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Virginia Gov cuts funding for public broadcasting

We are going to be reading many more stories like this from state after state, and at the Washington level as well.

The business of operating a scheme of "self-government" gets to be messy at times. When you have a group of friends, coworkers or others gathered around you and you want to generate some interesting conversation, play this game: "I YOU were governor or if YOU were president, what changes in budget would you make to get things in better long-term financial condition?"

Those who oppose government money going into public broadcasting have their "elevator speech" prepared and are ready to deliver it anytime, anyplace.

Are supporters of public broadcasting equally as well prepared with their own story?
 
Your subject line says he cut the funding, but the quote says he just proposed it. Two different things.

I think when this newbie governor realizes his state subsidy makes it possible for poor kids to watch Sesame Street, he will change his tune. $4 million is the bottled water budget at the state house. This proposal will die very quickly.
 
Once again, a politician makes a lot of noise about cutting money from public radio so the tea baggers won't notice all the pork and set asides he's letting go through.

We are talking about $4 million over two years - spread across how many different radio and television operations? Virginia does not have a unified public radio network like some other states. It sounds like it doesn't add up to much for any given station. What is this money supposed to be used for? The story quotes somebody from the public broadcasting community as saying it's used to teach children in schools? How does that work? Are they doing classroom programming down there?
 
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