I think public broadcasting gets about 5% of its funding from the government.
On Dec 21, 2010, at 11:15 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 8:48 PM Subject: [rollei_list] OT: Public Broadcasting. A Rant At 10:22 PM 12/21/2010, John Jensen wrote:It was Nina Totenberg of NPR who said words of the current Zeitgeist:"And I was at - forgive the expression - a Christmas ps party at the Department of Justice,.........."Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.There is no possible defense for taxpayer funds being sent to support the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Period . End game and, pray, shut the door so I can get back to writing my novel.Thats a good way to just shut up any counter argument, just define it as being impossible. In fact, I think there are very good justification for using public funds for public service matters including niche broadcasting and broadcasting which is not controlled by commercial interests which may find it useful to propagandize the public. In fact, very little tax money goes to the CPB or NPR, nearly all of the funding comes from private sources. I think that has corrupted the purposes of what was intended to be an independant operation to the point where it is unrecognizable. I know you are a Libertarian of some sort. Those folks do not want _any_ government except perhaps, to fight wars. OK lets not have _any_ government, no enforcement of anything so no rules. No taxes, let those who can afford it have streets and police and fire departments (actually so called volunteer fire departments are already in this catagory, if you can't afford to join your house is allowed to burn down). I don't think you would like to live in the resulting world. I am just about fed up with those who want a totally unregulated society and would allow capitalism to be reduced to pure theft by those powerful enough to get away with it. Public broadcasting does not do a good job but is far better than the commercial broadcasters who have become pure propaganda sources.-- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx- Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
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