House Vote Today on PBS/NPR Cuts
For those who are following the unfolding events concerning the CPB funding cuts as closely as I am, with my internship at RIPBS scheduled to start mid-July...
I got this e-mail today from FreePress.net:
The House is scheduled to vote today on drastic funding cuts for PBS, NPR and other public media. The cuts are part of the partisan campaign to both defang and defund public broadcasting.
Your calls and letters to Congress are making a difference. We need your help now to support two amendments that would put the money back IN public broadcasting while taking the politics OUT of the funding process.
Call your representative now to save public broadcasting.
Kenneth Tomlinson, chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is engaged in a deliberate campaign to bully programmers to produce shows that echo the White House line. His cronies in Congress are slashing funding for the news, children's and cultural programming Americans trust.
Reps. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) and Diane Watson (D-Calif.) have introduced an amendment that would block Tomlinson from meddling in noncommercial programming. And Reps. David Obey (D-Wis.), Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) and James Leach (R-Iowa) have offered an amendment that would restore $100 million in funding stripped out by the Appropriations Committee.
Call now and urge your representative to support both amendments.
In the past two weeks, millions of Americans have spoken out against efforts to gag and starve public broadcasting. You can help us further by forwarding this e-mail and telling five friends to join the campaign.
Together, we can put the public back in public broadcasting and wrest control of our media from the hands of Washington politicians and partisans.
Onward,
Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
Free Press
www.freepress.net
P.S. To learn more about the Free Press campaign to save public broadcasting, visit www.freepress.net/publicbroadcasting.
I got this e-mail today from FreePress.net:
The House is scheduled to vote today on drastic funding cuts for PBS, NPR and other public media. The cuts are part of the partisan campaign to both defang and defund public broadcasting.
Your calls and letters to Congress are making a difference. We need your help now to support two amendments that would put the money back IN public broadcasting while taking the politics OUT of the funding process.
Call your representative now to save public broadcasting.
Kenneth Tomlinson, chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is engaged in a deliberate campaign to bully programmers to produce shows that echo the White House line. His cronies in Congress are slashing funding for the news, children's and cultural programming Americans trust.
Reps. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) and Diane Watson (D-Calif.) have introduced an amendment that would block Tomlinson from meddling in noncommercial programming. And Reps. David Obey (D-Wis.), Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) and James Leach (R-Iowa) have offered an amendment that would restore $100 million in funding stripped out by the Appropriations Committee.
Call now and urge your representative to support both amendments.
In the past two weeks, millions of Americans have spoken out against efforts to gag and starve public broadcasting. You can help us further by forwarding this e-mail and telling five friends to join the campaign.
Together, we can put the public back in public broadcasting and wrest control of our media from the hands of Washington politicians and partisans.
Onward,
Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
Free Press
www.freepress.net
P.S. To learn more about the Free Press campaign to save public broadcasting, visit www.freepress.net/publicbroadcasting.
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