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Proceeds from WMFE’s sale of Channel 24 will pay bills
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelWMFE has bills to pay, including $700,000 it owes to PBS for 2011 programming dues, WMFE boss Jose Fajardo says. But that's not all. "At this time WMFE is negotiating with several different state and federal agencies," Fajardo said in an email. "The... -
Kansas governor eliminates state's arts funding
Culture MonsterKansas has become the first state to eliminate funding for its state arts agency, pushing for privatization.... -
NPR president's resignation fuels foes of public broadcasting funding
— Vivian Schiller's resignation as president and chief executive of National Public Radio comes at a perilous time for the public broadcaster, as Republicans in Congress press ahead with plans to slice its federal lifeline.
Schiller's exit on...Tags: Politics, Doug Lamborn, The New York Times, Homes, Vivian Schiller
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House Votes to Cut Funds From NPR
CNNWASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday that would bar federal funding for National Public Radio -- a longtime target of conservatives irritated by what they consider the outlet's liberal bias. The bill passed 228-192 in...Tags: Utah, Computing and Information Technology Industry, CNN (tv network), Politics, Jason Chaffetz
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Crim: Ending public funding for broadcasting would make community radio `go darkż
WMMT-FM is the community radio station of Appalshop Inc., located in Whitesburg, deep in the coal fields of central Appalachia. We serve about 50 counties in rural Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and West Virginia through our FM broadcast...Tags: Maine, Native Americans, Politics, North Carolina, Kentucky
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Patrick: Public media under attack
In his Cold War-era novel, “1984,” George Orwell’s character Syme explains to Winston the language of the totalitarian society: “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? …...Tags: Media Industry, Politics, Rush Limbaugh, Journalism, Glenn Beck
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NPR: tax dollars well spent
Congressional Republicans are all aflutter with the perceived opportunity given them last week to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), particularly its radio branch, National Public Radio (NPR). Ambush journalist Michael O’Keefe,...Tags: Maine, Media Industry, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Texas, Kentucky
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Challenging Obama, House GOP calls for deep cuts
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to take a quick, $35 billion bite out of government, House Republicans called for termination of at least 60 federal programs Wednesday and cuts in hundreds of others, targeting education and the environment, food safety...Tags: Politics, Democratic Party, Crimes, Foreign Aid, Environmental Politics
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Rand Paul's war on the poor
Only a few weeks into his six-year term as U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul has gone off the tracks. He’d been putting the coal to the engine of the crazy train throughout his campaign, piling one embarrassing media disaster upon another, but...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Politics, Kentucky, Social Issues, Environmental Issues
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Book review: 'Reality Is Broken'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesReality Is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World Jane McGonigal Penguin Press: 388 pp., $26.95 As a nongamer, avowed Luddite and mother of a 7-year-old who is mesmerically attracted to anything with a screen, I was...Tags: Soccer, Sports, Gaming, Education, Book
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Invest in early learning
Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch may soon be unemployed. President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2012 budget includes $451 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which oversees PBS and National Public Radio. Congressional Republicans want to...Tags: Media Industry, Politics, Radio, Entertainment, PBS (tv network)
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Shuster to eye budget proposal
Daily American Staff WriterU.S. Rep. Bill Shuster is analyzing a Republican proposal for sweeping budget cuts. According to The Associated Press, 60 government programs would be eliminated and hundreds would see a cut in funding under the proposal. “The congressman...Tags: Democratic Party, Gardens and Parks, Mass Media, Environmental Politics, Washington, DC
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