and viewers <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">who rely on</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">public</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>broadcasting for "Sesame Street," "All Things <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Considered," and</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">independent</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>journalism will notice.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>We need to tell Republicans that cutting off funding was</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">unacceptable last</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>time they were in charge, and it's unacceptable now.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>Add your name to the petition to save NPR and PBS</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?" target="_blank">http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?</a><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">id=26078-17377114-0nf7g3x&t=3></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>The petition says: "/Congress must protect NPR and PBS <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">and guarantee</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">them</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>permanent funding, free from political meddling./"</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>Thanks for all you do.</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>–Daniel, Amy, Michael, Wes, and the rest of the team</div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>1. 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