I know many of you have justified issues with public broadcasting [View All]

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But four bills introduced in the House want to defund it completely, leaving all media in the hands of private corporations. It's politics; the $425 million allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting per year -- which primarily funds individual stations, not NPR and PBS -- is the equivalent to what it takes to pay for ten feet of an aircraft carrier. The cost of the AIG bailout could have funded public broadcasting for 155 years. This is barely a blip in the federal budget and the calls for defunding come from the GOP which has been trying to eliminate public broadcasting for years.

I ask you to please put your issues with public broadcasting aside during this fight and show your support for public broadcasting by visiting this site: www.170MillionAmericans.org

In the interest of full disclosure, I am the General Manager of a public radio station. But there is much more at stake here than a loss of our CPB grant.

Thanks.