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Congress is voting to END Funding for PBS
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Cheburaha
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 posted 6/15/2005 6:32:49 PM
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Пожауйста помогите если есть время, добавьте свое имя:
Ниже послание от: Noah, Joan, Rosalyn, and the MoveOn.org Team
Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
Dear MoveOn member,
You're incredible.
In less than a day, we've blown past our goal—more than 300,000 of us have signed the petition to save NPR and PBS from losing public funding. This is huge, but we need your help.
Tomorrow, the House Appropriations Committee will decide whether to approve these severe cuts to NPR and PBS. We can stop the cuts—and save public TV and radio—with a strong show of public outrage. We'll report to the committee members on our petition before they vote.
Can you help us reach 400,000 signers by the end of the day? Please send the note below to friends, family and neighbors who count on NPR and PBS.
Thank you for all you do,
–Noah, Joan, Rosalyn, and the MoveOn.org Team
Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
P.S. Here's a note to send your friends:
Hi,
You know that email petition that keeps circulating about how Congress is slashing funding for NPR and PBS? Well, now it's actually true. (Really. Check at the bottom if you don't believe me.)
Sign the petition telling Congress to save NPR and PBS:
http://www.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/?t=1
A House panel has voted to eliminate all public funding for NPR and PBS, starting with "Sesame Street," "Reading Rainbow," and other commercial-free children's shows. If approved, this would be the most severe cut in the history of public broadcasting, threatening to pull the plug on Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and Oscar the Grouch.
The cuts would slash 25% of the federal funding this year—$100 million—and end funding altogether within two years. The loss could kill beloved children's shows like "Clifford the Big Red Dog," "Arthur," and "Postcards from Buster." Rural stations and those serving low-income communities might not survive. Other stations would have to increase corporate sponsorships.
The next vote on the cuts will take place tomorrow (Thursday). Help us reach 400,000 signatures to be delivered to the committee members.
http://www.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/?t=2
Thanks!
P.S. Read the Washington Post report on the threat to NPR and PBS at:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=745
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Cheburaha
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posted 6/16/2005 12:55:07 PM
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Update: June 16th, 2005; 9:51 PST
We've achieved 133% of our 500,000 goal (668,756)!
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Sheriff
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posted 6/16/2005 2:37:51 PM
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..an escalation of a Republican-led campaign against a perceived liberal bias in their programming. That effort was initiated by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's own chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson.
"Americans overwhelmingly see public broadcasting as an unbiased information source," Rep. David Obey (Wis.), the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, said in a statement. "Perhaps that's what the GOP finds so offensive about it. Republican leaders are trying to bring every facet of the federal government under their control. . . . Now they are trying to put their ideological stamp on public broadcasting."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060902283.html
Интересно, они не хотят vote to end O'Reilly, Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh?
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Cheburaha
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posted 6/20/2005 1:39:23 PM
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Все еше нугхна ваша помошь. Пожаилуста добавьте свое имя, если бы еще этого не сделали. Спасибо огрмноые всем кто уже заполнил. Внизу копия сегоднешнего письма:
Dear friend of MoveOn,
In the next few days, the House of Representatives will vote on whether to slash funding for NPR and PBS. And tomorrow, before they vote, we'll present stacks and stacks of printed petitions and public comments to save public broadcasting. We'll be joined by members of Congress and the public TV and radio staff fighting for survival.
Over 820,000 people have signed the petition so far—simply incredible. But we want to present 1 million signatures to the press tomorrow, and we can do it with your help. In all our years of online organizing, we've never heard of one million Americans signing a petition in a week, but we're within striking distance now.
Already, the public outcry has delayed the effort to eliminate funding entirely, but the proposed cuts would still cripple NPR and PBS. Help us reach 1 million signers by the end of the day. Help us reach 1 million signers by the end of the day. Send the note below to your friends, family, co-workers and neighbors who watch or listen to public TV and radio.
Thank you for all you do,
–Noah, Micayla, Carrie, Marika and the MoveOn.org Team
Monday, June 20th, 2005
P.S. Here's a note to send your friends:
Hi,
You know that email petition that keeps circulating about how Congress is slashing funding for NPR and PBS? Well, now it's actually true. (Really. Check the footnotes if you don't believe me.)
Sign the petition telling Congress to save NPR and PBS:
http://www.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/?t=1
The House of Representatives is about to vote on whether to slash funding for NPR and PBS, starting with "Sesame Street," "Reading Rainbow" and other commercial-free children's shows. If approved, this would be the most severe cut in the history of public broadcasting, threatening to pull the plug on Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch.
The cuts would eliminate more than $200 million for NPR, PBS and local stations immediately, with more cuts likely in the future. The loss could kill beloved children's shows like "Clifford the Big Red Dog," "Arthur," and "Postcards from Buster." Rural stations and those serving low-income communities might not survive. Other stations would have to increase corporate sponsorships.
The House will vote on the cuts this week. Can you help us reach 1 million signatures calling on Congress to save NPR and PBS today?
http://www.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/?t=2
Thanks!
P.S. Read the New York Times story on the threat to NPR and PBS at:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=753
Then read the New York Times story on this campaign to save NPR and PBS at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/19/weekinreview/19spam.html
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Sheriff
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posted 6/20/2005 5:26:49 PM
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Солидно, по-моему это единственные программы - ну может ещё CSPAN и спорт местный, которые стоит смотреть. По крайней мере PBS постоянно показывает новости со всего мира - от не-американских новостных агенст.
