Why not make it total? I'm talking about the takeover of educational and educatED programming on television and the radio. NPR, PBS? Who needs 'em? I learn more from CourtTV's reenactment of the Jackson case, E!'s scintillating celebrity drama (more Paris!!), FoxNews (where the right make the news), the 5 Law and Orders, the 3 CSIs, the Fishing Network, Soap Operas, Soap Opera Weekly, Reality TV, Reality TV news shows, washed up pop singers ON reality tv shows... man, I just can't handle the excitement. Why did I ever leave my television set? COMCAST, bring me more!
Who needs to learn how to read and write when we can watch the ex-host of Double Dare investigate the histories of candies? Who needs fair, political coverage when we have Ronald McDonald presenting both sides of the debate on McDonald's role in obesity? (Nope, not Fox-- that one was MSNBC.)
Certainly not me. And certainly NOT Congress, whose major accomplisments in the past 2 months have been (in order of importance): 1) a Panel on Steroids and Baseball; 2) a Filibuster; and 3) discussing a blind, brain-dead woman's future in Florida (bless her soul). But you know, they really did those topics well because... well... hm... nothing came of any of them.
But I'm glad they finally cut funding on PBS and NPR. Who needs governmentally-subsidized media, anyhow? Well, those Brits can have their BBC1,BBC2, and Channel4 I guess... and the Canadians can have their CBC... the Aussies can take their ABC TV and SBS TV, and Imparaja... the Italians only have 9 subsidized stations (that in a country where the president OWNS the non-gov. media)... the Swedes, the French, the Swiss, the Greeks, the Indians, the Chinese, the Japanese can all have their handfuls of free tv.
Me? I'd rather have Britney & Kevin to think about.
Last Thursday the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies voted to cut 100 million dollars in funding for public broadcasting in next year's fiscal budget. All funding would be eliminated within two years.
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