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Rumors Of WABE's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Early in the campaign and leading up to the campaign, WABE ran some announcements facing the situation head on: (paraphrased) "Since there is talk that some may succeed in terminating Federal Support some time in the future, We are challenging our listeners to step up and provide an extra amount of funding... just in case."

I think they took an 'adult' attitude toward the situation, and the listening audience responded in an adult attitude. Isn't it great! Once in a while we get to see civilization at it's best at work.
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
Early in the campaign and leading up to the campaign, WABE ran some announcements facing the situation head on: (paraphrased) "Since there is talk that some may succeed in terminating Federal Support some time in the future, We are challenging our listeners to step up and provide an extra amount of funding... just in case."

I think they took an 'adult' attitude toward the situation, and the listening audience responded in an adult attitude. Isn't it great! Once in a while we get to see civilization at it's best at work.
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Good on them! NOW is the time to pull the plug on taxpayer funding. WABE has show it's resilient & doesn't need the funding at all. They're just confirming what that Schiller dude said on hidden camera anyway, right?

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upstate29651 said:
Good on them! NOW is the time to pull the plug on taxpayer funding. WABE has show it's resilient & doesn't need the funding at all. They're just confirming what that Schiller dude said on hidden camera anyway, right?
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You may be trying to extend some conclusion to cover territory not in it's trajectory.

Looking at it from the outside, I have to assume that WABE has assembled management and staff that exceeds the average in the public broadcasting family.

Looking at it from being inside the edge of the market, Atlanta is one hell of a market that many public broadcasters can only dream about.

It is real easy for a Conservative Congressman to look at WABE and say: See, Public Radio doesn't need Federal money. We had a thread going recently about a public broadcaster in the "coal patch" of Eastern Kentucky. I've been there... and "that ain't Atlanta style economy".

Wisconsin has been in the news lately. If you look at Madison and Milwaukee it is easy to lean back in your congressional chair and declare: See, public radio doesn't need any Federal money. But then take a look at what in Wisconsin I gather they call "The Northwoods", or look at the upper peninsula of Michigan and to pull the plug on Federal money may mean pulling the plug on public broadcasting there.

Matt Pakrer has posted a thread indicating that ALL FEDERAL MONEY going to CPB (that would be TV plus Radio) is 0.00014% of the Federal Budget. I have tracked down the numbers yet to verify them to my satisfaction, and to separate the radio from the TV. My guess is that support of NPR and grants to local stations on the radio side then has to be less than 0.00003% of the total Federal Budget. It looks to me like a lot of people including some Congressmen have their "panties in a bunch" over a non starter. AT the end of every day, military kitchens around the world probably pour cold coffee down the drain worth more than what NPR burns through. Federal offices probably trash unused envelopes where logos have been changed worth more than the entire NPR cost to the Federal Treasury.
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
Matt Pakrer has posted a thread indicating that ALL FEDERAL MONEY going to CPB (that would be TV plus Radio) is 0.00014% of the Federal Budget. I have tracked down the numbers yet to verify them to my satisfaction, and to separate the radio from the TV. My guess is that support of NPR and grants to local stations on the radio side then has to be less than 0.00003% of the total Federal Budget. It looks to me like a lot of people including some Congressmen have their "panties in a bunch" over a non starter. AT the end of every day, military kitchens around the world probably pour cold coffee down the drain worth more than what NPR burns through. Federal offices probably trash unused envelopes where logos have been changed worth more than the entire NPR cost to the Federal Treasury.
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Matt Parker is a partisan hack & I don't trust anything that comes out of his mouth (or fingers).

With that said, if .000003% of the fed budget can be cut, then for God's sake, let's do it! The cuts must start somewhere & no cut is too small. To say or imply that we need to look elsewhere for cuts is part & parcel of the problem we, as a nation, face. Cuts need to be made across the board. Period.

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Does WRFG get federal money?
 
upstate29651 said:
Matt Parker is a partisan hack & I don't trust anything that comes out of his mouth (or fingers).
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Yawn!

EVERYBODY is a partisan hack. How do we know who we can trust and who we can't? Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

upstate29651 said:
With that said, if .000003% of the fed budget can be cut, then for God's sake, let's do it! The cuts must start somewhere & no cut is too small. To say or imply that we need to look elsewhere for cuts is part & parcel of the problem we, as a nation, face. Cuts need to be made across the board. Period.
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Followed to it's logical end and conclusion, I assume you are ready to disband government. All cuts are good. Let's just cut until there is nothing left. There is absolutely NOTHING that government does that is good, so abolish it.... and let's all live happily ever after.

Self-government is a wonderful idea and concept. To quote the old cliche: "It is the WORST form of government..... except for all the others."

Self-government is not YOU yelling louder than the rest of us, thus WE have to shut up. Self-government involves the sausage-grinder process where we let concepts and proposals bump up against each other until we can all make a judgment as to what is worthy and what is lacking in value. In my post I think I indicated that I had not verified whether Matt had quoted valid information. A few decades ago, through the sausage-grinder process our system came to the decision that we WOULD put government money into supporting public broadcasting. Maybe the time has come to reduced that support. Maybe the time has come to eliminate that support. Maybe the time has come to redirect some of that support. The place of public broadcasting within our civilization does not ride on whether Matt is a partisan hack or world's greatest font of valid information.

Somebody has started a thread saying that WABE, a public broadcasting station serving Atlanta, GA is not about to fade into the dust... even if Federal funding goes away day after tomorrow. Three cheers for WABE.
 
Fair enough GRC. We're not going to agree on this. I maintain that cuts need to be made across ALL gov't departments, no matter how big or small.

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As GRC has demonstrated, the push to de-fund stations like WABE has nothing to do with reducing the national debt. (It wouldn't.) It has everything to do with silencing (or most likely, partisan intimidation of) media that one side of the political aisle doesn't like or choose to partake of.
 
Nate Wesley said:
As GRC has demonstrated, the push to de-fund stations like WABE has nothing to do with reducing the national debt. (It wouldn't.) It has everything to do with silencing (or most likely, partisan intimidation of) media that one side of the political aisle doesn't like or choose to partake of.
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Birds of a feather miss the point together....


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upstate29651 said:
Birds of a feather miss the point together....
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I got your point. I don't have much of a use for it.
 
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