Big Bird to get Privatized; will have to compete in Private Market

From WOUB Radio"House GOP Chairman outlines sweeping spending cuts":

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans proposed ending more than 60 government programs and cutting hundreds of others Wednesday in a $35 billion down payment on their promise to rein in federal deficits.

Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be wiped out under the proposal, presented to the GOP rank-and-file at a closed door meeting.

Liberals furious over proposed cuts

From Moveoninfo.org:

Amazing! Since yesterday, more than 290,000 people have signed our petition telling Republicans to keep their hands off of federal funding for PBS and NPR.

We're aiming to deliver a half-million signatures to Congress next week, to make clear that public broadcasting serves a huge number of Americans and cutting its funding is simply unacceptable.

At the Helm blog:

NPR and PBS are the only quality radio and tv stations left in the US that bring unbiased, relevant information to the US citizens... Save public media - save democracy in the US!

PathtoWellBeing blog:

With Republicans back in charge of the House of Representatives, funding for NPR and PBS is in grave danger. Again.

The Republicans just released their budget proposal, and it zeroes out funding for both NPR and PBS–the worst proposal in more than a decade.

We need to tell Republicans that cutting off funding was unacceptable last time they were in charge, it’s unacceptable now.