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The end of NPR & PBS is near!
On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if
the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA. HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: |
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This is of course false. I hadn't seen this one in a while::
http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/nea.asp Also, it's posted from a hotmail account through Google in an apparent attempt at anonymity. Send complaints to as well as hotmail and google. On 3 Jun 2004 06:17:20 -0700, (B.F. Goodrich) wrote: Path: bigbe1!bigfeed.bellsouth.net!news.bellsouth.net!ne ws.glorb.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: (B.F. Goodrich) Newsgroups: rec.audio.pro Subject: The end of NPR & PBS is near! Date: 3 Jun 2004 06:17:20 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 17 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.163.167.239 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1086268640 17696 127.0.0.1 (3 Jun 2004 13:17:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 13:17:20 +0000 (UTC) Xref: bigfeed.bellsouth.net rec.audio.pro:917367 On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts ----- http://mindspring.com/~benbradley |
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"B.F. Goodrich" wrote in message
om... On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA. HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: Go to: www.snopes.com Search on "Nina Totenberg". Peace, Paul |
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"B.F. Goodrich" wrote in message
om... On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA. HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: Go to: www.snopes.com Search on "Nina Totenberg". Peace, Paul |
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"B.F. Goodrich" wrote in message
. com... On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA. HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: PBS is worth keeping. The demise of the other two would not upset me at all. Wayne |
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"B.F. Goodrich" wrote in message
. com... On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA. HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: PBS is worth keeping. The demise of the other two would not upset me at all. Wayne |
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Your listing to NPR. We're smarter than you...
-- Steven Sena XS Sound Recording www.xssound.com "B.F. Goodrich" wrote in message om... On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA. HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: |
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Your listing to NPR. We're smarter than you...
-- Steven Sena XS Sound Recording www.xssound.com "B.F. Goodrich" wrote in message om... On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA. HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: |
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B.F. Goodrich wrote:
On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. [ ... ] Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This would be quite alarming if true, but it is actually a well-known Internet hoax going back years, one which surfaces again every so often. In case the person who posted this was serious: Please, before sending any message of this type ("Hey everybody! There's an emergency!"), check it out at any of a group of "Urban Myth" Web sites. www.kumite.com/myths, hoaxbusters.ciac.org and www.snopes.com are good places to start for general "urban myths"; for computer viruses, the sites of the major anti- virus software vendors (Symantec, McAfee, etc.) can be consulted. In many cases they will not only stop you from making a fool of yourself, but will also spare you the stress of believing that an emergency is occurring. Worse yet is the paranoia that comes from believing that you're one of the few (or only) people who are aware of the impending disaster--like in the final scene of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". That'll age you fast. Certainly there are enough causes for real alarm in the world that we don't need to augment them with made-up situations. |
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B.F. Goodrich wrote:
On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. [ ... ] Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This would be quite alarming if true, but it is actually a well-known Internet hoax going back years, one which surfaces again every so often. In case the person who posted this was serious: Please, before sending any message of this type ("Hey everybody! There's an emergency!"), check it out at any of a group of "Urban Myth" Web sites. www.kumite.com/myths, hoaxbusters.ciac.org and www.snopes.com are good places to start for general "urban myths"; for computer viruses, the sites of the major anti- virus software vendors (Symantec, McAfee, etc.) can be consulted. In many cases they will not only stop you from making a fool of yourself, but will also spare you the stress of believing that an emergency is occurring. Worse yet is the paranoia that comes from believing that you're one of the few (or only) people who are aware of the impending disaster--like in the final scene of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". That'll age you fast. Certainly there are enough causes for real alarm in the world that we don't need to augment them with made-up situations. |
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Sorry, my bad.
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Sorry, my bad.
