Overlooked: NewsHour's Money Problems »

Posted By Dakota 1 year, 1 month ago in News

Nightly PBS show The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer may be popular with Propeller Scout Corey Spring, but a New York Times story about the show's funding difficulties wasn't a hit with users.

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    TimALoftis1 year, 1 month ago

    Thanks Dakota and Propeller for bringing this story back to our attention. Like Corey, I am a big fan of the News Hour. Without question it is Journalism at its best. When I read the original submission of this story on Propeller.com it immediately propelled me to reach for my checkbook in a small attempt to help. I only wish I had the resources of the Archer Daniels Midland Group.

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      nostalgia1 year, 1 month ago

      Anyone know exactly when Archer Daniels Midland withdrew their support?

      NewsHour ran a segment on biofuels as being partially responsible for the growing international food crisis

      Archer Daniels Midland is the country's leading producer of ethanol

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        jumpmaster1 year, 1 month ago

        ".....because PBS isn't really popular (at least in ratings) with the general public."

        Then why is the public required to fund it?

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        Grrr1 year, 1 month ago

        But WHY MUSIC?

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        fwoccoit1 year, 1 month ago

        The landscape is changing indeed

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          antibrainwasher1 year, 1 month ago

          PBS's director is the former chair of the Republican National Convention. His orders are to kill PBS quietly, make it look like a suicide.

          The same orders that Shotgun Dick gave to all the republican directors he appointed, FEMA, FDA, EPA, on and on.

          They came to power vowing to destroy government, to shrink and kill government. They have indeed destroyed the government, on the instructions of the billionaires who got the tax cuts.

          Add to this, the destruction of the news media, the "4th leg of democracy", as evidenced by the pentagon psy ops programme the media won't investigate, because they freaking designed it, and this "democracy" is looking terminal.

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          antibrainwasher1 year, 1 month ago

          The new head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (the gatekeeper between lawmakers and public broadcasters), Ken Ferree, is a staunch Republican proponent of media deregulation and a former top adviser to FCC Chairman Michael Powell. Three top CPB officials, all with Democratic affiliations, departed or were dismissed in recent months. For the first time in its 38-year history, the CPB ordered a comprehensive review of public TV and radio programming for "evidence of bias." All new PBS funding agreements are conditioned upon the network following "objectivity and balance" requirements for each of its programs.

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          jumpmaster1 year, 1 month ago

          I wonder how many PBS viewers actually give money to PBS.

          How about this? Subscribe to PBS just like you would any other cable channel. Don't pay, don't get PBS. If a person has real conviction about the existence of PBS then they surely wouldn't mind paying for it.

          I donated to KCET in LA for about 10 years. I really enjoyed the cooking shows. Then the food network came into existence and their offering was much better. So I diverted funds from PBS to the cable company so I could watch the food network and I quit watching PBS.

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