{"id":385,"date":"2008-05-06T08:47:39","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T14:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/npt08.wordpress.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2008-05-06T08:47:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T14:47:39","slug":"should-your-tax-money-support-pbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2008\/05\/06\/should-your-tax-money-support-pbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Your Tax Money Support PBS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parade.com\/articles\/editions\/2008\/edition_05-04-2008\/Intelligence_Report\">Parade Magazine<\/a><\/strong> is asking readers if their money should support PBS:<\/p>\n<p>From the site:<\/p>\n<p><em>In the next few months, Congress will decide whether to continue supporting Big Bird\u2014or give him the ax. Public broadcasting gets around $400 million annually from the U.S. government, which covers about 15% of local station budgets. (Most shows are funded primarily by producers, viewer donations, private foundations and corporations.) Now the Bush Administration has proposed cutting funding by half.<\/p>\n<p>Those who agree with this decrease say that, with the availability of high-quality cable-TV shows, public TV is unnecessary. Its average nightly audience is 2.1 million\u2014around half of the viewership of pro wrestling. Responds Eric Boehlert, senior fellow at Media Matters, a nonprofit media watchdog group: \u201cPBS is a success story for the government, ranking up there with the national parks. Any cuts would hurt the millions of people who can\u2019t or won\u2019t pay for cable.\u201d Should tax dollars support PBS? Vote at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.parade.com\/articles\/editions\/2008\/edition_05-04-2008\/Intelligence_Report\"> <strong>Parade.com<\/strong><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parade Magazine is asking readers if their money should support PBS: From the site: In the next few months, Congress will decide whether to continue supporting Big Bird\u2014or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[130,143,162],"tags":[2296],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pbs","category-public-television","category-television","tag-pbs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Should Your Tax Money Support PBS? 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