{"id":73,"date":"2005-06-10T21:02:24","date_gmt":"2005-06-11T04:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2005-06-10T21:02:24","modified_gmt":"2005-06-11T04:02:24","slug":"public-broadcasting-targeted-by-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Public Broadcasting Targeted By House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/09\/AR2005060902283.html\">*this*<\/a> pisses me off.<\/p>\n<p>From the *Washington Post*, 6\/10\/05:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Panel Seeks to End CPB&#8217;s Funding Within 2 Years<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A House subcommittee voted yesterday to sharply reduce the federal government&#8217;s financial support for public broadcasting, including eliminating taxpayer funds that help underwrite such popular children&#8217;s educational programs as &#8220;Sesame Street,&#8221; &#8220;Reading Rainbow,&#8221; &#8220;Arthur&#8221; and &#8220;Postcards From Buster.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn addition, the subcommittee acted to eliminate within two years all federal money for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting &#8212; which passes federal funds to public broadcasters &#8212; starting with a 25 percent reduction in CPB&#8217;s budget for next year, from $400 million to $300 million.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like all of Public Television.  I could do without the endlessly repeated Wayne Dyer specials and the Lawrence Welk reruns. Watching Charlie Rose devolve  into a corporate lapdog and Hollywood sycophant is disheartening. And while *Boobah* can be bizarrely fascinating, it&#8217;s also deeply disturbing on some primordial, lizard-brain level.<\/p>\n<p>However, *The Newshour*, *Washington Week*, *Now*, and *Frontline* are among the last sources of honest news reportage in America.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans want to kill them.  Fast.  Before another election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Gosh, what a surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, *this* pisses me off. From the *Washington Post*, 6\/10\/05: Panel Seeks to End CPB&#8217;s Funding Within 2 Years A House subcommittee voted yesterday to sharply reduce the federal government&#8217;s financial support for public broadcasting, including eliminating taxpayer funds that help underwrite such popular children&#8217;s educational programs as &#8220;Sesame Street,&#8221; &#8220;Reading Rainbow,&#8221; &#8220;Arthur&#8221; and &#8220;Postcards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}