cnn.com— "The House on Wednesday evening overwhelmingly rejected President Bush's plan to eliminate the $420 million federal subsidy for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."
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I love PBS. I grew up watching PBS. I still watch PBS, as Frontline and NOVA are both very good programs. Schools need PBS, as it provides a lot of educational materials that may be watched in class. A lot of us around here grew up watching PBS. I'm sure that the children of the people here will most likely watch PBS when they're little too. Because PBS doesn't run ads, they NEED donations and government funding to stay around.BTW: Didn't Newt Gingrich already try doing this?
It's clear that you're mistaking "balance" for lack of bias.Presenting two sides is all well and good, unless one side lies, contorts, and spins so much that (with the support of the network heads) they make things like creationism sounds like they're on par with evolution. That, in a nutshell, is FoxNews.FoxNews these days is like 24 hours of "but, but, Clinton!". I suppose that's "balance", but it's certainly not free of bias.
The amount doesn't make it okay. Theft is theft is theft. If I steal $1,000 from you and donate it to PBS, are you okay with that? I hope I'm not confusing you with logic.
Take your illiteracy back to yours dips**t. I said SHILL, not shrill, the view of PBS radio hosts is overwhelmingly leftist, I know, I listen to it constantly as it's the only radio I can pick up in the office.
Oh my god, this s**t makes me so incredibly ANGRY. I'm so glad it was met with a resounding "no." In other news, small and medium-sized publications like The Nation are about to start paying out the ass for postage, unlike the major magazines.
This is one of the very few things Bush is right about. A free, transparent government should not have its own press / media... If only something could be done to all the bribes and kickbacks the rest of the mainstream media (especially Fox News) is getting...
Says who? Frontline and Moyer's junk is so lopsided to the left, day in and day out, that it's not even worth listening to them. The day that Frontline or Moyer actually criticize the Democrat Party and expose a scandal there, or, during a Democrat administration in the WhiteHouse, turn around and show a flawed foreign policy or other scandal with a fair light -- that's the day I'll actually listen. It's all about balance, and Frontline and Moyer don't have it.PBS is mostly entertainment, anyway, and not actual personal development. Trust me. I've watched about 8 hours straight of it at times, with nothing else to do while football is on, and my mind was mush. I can't tell you a sufficient improvement in my personal development from it. Therefore, why should the Federal Government pay a humongous bill to a TV broadcast station, then cut it various other breaks, only to entertain people and make them only see news in a lopsided way? Is that the Federal Government's job? Yeah, if you live in a dictatorship, communist, Communist, or socialist country. What's PBS to do next, have a funding drive where you get a communist beret for your matching gift contribution?About the only thing I can stand on that channel is NOVA, but then again, it relies on much of its stuff from NASA. NASA is another monstrosity that needs to be shut down for wasteful spending, ridiculous, flawed, costly designs (the space shuttle), and for not returning much back to us for what money we put into it.Next, I'd go after the Federal Department of Education. It gets the axe too. Let the states handle that.And back to PBS, didn't old lady Kroc (McDonald's Restaurants) kick up and leave like several billion dollars to PBS and NPR? Or, is it already used up and squandered away? If it's used up, I can guarantee you that there's some fat cat Democrat crony relocated in Fiji, retired, living it up on that old lady's funds.And how much do you think an exiting CEO of PBS gets to take in their golden parachute? How much do you think the sign-on bonus is for the top brass there? How much is severance pay there for anyone with Chief in their title or their direct managers? I bet you easily that their severance pay is way higher than the rest of the industry.
quadoJul 20, 2007
I love PBS. I grew up watching PBS. I still watch PBS, as Frontline and NOVA are both very good programs. Schools need PBS, as it provides a lot of educational materials that may be watched in class. A lot of us around here grew up watching PBS. I'm sure that the children of the people here will most likely watch PBS when they're little too. Because PBS doesn't run ads, they NEED donations and government funding to stay around.BTW: Didn't Newt Gingrich already try doing this?
stepnw1fJul 20, 2007
tyranny=censorship
macenvyJul 20, 2007
It's clear that you're mistaking "balance" for lack of bias.Presenting two sides is all well and good, unless one side lies, contorts, and spins so much that (with the support of the network heads) they make things like creationism sounds like they're on par with evolution. That, in a nutshell, is FoxNews.FoxNews these days is like 24 hours of "but, but, Clinton!". I suppose that's "balance", but it's certainly not free of bias.
bratpack8Jul 21, 2007
The amount doesn't make it okay. Theft is theft is theft. If I steal $1,000 from you and donate it to PBS, are you okay with that? I hope I'm not confusing you with logic.
bratpack8Jul 21, 2007
No, actually I'm not as I can't stand the current administration. But to call NPR and PBS unbiased is bordering on inane.
spuy767Jul 21, 2007
Take your illiteracy back to yours dips**t. I said SHILL, not shrill, the view of PBS radio hosts is overwhelmingly leftist, I know, I listen to it constantly as it's the only radio I can pick up in the office.
chipetteJul 21, 2007
Oh my god, this s**t makes me so incredibly ANGRY. I'm so glad it was met with a resounding "no." In other news, small and medium-sized publications like The Nation are about to start paying out the ass for postage, unlike the major magazines.
alexlibmanJul 21, 2007
This is one of the very few things Bush is right about. A free, transparent government should not have its own press / media... If only something could be done to all the bribes and kickbacks the rest of the mainstream media (especially Fox News) is getting...
jake2qJul 23, 2007
Bush is a f**king idiot
supermikediggDec 21, 2007
Says who? Frontline and Moyer's junk is so lopsided to the left, day in and day out, that it's not even worth listening to them. The day that Frontline or Moyer actually criticize the Democrat Party and expose a scandal there, or, during a Democrat administration in the WhiteHouse, turn around and show a flawed foreign policy or other scandal with a fair light -- that's the day I'll actually listen. It's all about balance, and Frontline and Moyer don't have it.PBS is mostly entertainment, anyway, and not actual personal development. Trust me. I've watched about 8 hours straight of it at times, with nothing else to do while football is on, and my mind was mush. I can't tell you a sufficient improvement in my personal development from it. Therefore, why should the Federal Government pay a humongous bill to a TV broadcast station, then cut it various other breaks, only to entertain people and make them only see news in a lopsided way? Is that the Federal Government's job? Yeah, if you live in a dictatorship, communist, Communist, or socialist country. What's PBS to do next, have a funding drive where you get a communist beret for your matching gift contribution?About the only thing I can stand on that channel is NOVA, but then again, it relies on much of its stuff from NASA. NASA is another monstrosity that needs to be shut down for wasteful spending, ridiculous, flawed, costly designs (the space shuttle), and for not returning much back to us for what money we put into it.Next, I'd go after the Federal Department of Education. It gets the axe too. Let the states handle that.And back to PBS, didn't old lady Kroc (McDonald's Restaurants) kick up and leave like several billion dollars to PBS and NPR? Or, is it already used up and squandered away? If it's used up, I can guarantee you that there's some fat cat Democrat crony relocated in Fiji, retired, living it up on that old lady's funds.And how much do you think an exiting CEO of PBS gets to take in their golden parachute? How much do you think the sign-on bonus is for the top brass there? How much is severance pay there for anyone with Chief in their title or their direct managers? I bet you easily that their severance pay is way higher than the rest of the industry.