Friday, June 17, 2005
For once it's true
So I got this forward email today from my sister entitled "The end of NPR and PBS". Usually I am skeptical of email forwards, many times they turn out to be hoaxes or really off from the original story. When I get the urge I'll check them out at Snopes.com and today I did. Well it turns out this email is true and there is a decent article about it in the Washington Post from Friday the 10th (this site requires registration but you can get around it by going to bugmenot.com and getting a fake username). There really is activity in the House that would completely cut funding for public broadcasting within a few years. Moveon.org would like you to sign their petition. This is all fine and dandy but at the same time if people actually want to get heard they should also contact their local House Representative. And encourage others in the same district to make contact as well.
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Hey! You can even wrtie a note on the petition; here's mine....
Public broacasting hosts some of the only valuable programming left on television and radio. Commercial radio has become formattted, unoriginal, and frankly, un-listenable. Network and cable television programming is not far behind becoming more and more saturated with mindless drivel; while PBS and other public broadcasters continue to provide programs that enlighten, educate, and truly entertain. The American people would be losing one of their most important cultural outlets and resources that exists today if we were to lose these organizations.
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