Zoroastor (271 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Mar-18-11 08:13 PM
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Why Big Bird Needs And Deserves Your Tax Dollars...
This is absolutely not about budgetary issues or saving money. The right has been chomping at the bit to shut off funding to NPR and PBS for decades. http://cons-lie.com/2011/03/18/why-big-bird-needs-your-... /
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x685353Big Bird can get a job at Mr Hooper's store and fund his own ass.
Countdown_3_2_1 (474 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Mar-18-11 08:15 PM
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1. In all fairness. Sessame Stree merchandising can probably fund all of PBS.
Edited on Fri Mar-18-11 08:15 PM by Countdown_3_2_1
Thats a LOT of money coming in right there.
Its NPR that needs the tax dollars.
And we need cowboy poetry or Harry Reid will keep whining.
Zoroastor (271 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Mar-18-11 08:16 PM
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2. Good point, but I don't know...
...running a network is probably pretty expensive.
Nah it can run off of rainbows and lollipops.
Countdown_3_2_1 (474 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Mar-18-11 08:22 PM
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3. Selling commercials isn't that difficult. Its not the end of the world.
What if funding stays and the pukes come in power and mess with PBS new programs cause they are "paying for them."
Govt money means strings attached. I would rather PBS be free to do what ever it wants. Just watch what happens then!
Hmm sounds like an argument we use against Obamacare.
bread_and_roses (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Mar-18-11 08:44 PM
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4. for goddess sake, you don't think commercials come with "strings attached"???
what universe have you been living in? You think commercial stations are "free to do whateverwant? 
Well, Rush, Hannity, and Beck can spread their hate and lies that way, right?
bread_and_roses (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Mar-18-11 08:48 PM
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5. I'll support "public" radio/tv when it's "public" - no corporate $$
The neither-this-nor-that mix we have doesn't work real well. And the Federal funding should be set up to be free of Party changes, etc. Then, maybe we'd see more real reporting, and less with the endless "features" which now seem to dominate 45 minutes out of the hour.
Hmm if you taxed the corporations like you want too, it would all be corporate money then.