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Wayne wrote:
PBS is worth keeping. The demise of the other two would not upset me at all. Over the last two decades I've heard more original music in between NPR newscasts than I have heard via any other type of broadcast. Worried about the US Federal budget? Try this: http://www.e-tractions.com/truemajor...MzMjE3gjK3gjds -- ha |
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Wayne wrote:
PBS is worth keeping. The demise of the other two would not upset me at all. Over the last two decades I've heard more original music in between NPR newscasts than I have heard via any other type of broadcast. Worried about the US Federal budget? Try this: http://www.e-tractions.com/truemajor...MzMjE3gjK3gjds -- ha |
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hank alrich wrote:
Wayne wrote: PBS is worth keeping. The demise of the other two would not upset me at all. Over the last two decades I've heard more original music in between NPR newscasts than I have heard via any other type of broadcast. Too many of the NPR affiliates have turned into classical warhorse stations, and altogether too much of the NPR classical programming coming off the bird consists of the top 200 classical pieces, over and over again. Tune into St. Paul Sunday Morning and you'll hear the same thing you heard the night before from the Chicago Symphony. You will never hear George Antheil or Xenakos on the national programs, but for that matter you won't hear C.P.E. Bach much either. What makes up for this is some of the fine local programming, and it's in almost all markets large and small. Yes, there are folks on local stations who play Janacek operas still. As long as this is the case, I'll keep sending them a donation. --scott I could listen to Georges Collinais all day long, though. -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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hank alrich wrote:
Wayne wrote: PBS is worth keeping. The demise of the other two would not upset me at all. Over the last two decades I've heard more original music in between NPR newscasts than I have heard via any other type of broadcast. Too many of the NPR affiliates have turned into classical warhorse stations, and altogether too much of the NPR classical programming coming off the bird consists of the top 200 classical pieces, over and over again. Tune into St. Paul Sunday Morning and you'll hear the same thing you heard the night before from the Chicago Symphony. You will never hear George Antheil or Xenakos on the national programs, but for that matter you won't hear C.P.E. Bach much either. What makes up for this is some of the fine local programming, and it's in almost all markets large and small. Yes, there are folks on local stations who play Janacek operas still. As long as this is the case, I'll keep sending them a donation. --scott I could listen to Georges Collinais all day long, though. -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message ... What makes up for this is some of the fine local programming, and it's in almost all markets large and small. Yes, there are folks on local stations who play Janacek operas still. As long as this is the case, I'll keep sending them a donation. In this market--the same as Scott's--there was a wonderful commercial classical station, WGH-FM. It was #13 just before the owners flipped it to rock. We get 40-some FM signals here and you would think that one of the low-rated stations would want to get up to #13 by programming classical... -- Chris White, Freelance Advertising Writer & Voice Overs* Email: Web: www.chriswhite.com Phone: 757-621-1348 *Your opinion may vary |
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"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message ... What makes up for this is some of the fine local programming, and it's in almost all markets large and small. Yes, there are folks on local stations who play Janacek operas still. As long as this is the case, I'll keep sending them a donation. In this market--the same as Scott's--there was a wonderful commercial classical station, WGH-FM. It was #13 just before the owners flipped it to rock. We get 40-some FM signals here and you would think that one of the low-rated stations would want to get up to #13 by programming classical... -- Chris White, Freelance Advertising Writer & Voice Overs* Email: Web: www.chriswhite.com Phone: 757-621-1348 *Your opinion may vary |
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(B.F. Goodrich) wrote in message . com...
On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA. HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: The beginning of the end was a long time ago when Newt Gingrich sucessfully got spending on these things cut back during his tenure in congress. If you recall the republicans at that time were decrying a liberal imbalance in funded arts programs and citing such works as Maplethorpe? for being vulgar and having no real value. After those cutbacks public broadcasting, both TV and radio suddenly started have corporate tag lines before and after programs. They essentially ammount to commercials and they have gotten more and more like the traditional broadcast commercials. Obviously this is because they are courting money from big corporations. So any further cutbacks would be the end. But the current product already is far from what we once knew. Mike http://www.mmeproductions.com |
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(B.F. Goodrich) wrote in message . com...
On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA. HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: The beginning of the end was a long time ago when Newt Gingrich sucessfully got spending on these things cut back during his tenure in congress. If you recall the republicans at that time were decrying a liberal imbalance in funded arts programs and citing such works as Maplethorpe? for being vulgar and having no real value. After those cutbacks public broadcasting, both TV and radio suddenly started have corporate tag lines before and after programs. They essentially ammount to commercials and they have gotten more and more like the traditional broadcast commercials. Obviously this is because they are courting money from big corporations. So any further cutbacks would be the end. But the current product already is far from what we once knew. Mike http://www.mmeproductions.com |
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(B.F. Goodrich) wrote in message . com...
On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA. HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: The beginning of the end was a long time ago when Newt Gingrich sucessfully got spending on these things cut back during his tenure in congress. If you recall the republicans at that time were decrying a liberal imbalance in funded arts programs and citing such works as Maplethorpe? for being vulgar and having no real value. After those cutbacks public broadcasting, both TV and radio suddenly started have corporate tag lines before and after programs. They essentially ammount to commercials and they have gotten more and more like the traditional broadcast commercials. Obviously this is because they are courting money from big corporations. So any further cutbacks would be the end. But the current product already is far from what we once knew. Mike http://www.mmeproductions.com |
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(B.F. Goodrich) wrote in message . com...
