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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] Connect the dots: Last month, Republicans and (leaving) CPB Chairman Kenneth Y. Tomlinson made news recently with his contention that public broadcasting is too liberal and some Republicans added that PBS was unfairly reporting the Bush administration in a negative light. -A few weeks later, the House of Representatives announced they would cut PBS's funding by 100 million (25% of their government given budget) -effectivly shutting them down or at least curtailing many of their programmes to what could be bought from private contributions and donations. -Thursday, the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting named former Republican Committee co-Chairman Patricia de Stacy Harrison to work as its top administrator. Now the GOP has one of their own running PBS. -Friday the House announced that it [i]won't[/i] cut Public Broadcasting Funds after a "carefully considered" debate and vote. Coincidence, I'm sure. I would not count on Sesame Street teaching tolerance of gays or any more indepth expose from [i]Frontline[/i] on Bush administration's failings in the future. [QUOTE][b]"Big Bird and his friends can fly on their own," said Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla. PBS still might end up with less money than in its current budget. The legislation would eliminate $23 million for the Ready to Learn program, which subsidizes children's educational programming and distributes learning materials. [/QUOTE][/b] Of course, this is the same HOuse that plans on reducing the No Child Left Behind Program by 806 million- more than 3%. Fuck it: kids can "fly on their own" too, I guess. :rolleyes: [/QB][/QUOTE]
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