[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: FAIR Calls for De-Funding CPB

How about that, I started to put together something to post to this
list on this very topic, before I went on vacation - I still might,
but these guys have said it so much better.

Next time I get one of those annoying "save Public Broadcasting"
petition e-mails, I'll reply to everybody on the list by saying "I
agree. Save Public Broadcasting from the CPB, from the government and
from itself. And this is how to do it!"

The entire article can be read at:

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2671

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From: FAIR <fair@fair.org>
Date: Oct 4, 2005 7:53 AM
Subject: FAIR Calls for De-Funding CPB
To: matt.mattlove1@gmail.com

Press Release

FAIR Calls for De-Funding CPB
How to REALLY save PBS: Replace corrupt board with independent trust

10/3/05

As Republican activist Cheryl Halpern takes the helm of the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Republicans in Congress call
for CPB funding cuts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public
broadcasting's defenders look ahead once again to a fight to "save
PBS."

But the broader issues remain overlooked: Is public broadcasting
delivering on its promise of offering a true alternative to commercial
broadcasting? Does the CPB really, as its mission statement proclaims,
"encourage the development of programming that involves creative risks
and that addresses the needs of unserved and underserved audiences,
particularly children and minorities"?

In the October issue of Extra!, FAIR declares that the honest answer
to these questions is no. It's time to stop trying to save the CPB
from budget cuts and corrupt leadership; we need to cut the purse
strings and develop new, independent funding mechanisms for public
broadcasting.

The CPB has become a tool used by congressional conservatives to
restrict programming within narrow political limits. With each
successive attack from the right, public broadcasting becomes
weakened, as programmers become more skittish and public TV's habit of
survival through capitulation becomes more ingrained.

"While a desire to protect the CPB from right-wing attackers is
understandable, it's ultimately doomed to failure," said Steve
Rendall, co-author with Peter Hart of FAIR's analysis, Time to Unplug
the CPB. "We need to stop fighting to save the CPB and start fighting
to save the principle of public broadcasting itself."

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