On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA. HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: The beginning of the end was a long time ago when Newt Gingrich sucessfully got spending on these things cut back during his tenure in congress. If you recall the republicans at that time were decrying a liberal imbalance in funded arts programs and citing such works as Maplethorpe? for being vulgar and having no real value. After those cutbacks public broadcasting, both TV and radio suddenly started have corporate tag lines before and after programs. They essentially ammount to commercials and they have gotten more and more like the traditional broadcast commercials. Obviously this is because they are courting money from big corporations. So any further cutbacks would be the end. But the current product already is far from what we once knew. Mike http://www.mmeproductions.com |
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(B.F. Goodrich) wrote in message . com...
On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA. HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: The beginning of the end was a long time ago when Newt Gingrich sucessfully got spending on these things cut back during his tenure in congress. If you recall the republicans at that time were decrying a liberal imbalance in funded arts programs and citing such works as Maplethorpe? for being vulgar and having no real value. After those cutbacks public broadcasting, both TV and radio suddenly started have corporate tag lines before and after programs. They essentially ammount to commercials and they have gotten more and more like the traditional broadcast commercials. Obviously this is because they are courting money from big corporations. So any further cutbacks would be the end. But the current product already is far from what we once knew. Mike http://www.mmeproductions.com |
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(B.F. Goodrich) wrote in message . com...
On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice President of the United States. This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA. HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: The beginning of the end was a long time ago when Newt Gingrich sucessfully got spending on these things cut back during his tenure in congress. If you recall the republicans at that time were decrying a liberal imbalance in funded arts programs and citing such works as Maplethorpe? for being vulgar and having no real value. After those cutbacks public broadcasting, both TV and radio suddenly started have corporate tag lines before and after programs. They essentially ammount to commercials and they have gotten more and more like the traditional broadcast commercials. Obviously this is because they are courting money from big corporations. So any further cutbacks would be the end. But the current product already is far from what we once knew. Mike http://www.mmeproductions.com |
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Too many of the NPR affiliates have turned into classical
warhorse stations, and altogether too much of the NPR classical programming coming off the bird consists of the top 200 classical pieces, over and over again. And in other markets, they become just another me-too talk outlet. |
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Too many of the NPR affiliates have turned into classical
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On 4 Jun 2004 06:39:13 -0700, (Mike) wrote:
The beginning of the end was a long time ago when Newt Gingrich sucessfully got spending on these things cut back during his tenure in congress. If you recall the republicans at that time were decrying a liberal imbalance in funded arts programs and citing such works as Maplethorpe? for being vulgar and having no real value. After those cutbacks public broadcasting, both TV and radio suddenly started have corporate tag lines before and after programs. They essentially ammount to commercials and they have gotten more and more like the traditional broadcast commercials. Obviously this is because they are courting money from big corporations. So any further cutbacks would be the end. Eliminating federal funding for broadcasting would definitely be the end of federal funding for public broadcasting (sorry for the tautology), but since it's already such a low percentage of their budget, things wouldn't change much. (They might drop Weekend Edition, or regretably, "From The Top" but I have no doubt they'd keep "Car Talk.") But it would certainly NOT be the end of these "they're cutting funding for Public Broadcasting" chain letters. In another response in this thread, wrote: I guess this is an appropriate time to post this: The following has made the rounds recently and is purportedly penned by a college instructor with help from his networking class. Hi Folks. I am sure that some of you who receive this will see that some parts of this message apply to you. Please do not be insulted, as this is just a general list of rules to live by when you are on-line, or sending e-mail. Years ago I was on a mailing list where chain letters were often forwarded, and every time, someone would post a similar response text. It seemed like a waste of bandwidth, so I put the text on my website, and posted the URL every time I saw a chain letter posted: http://www.mindspring.com/~benbradley/gulltest.html Some of the links may be dead, but the idea expressed holds up as well as ever. In retrospect, posting the whole text was probably more effective, since the perpetrators are less likely to go to a website than to read text right in front of their noses. But the current product already is far from what we once knew. ----- http://mindspring.com/~benbradley |
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On 4 Jun 2004 06:39:13 -0700, (Mike) wrote:
