[lit-ideas] Re: NPR/PBS
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:33:06 -0700
Paul Stone wrote:
You know that email petition that keeps circulating about how Congress
is slashing funding for NPR and PBS? Well, now it's actually true.
(Really. Check at the bottom if you don't believe me.)
What was it before? Not-true?
Various appeals via e-mail ('pass it on') to save PBS, the NEA, etc.,
began circulating in 1995. Until last week, they were all well-meaning
hoaxes, so to speak. However, even if at the time, these rumors were
baseless, 'Sometimes,' as Hume said, 'Chicken Little is right.'
See http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/nea.asp
Robert Paul
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