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dan123
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posted 6/20/2005 7:34:43 PM
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Они в основном рассуждают про PBS Kids, если им не давать денег, они загнутся. Никто не согласится покупать рекламное время в Teletubbies или Clifford. Это же смотрят дети до примерно 4-х лет, какая им реклама нужна, они, правда, рекламу обожают, только ничего не покупают.
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Cheburaha
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posted 6/20/2005 9:23:24 PM
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Хотела добавить/пояснить: На NPR и PBS нет реклам, это назяваетстся "underwriting" когда имена компании платящих взносы просто перечисляутся между программами. Местные штатовские радиостанции и телестанции(кстати многие потеряли поддержку от государства от своих штатов), покупаут программы у NPR и PBS, а платят взносы в зависимости от количества слушащих или смотрыщих программы. Все штаты платят в большои котел, чтобы поддерживать качественные новости.
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Sheriff
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posted 6/20/2005 11:59:03 PM
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думаю, дэнни это не понравится 
Мы публикуем этот баннер на всём сайте вверху страницы, там где Google нам не предлагает текстовых объявлений (придётся покликать).
У меня показывает 967,400 подписей на 12:01 утра, Eastern Standard Time. Если считать по западному времени, у них ещё 3 часа. Думаю успеют. Такое количество подписей конгресс не сможет игнорировать, особенно если крупные издания опубликуют утром.
[Message edited by Sheriff on 6/21/2005 12:05:55 AM]
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dan123
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posted 6/21/2005 10:45:14 AM
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Что именно должно мне не понравиться?
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Sheriff
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posted 6/21/2005 12:23:17 PM
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Ты же у нас республиканец, а это в корне демократический сайт. 
Они 1 миллион подписей собрали.
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dan123
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posted 6/21/2005 12:36:44 PM
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Там, кстати, моя подпись тоже есть.
И я как-то не считаю это происками республиканцев. Просто попытка сбаллансировать бюджет.
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Cheburaha
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posted 6/21/2005 1:29:43 PM
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Update: 10:26 PST
We've achieved 101% of our 1,000,000 goal (1,010,328)!
Успели, Sheriff!
Спасибо всем участвующим!
[Message edited by Cheburaha on 6/21/2005 1:33:14 PM]
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Cheburaha
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posted 6/24/2005 2:21:03 PM
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Update: Thank you all!
Dear friend of MoveOn,
In an unexpected move yesterday afternoon, the House of Representatives approved a measure to restore $100 million of funding for NPR, PBS and local public stations.1 Republican leaders were proposing to slash $200 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, but you helped stop them.
Everyone said it was impossible to reverse any of the House cuts with Republicans in control. Yesterday's Washington Post described the divide between Democrats and Republicans like this:
"[O]n Capitol Hill, it's hard to find a Republican with anything nice to say about National Public Radio or the Public Broadcasting Service. Instead, they denounce them as liberal and elitist, when they bother to talk about them at all."2
Public broadcasting shouldn't divide Republicans and Democrats. More Americans trust NPR and PBS for balanced news and children's programming than any commercial network.3 Yet many Republicans have been intent on either gagging or starving public broadcasting.
So why did 87 Republicans break with the majority of their party and vote to restore the funding? In large part, because over 1 million of you signed the petition calling on Congress to reverse course. And over 40,000 of you made phone calls to your elected representatives. There was a surge of public outrage that couldn't be ignored. This victory was possible because we were joined by Free Press, Common Cause and strong allies in the House—Representatives Markey, Obey, Lowey, Dingell, Hinchey, Watson, Schakowsky, Blumenauer, Eshoo, Slaughter, and Leach, a brave Republican.
Despite this incredible progress, the House Republicans did manage to cut over $100 million, including funding for children's programming like "Sesame Street." We'll take our fight to the Senate when it considers the budget later this summer. But yesterday's vote makes it much more likely we can restore every last cent for NPR and PBS by acting together.
Yesterday also brought darker news in the fight for public broadcasting. The Republican-dominated board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) hired a former Republican National Committee chair as the next president, injecting partisanship into the very organization designed to shield public broadcasting from political meddling.4 This is only the latest effort by White House ally and CPB board chair Kenneth Tomlinson to remake public broadcasting as a partisan mouthpiece. To save NPR and PBS, we'll need to take on Tomlinson, but today we showed that the public can and will defend public broadcasting from partisan attack.
For now, we have a lot to be thankful for. Our kids can keep learning from PBS' children's programming. We can keep enjoying public broadcasting's in-depth, trustworthy news and cultural offerings. Most of all, we can be thankful for the ability of ordinary people to band together and do extraordinary things.
Thank you, for all you do,
–Noah, Joan, Marika, Wes and the MoveOn.org Team
Friday, June 24th, 2005
P.S. Your Congressman, Rep. Baird, voted the right way on NPR and PBS funding.5 You can call to thank him at 202-225-3536.
Please let us know if you call at:
http://www.moveon.org/call?tg=FHWA_03&cp_id=42&id=5703-5998961-GScmtXbprDkpXIujtHEoEA
Sources:
1. "House votes to keep most PBS funding intact," USA Today, June 23, 2005
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Cheburaha
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posted 6/24/2005 2:22:17 PM
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2. "Opponents On Different Wavelengths," Washington Post, June 23, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/22/AR2005062202294.html
3. "CPB's 'Secrets and Lies': Why the CPB Board Hid its Polls Revealing Broad Public Support for PBS and NPR," Center for Digital Democracy, April 27, 2005
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=746
4. "Public Broadcasting Chief Is Named, Raising Concerns," New York Times, June 24, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/politics/24broadcast.html
5. Roll Call Vote in House of Representatives (An "aye" vote is the right vote.)
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll305.xml
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