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December 12, 2010
This Massive CPB Defunding Brought to You by the Letters F U
CPB has requested $608 million for its next funding cycle, which begins in 2013. So far, the current constellation of Republicans in the House and Senate do not seem inclined to grant that request.....
To compound the problem, when the leadership of PBS, NPR and the CPB trudge up the steps of congress to plead their case, they’ll find it’s not the same group of Republicans that cropped up the last time the party regained control. The band of moderates, who might be more willing to back public media as a necessary expenditure, has dwindled to near extinction.
Posted by Vanderleun at December 12, 2010 1:01 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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They shouldn't worry too much. Thay have the massive Sesame Street toy etc. empire to support their other endeavors.
And then get Ken Burns to do another documentary series - solid gold right there.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at December 12, 2010 1:26 PM
If they can't close those suppurating wounds, they should resign and go home.
Posted by: Fat Man at December 12, 2010 5:38 PM
I would love to hear the new leadership say, "No, you are not gettting any more money...and by the way, bring me the head of Terry Gross." In know, I know...but hey, I can dream, can't I?
P.S. can somebody tell me the name of the broadcasting school from which all on-air NPR clones must have graduated .....the one that teaches you how to automatically sound like a condescending, smug, blase a-hole with contempt for anyone outside NY or Wash. D.C. It is also the school that requires that any potentially hispanic-sounding word or name be pronounced with maximum "authenticity" replete with overly-rolled R's and phlegmy H sounds.
Posted by: Blastineau at December 13, 2010 9:21 AM
"...the name of the broadcasting school from which all on-air NPR clones..."
Draw the Microphone, close cover before striking School of Journalism and Window Installation.
Now you know!
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at December 13, 2010 10:39 AM
I hope you people are happy, now. Did anyone even think this out? Did anyone even think about the anguished cries of newly unemployed children in China who won't be making tote bags now? What about the children?!
Posted by: Jewel at December 13, 2010 4:01 PM
Fairness Doctrine FAIL.. I'm laughing out loud!!! Not at my own joke.. at the looks I'm imagining on their faces. Who do we thank? Rush? Fox News? Glenn Beck? or Obama himself for exposing the entire Leftist sham?
Posted by: RedCarolina at December 14, 2010 8:21 AM
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2010 8:04 PM
I found it again.
The Michael Kelly piece "All Is Lost". The perfect send up of NPR.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at December 17, 2010 7:25 PM
Here's something- apparently, the CPB is funding a monopoly- iBiquity is the sole patent holder on "HD Radio"- and the CPB is telling stations to convert to HD radio..which benefits Ibiquity ....good use of those tax dollars, huh?
Posted by: Anonymous at December 19, 2010 11:14 AM