Last year the Bush admin cut NPR and PBS by $100,000,000.

CBP is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Bush wants to cut that 13%. I think the educational value of public broadcasting is important for our democracy. We have to get our priorities in order in the USA. Sign the petition to stop this budget cut.

Sent my check in. I love NPR!

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Fortunatus sum! Pila mea de gramine horrido modo in pratum lene recta volvit!

Cheers Kengle Sign the petition too? Let congress know this is out of the question.

Dump PBS! If they cant survive then they go out of business.PBS is a left winged liberal network instead.Its fools cant accept MR Rogers Neighborhood on Sesame Street isnt the real world.

How else will he fund his war of aggression? Money has to come from somewhere, and he sure as hell won't pay for his war.

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A federal judge ruled today that graphic pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America's image.

Someone should tell them that bad press can be prevented by not abusing prisoners in the first place. Censorship is only needed to preserve the good reputation of those who have tortured and/or murdered already.

As long as they’ve been on the air and still can’t secure sponsors should tell you something.
If they could get through one penguin or walrus doctoredmentary without condemning civilized man or America, I myself would send them a check.

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Only a liberal would know how hard it is to get a nicotine patch to stick to a monkey.

i dontate only during the drives for PBS screw NPR its too politicised now.

Samantha .. good morning.

Just so you know, the President of the United States sends Congress a detailed proposal for the next fiscal year. At that point, Congress develops its resolutions and those resolutions go the House and Senate floors where they can be amended. Any differences between the two versions are rectified by the conference committee and sent back for a vote;

I like NPR and listen to it when I get the opportunity; however, this year, while Bush may propose the cuts, it is up to the Democrat majority to change this proposal.

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"I miss the days when they made toys that could kill a kid."
- Jerry Seinfeld

I agree with Rak.
PBS is worth preserving, not everything that cannot survive commercially should end.
However NPR has no more or less value than any other commercial media news outlet..therefore it does not deserve public funding.

I've always liked PBS, they have some good quality programming like NOVA, Frontline & NOW. Not to mention the amount of children programming that I'm sure all of us grew up on. Mostly though they don't skimp on quality, I mean most commerical channels that are similar are often filled with bias and for the most part have skewed their programming to entertain. Not that PBS is perfect, but its value is apparent in a world of 200 hundred channels of nothing.

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I don't pretend to know everything, educate me, and I'll try to educate you. Shouting matches and insults aren't going to convince me.

Well, if you are going to support the "Fairness Doctrine", you should be hollering for Limbaugh to receive as much funding as NPR being as he has more listeners. Equal time, equal support.

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Precisely.
NPR is nothing more or less that another radio station...it does not do anything special for the public outside what any other station does.

PBS is different, it does many things on a local level, and I am sure just like our PBS station, it is many times the only place where the community has a voice.

It pains me when people such as yourself paint truthful programming as "left winged." I suppose you also have problems with the History, and Discovery Channels as well.

PBS is the Public Broadcasting System, to be funded by the PUBLIC. That's you and me. It provides a valued service to our society that is unrivaled in the private sector.

What have you got against Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street?

I'm having difficulty understanding your english, maybe you should have been watching more PBS when you were a growing up.

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"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."

"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."

-Thomas Jefferson

NPR was more informative with raw news before the Bush Administration bastardized it. In it's current form it's news has been sterilized to the point of uninformative. But NPR still has great programming like Car Talk, All Things Considered, All Songs Considered, Fresh Air, and Talk of the Nation. I wouldn't throw NPR under the bus, just because the Bush Administration screwed with it's news segments.

I shudder the thought of living in America without PBS and NPR.

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"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."

"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."

-Thomas Jefferson

I would rather he take all the money away from NPR and give it to PBS.