secure.freepress.net — The Bush administration has slashed the proposed public broadcasting budget by 56% -- putting at risk vital news, educational & cultural programming that millions of Americans say they prefer to commercial media. The Senate, who's going to vote tomorrow, must stand with the millions of Americans who have acted in the past against such drastic cuts.
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Closed AccountJun 23, 2008
Government run media (aka public broadcasting) is not something that we should be looking for in a free state. Its like having fox news report on News Corp, there's going to be a large bias. I do like the programming though. The government providing subsidies to any industry is wrong. CSPAN is able to exist without government help and arguably provides better insight in the govt. than PBS does. There is no free lunch in this world. Why should someone who doesn't use PBS have to pay for it? If you like PBS so much get out your checkbook and donate as much as you can so that they don't need govt. money.
Closed AccountJun 24, 2008
Good try, but you're wrong. Digg is not free, nor is it a non-profit company. Advertisers pay for it, just like television or radio.So no, I don't get the idea.
sjm20kJun 24, 2008
you realize you often come off sounding exactly like those people you claim to "hate" (terrorists). a zealot by any other name.
cilantro33309Jun 27, 2008
I'm sure you don't know how right you are. Dubya is exactly that immature, and probably short-sighted enough (putting it nicely) to believe he has had a great presidency. The Frontline documentary I am sure he sees as all lies. After all, it is hard to see that forest.
jamesfactionJun 30, 2008
Digg is not all "no big government". What the hell is with this obsession with the size of government anyway? That all started with Reagan didn't it?The most important thing is that it should be government of the people, for the people, by the people.
jamesfactionJun 30, 2008
PBS left wing? HAHAHAHAHAhahahahaha.
jamesfactionJun 30, 2008
Well said. There appears to be enough fools on here to dig you down though. I thought digg readers were able to think for themselves, perhaps I was wrong."All the truth money can buy" is hardly a great motto or slogan is it? Yet that seems to be the byline for the US govt, the dominant US newsmedia, not to mention an awful lot of people on digg.Reality needs to be checked.
jamesfactionJun 30, 2008
BBC is only barely less biased than most of the other major media outlets out there. There is still much that they gloss over or ignore for the benefit of multinationals et al.
jeffrey19Jul 7, 2008
I suspect it is too common for the public to give up or not even know they are being duped: Veni, Vidi, Victus Sum.