Are NPR and PBS really in danger?

[KamaAina]

Or is the following just another one of those things that goes around the 'Net?

SAVE NPR
> >
> > On NPR's Morning Edition recently, Nina Tottenberg (sic) said that if the
> > Supreme
> > Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public
> > Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public
> > Broadcasting
> > System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the Arts are facing major cutbacks in
> > funding.
> > NPR currently costs each taxpayer $1.12 a year. In spite of the
> > efforts of
> > each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services,
> > some
> > government officials believe that the funding currently going to these
> > programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen
> > as
> > not worthwhile. The only way that our representatives can be aware of
> > the
> > base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by
> > making
> > our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to
> > friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be
> > forwarded
> > to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This
> > petition
> > is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so
> > that
> > funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA.

The Supreme Court? What have they got to do with the budget? makes me wonder...

[HippieCowgirl]

1. www.snopes.com

It's about legislation that happened in 1998. False alarm.

[intheflow]

2. They are in danger: of going completely RW on us.

Too much corporate money involved in PBS these days. I haven't heard word one about the Cnyers congressional forum. That's a big flashing warning system to me that they've drunk the koolaid.

[KamaAina]

3. Mahalo (thank you)

The buck, er, chain letter stops here.

[catbert836]

4. Could be, but I hope not.

[Vanje]

5. Yes. But not from that dumb chain letter

That email chain letter has been circulating since ~2000. Ignore it.

NPR and PBS have taken a sharp turn to the right, pretending to be "fair and balanced".

[bobweaver]

6. But Joan Kroc gave NPR $200 million in her will - what happened to that?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1494600

[madrchsod]

9. walmart has more money

the walton family has over 100 billion dollars and counting..they are prime sponsors of NPR

[SoCalDem]

7. Less "in danger" than Irrelevant.. They have been infiltrated by righties

so "lefties" don't bother to support them or tune in much. They have been under assault for years by the rightwing congress, and have to beg for every penny and apologize profusely for every perceived "error"..they are teethless kittens, hanging on by their claws.. Just to be "safe", though, the rightwinders have pretty much changed their philosophy..(just in case congress cannot kill them entirely).. The goal is to neutralize them..The plan has succeeded.:(

[Zero Gravitas]

8. Of course they are

Anything that smacks of reason & thoughtfulness instead of reactionary dogma is under threat.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. No more $$ for them unless they straighten out and fly left

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