Anyone have sources on GOP attemps to kill NPR/Public Broadcasting?

[wyldwolf]

Thanks!

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Here are two to get you started

The Ballad of Barbara Bradley Hagerty
http://betterangels.blogspot.com/2004/05/ballad-of-barbara-bradley-hagerty.html

When NPR Fails You, Who You Gonna' Call? Not the Ombudsman
http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/2004/11/when-npr-fails-you-who-you-gonna-call.html

[madfloridian]

2. Here is a link about the CPB. Corporation for Public Broadcasting

http://ga3.org/publictelevision/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=2858130

CPB Reauthorization Bill Passes Senate Committee for the First Time Since 1992
Procedural Snafu Delays Amendment to Further Improve the Bill

There is not much at this site, but this is the group that may be on the look-out for proper programming at NPR/PBS.

If you do a search on that, it leads to a senate committee which has questionable goals. I can't find the rest of my research right now.

[pocoloco]

3. No links except my feeble memory.

The cuts have been going on for a long time, the first I remember in the late 60's or early 70's finally forcing the yearly "festivals" and accepting corporate funding and it's pitfalls to raise enough money to operate.

As an afterthought PBS was very liberal back then with quality programing!

[blindpig]

4. why bother?

it's part of the Mighty Wurlitzer now. I miss the NPR that used to be.

[wyldwolf]

7. I have a republican friend passing around an e-mail...

..asking people to support NPR and prevent congress from defunding it.

She is clueless that the GOP mainly has been the ones to defund it.

[GreenArrow]

5. no need to kill it when it's been co-opted

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[alfredo]

6. Nixon and Adolph Coors wanted to take it over.

They referred to it a "pinko."