Bush Wants Big Bird Dead

In his salacious $2.9 Trillion budget, the President assumes eternal war, and guts public services in America.  Specifically, he proposes cuts in the PBS Budget ranging from $114 Million to $145 Million.  Astounding.

public TV and congressional sources said at least $114 million of the $460 million CPB budget for the fiscal year that starts in October would be cut. The Association of Public Television Stations said the total impact could be $145 million when cuts in related programs are added, including a program to upgrade radio station satellite facilities.

"It's more of the same," said John Lawson, president and CEO of the Association of Public Television Stations, noting previous requests to cut funding for public TV, most of which were overturned by Congress.

U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's telecom panel, ripped the cuts.

"In a 24-7 television world with content often inappropriate for young children, the public broadcasting system represents an oasis of quality, child-oriented educational programming," he said. "We owe America's children and their parents this free, over-the-air resource."

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A spokeswoman for PBS said that the cuts would be "disastrous" for public TV stations.

According to Newsweek, many fear that our children are already turning in to a generation of "Prosti-tots", due to the overwhelming media celebritization of sleeze.  Gutting PBS undermines quality and care in the American media market leaving kids to rummage through the ruins.

This is an insult to American decency.
[ HT / Think Progress]

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