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NPR and PBS targets?

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jeffdfw

Did anyone bother to read Obama's deficit reduction commission's ambitious draft proposal?

I found item #32 to be interesting...


32. Cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s primary job is to fund NPR and its member stations (and other public radio stations) and PBS and its member stations. The current CPB funding level is the highest it has ever been. This option would eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, saving just under $500 million in 2015.
 
The McDonalds fortune heir gave a huge gift to NPR around the turn of the century, which allowed a lot of the improvements in recent years. I read somewhere CPB funding is only about 2% of NPR station budgets.
 
Is this any surprise? It is the conservatives' wet dream. I expect it to be a Top Ten legislative item with the next Congress. Glenn Beck just spent the last two days repeatedly claiming George Soros bought NPR for a paltry donation of $1.8 million.
 
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