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Posted By Dakota 1 year, 7 months ago in NewsNightly 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, 7 months ago
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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, 7 months ago
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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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Grrr1 year, 7 months ago
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The same could be said of war and lender bailouts. The difference is that PBS does something positive in the world. Just by having some freaking standards. Which are notoriously lacking in anything having to do with Rupert Murdoch.
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vor1 year, 7 months ago
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How could anyone who supports this administration care about ethical standards? Or have any shred of morality? Of course when you get your news from the NY Post and Rush Limbaugh that is usually the result. A life devoid of reality and ethics.
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antibrainwasher1 year, 7 months ago
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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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nostalgia1 year, 7 months ago
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You obviously have not read the Brookings Institution report:
The Bush Administration has brought the era of big government back, say a Brookings Institution scholar and a growing number of conservatives dismayed about such growth under the Republicans' watch.
While the number of official government employees declined slightly after President Bush took office, the Brookings study to be released Friday finds the number of full-time employees working on government contracts and grants has zoomed by more than one million people since 1999, bringing the overall head count to more than 12.1 million as of this past October.
Brookings found that the growth has occurred in such diverse areas as the Department of Health and Human Services and the General Services Administrationâ;;not just in areas such as homeland security and defense following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
You can find info on the report on the Brookings website
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Grrr1 year, 7 months ago
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Link? I don't find the report you mention there.
I would be very surprised if most of those employees weren't outsourced from private contractors or working for private companies on government projects. I bet an awful lot of them are feeding, housing, and supporting the troops and not delivering on the reconstruction contracts. While their employers are making fat bank off of a scam administration while providing half the services for twice the cost as when the government employed those roles directly. Is that what the report said?
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antibrainwasher1 year, 7 months ago
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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, 7 months ago
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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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