PBS Chief Welcomes Public TV Funding Under Obama

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

PBS chief welcomes public TV funding under Obama

By LYNN ELBER (AP) – 1 hour ago
PASADENA, Calif. — PBS chief Paula Kerger (KUR'-gur) says budget numbers tell the tale of how public TV is faring under the Obama administration, compared to that of former President George W. Bush.

Kerger said that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's $430 million budget for this year was left intact by President Barack Obama, in contrast to the Bush administration's repeated bids to reduce or eliminate the federal subsidy. Kerger says Congress countered Bush's actions.

The president and CEO of PBS told the Television Critics Association on Sunday, "I guess that says something," adding that she's hoping for $450 million next year.

Federal money makes up about 15 percent of public broadcasting's funding, with other sources including corporations and viewers.

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[Capt. America]

1. Obama needs his Pravda to indoctrinate the masses to his socialist agenda.

[The River]

3. WTF?

are you talking about?
PBS has gone way to right and I don't
listen or donate anymore. They are hardly
Obama's "Prevda".

[strategery blunder]

5. I think he forgot something.

Namely, :sarcasm:

[No Elephants]

10. I wouldn't assume that he didn't mean what he posted.

I'm tired of seeing RW posts here.

[Capt. America]

14. I'm sorry I forgot to add the "sarcasm" label. I thought it would be obvious, given the socialist

meme touted by the right.

Actually, I love PBS. It has two of the best, objective news programming on television: NOW and BIll Moyers' Journal.

[bjobotts]

9. That's corporate socialist agenda like corporate welfare.They need more bonuses huh

[DCKit]

2. Probably without the option to censor their content, too. What a refreshing change. n/t

[No Elephants]

12. +1 Remember when they censored a kid's show bc a visit to a dairy farm showed two women in a

kitchen? No comment about being two moms or a family, nothing. Just simply showing one woman working in the kitchen and another sitting on a stool at the breakfast bar. Oh, the humanity!

Meanwhile, kids with two moms get tortured in some schools, but shhhh. Let's not worry about the kids.

Heaven forbid a kid's show helps kids out bit.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Money for those commies at 'This Old House'? No way!

And that Jacque Pepin is French!!!11!!

[Frank Booth]

6. Good. Maybe they'll finally stop running those crappy fundraisers 30 weeks a year.

I'm so sick of no Frontline because PBS feels like torturing me by running the Lawrence Welk show instead.

[No Elephants]

11. Lawrence Welk bringing in more donations than Frontline says it all.

[Blue_Tires]

7. more "Mystery!" i hope....

[Cha]

8. The Wash Post can write about this action, too,

with PBS being better under Pres Obama than the bush years.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6206016

[No Elephants]

13. ACLU, Amnesty International and PBS are my heroes--at least as long as PBS stays free of

censorship and runs shows like Bill Moyers Journal and Frontline.

PBS lets me know the areas that need sunshine, effort, etc. ACLU and Amnesty International take care of human rights.