Tom Betz wrote:

Offbreed wrote in news:W56dneUGYNZFoEHcRVn-
:


NPR may have had a good scare thrown in it as a result of attempts to
cut off federal dollars and Bush II being elected,


Please de-fund the CPB! It was invented by Spiro Agnew as a means of
keeping the Presidential thumb on public broadcasters. I'm sick and
tired of National Pentagon Radio and the Pentagon Broadcast System
consistently presenting the pro-war Republican party line as gospel

Excellent ironic humor!

because some of the people running them are deathly afraid of losing the
pittance they now suck from the public teat.

(shrug) That makes them different, how?

The best thing that could possibly happen to NPR and PBS is the
dissolution of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Of course, then
we'd have to deal with their funding from international corporations,
which exert a similar influence... but it would be a start, anyway.


If you want freedom on the airwaves, push for a return to the rules that
allowed the micro powered local stations, like the college and high
school stations.

Those rules were changed to allow the CPUSA backed CPB/NPR/PBS to gain
centralized control of the alternative news channels. Control through
NEA was not enough.


Of course, the internet is making that a moot questions. So long as
Hillary does not get her way.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,10230,00.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1998/02/22/BUSINESS904.dtl

So many "liberals" are like teenage rebels. They talk about freedom, but
mean they want freedom to do what they want, and that means slavery for
everyone else.