PBS NPR CPB Deserves our Attention for a While

They'll try to corrupt it, they'll try to starve it, they'll try to destroy it. We need to work together to ensure that no-one succeeds in turning our last corner of the public airwaves into a latter-day version of Pravda.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/24/1349205

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If approved, the current budget reduction would amount to a 25 percent cut for public broadcasting - far less than the 46 percent originally proposed.
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Yesterday, the CPB board announced they had tapped former Republican party co-chair, Patricia Harrison, to lead the organization.
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What they're trying to do is use this to cloak efforts to create a more government-friendly news business. They have been very successful in co-opting commercial news, you see, in co-opting, embedding commercial reporters. Now they're marching on the non-commercial media system.
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[Is it possible that] the move to cut the funding was actually to some degree an attempt to take the heat off the actual move to put Harrison in, and in essence, get the public concern about restoring funding more than Harrison getting into office?
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[(Sounds like classic Rove to us)]
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you should go to Free Press [(http://www.freepress.net/index.php)] to learn more about this.
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/24/1349205