MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
When presidents of government-funded broadcasting are making more than the president of the United States, it's time to get the government out of public broadcasting.
While executives at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) are raking in massive salaries, the organizations are participating in an aggressive lobbying effort to prevent Congress from saving hundreds of millions of dollars each year by cutting their subsidies. The so-called commercial free public airwaves have been filled with pleas for taxpayer cash. The Association of Public Television Stations has hired lobbyists to fight the cuts. Hundreds of taxpayer-supported TV, radio and Web outlets have partnered with an advocacy campaign to facilitate emails and phone calls to Capitol Hill for the purpose of telling members of Congress, "Public broadcasting funding is too important to eliminate!"
[OpEd by Sen Jim DeMint (R) South Carolina]
Comments
Point of semantics for Sen. DeMint: it won't be public broadcasting if it goes private. Without that editorial correction, your op-ed reads a bit too much like "tell the governmnet to keep its hands off my Medicare." Why are you so afraid to say it loud and proud and clear that you want to abolish public broadcasting? Why the mincing of the words?
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 5:26pm