The beginning of the end was a long time ago when Newt Gingrich sucessfully got spending on these things cut back during his tenure in congress. If you recall the republicans at that time were decrying a liberal imbalance in funded arts programs and citing such works as Maplethorpe? for being vulgar and having no real value. After those cutbacks public broadcasting, both TV and radio suddenly started have corporate tag lines before and after programs. They essentially ammount to commercials and they have gotten more and more like the traditional broadcast commercials. Obviously this is because they are courting money from big corporations. So any further cutbacks would be the end. Eliminating federal funding for broadcasting would definitely be the end of federal funding for public broadcasting (sorry for the tautology), but since it's already such a low percentage of their budget, things wouldn't change much. (They might drop Weekend Edition, or regretably, "From The Top" but I have no doubt they'd keep "Car Talk.") But it would certainly NOT be the end of these "they're cutting funding for Public Broadcasting" chain letters. In another response in this thread, wrote: I guess this is an appropriate time to post this: The following has made the rounds recently and is purportedly penned by a college instructor with help from his networking class. Hi Folks. I am sure that some of you who receive this will see that some parts of this message apply to you. Please do not be insulted, as this is just a general list of rules to live by when you are on-line, or sending e-mail. Years ago I was on a mailing list where chain letters were often forwarded, and every time, someone would post a similar response text. It seemed like a waste of bandwidth, so I put the text on my website, and posted the URL every time I saw a chain letter posted: http://www.mindspring.com/~benbradley/gulltest.html Some of the links may be dead, but the idea expressed holds up as well as ever. In retrospect, posting the whole text was probably more effective, since the perpetrators are less likely to go to a website than to read text right in front of their noses. But the current product already is far from what we once knew. ----- http://mindspring.com/~benbradley |
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"Mike" wrote...
The beginning of the end was a long time ago when Newt Gingrich sucessfully got spending on these things cut back during his tenure in congress. If you recall the republicans at that time were decrying a liberal imbalance in funded arts programs and citing such works as Maplethorpe? for being vulgar and having no real value. After those cutbacks public broadcasting, both TV and radio suddenly started have corporate tag lines before and after programs. They essentially ammount to commercials and they have gotten more and more like the traditional broadcast commercials. Obviously this is because they are courting money from big corporations. I hate to be the one to break the news, but NPR and PBS have had those corporate tag lines (they're called "underwriting" in the trade) since they began broadcasting. For a while, PBS was known as the "Petroleum Broadcasting System" because of the prevalence of oil company underwriting (e.g., Gulf's underwriting of Masterpiece Theatre, which they no longer do). Annoying and troubling? Yes. But not new. Peace, Paul |
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"Mike" wrote...
The beginning of the end was a long time ago when Newt Gingrich sucessfully got spending on these things cut back during his tenure in congress. If you recall the republicans at that time were decrying a liberal imbalance in funded arts programs and citing such works as Maplethorpe? for being vulgar and having no real value. After those cutbacks public broadcasting, both TV and radio suddenly started have corporate tag lines before and after programs. They essentially ammount to commercials and they have gotten more and more like the traditional broadcast commercials. Obviously this is because they are courting money from big corporations. I hate to be the one to break the news, but NPR and PBS have had those corporate tag lines (they're called "underwriting" in the trade) since they began broadcasting. For a while, PBS was known as the "Petroleum Broadcasting System" because of the prevalence of oil company underwriting (e.g., Gulf's underwriting of Masterpiece Theatre, which they no longer do). Annoying and troubling? Yes. But not new. Peace, Paul |
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Paul Stamler wrote:
I hate to be the one to break the news, but NPR and PBS have had those corporate tag lines (they're called "underwriting" in the trade) since they began broadcasting. For a while, PBS was known as the "Petroleum Broadcasting System" because of the prevalence of oil company underwriting (e.g., Gulf's underwriting of Masterpiece Theatre, which they no longer do). Annoying and troubling? Yes. But not new. You know, I never thought I would be sad that Texaco was dropping sponsorship of the Met broadcasts. But here it has finally come, and it's the end of an era. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Paul Stamler wrote:
I hate to be the one to break the news, but NPR and PBS have had those corporate tag lines (they're called "underwriting" in the trade) since they began broadcasting. For a while, PBS was known as the "Petroleum Broadcasting System" because of the prevalence of oil company underwriting (e.g., Gulf's underwriting of Masterpiece Theatre, which they no longer do). Annoying and troubling? Yes. But not new. You know, I never thought I would be sad that Texaco was dropping sponsorship of the Met broadcasts. But here it has finally come, and it's the end of an era. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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