Tax Payers Continue Supporting PBS?
I recently recieved a forwarded e-mail from my huband from the American Family Association regarding tax payers supporting PBS. I was directed to a link where I could take a this survey as to whether or not I think that tax payers should support this "most liberal network in America"... Here is the body of the e-mail that was sent...
Recently, at the request of Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling, PBS cancelled a program called Postcards From Buster. The program, aimed at small children, featured a lesbian couple.
In addition, PBS featured an extended interview with Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato discussing their documentary Inside Deep Throat which is about the porn movie Deep Throat. PBS officials thought that the porn movie was so important that they just had to give it great publicity on their network using our tax dollars.
It is accepted fact that PBS is the most liberal network in America. PBS has for years pushed the liberal agenda. Yet PBS stations get nearly a half billion dollars a year in tax money to support their operations. The bulk of these tax dollars go to a small number of PBS stations located in major markets in the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast.
PBS viewers are small in number and financially affluent. Their average age is 58. But all of us are taxed to support their programs.
PBS was created in the 1960's when there were a relatively small number of radio stations and only three TV networks. Today there are hundreds of TV channels and over 12,000 radio stations.
By contrast, all other non-commercial stations receive no tax dollars and must depend on their listeners and viewers to raise the operating funds.
I took the survey and said that they DO deserve our tax dollars. I think that these types of radically conservative groups should funnel their energy in more deserved places (IMO). I think that this view is incredibly narrow and far from objective. Think about it- If PBS was required to fund themselves the way other stations do, we'd be subject-or mainly our kids- to all those commercials again and the materialism that is derived from that. No one is forcing anyone to watch Letters from Buster or this Porn movie making thing...There are a lot of other things that my tax dollars go to that I don't agree with, but oh well. Not to mention the other media I directly support every time I open my wallet and purchase, well, anything (Thimk about car shows that flaunt underclothed women, commercials for everything from shampoo to butter to office supplies to yard tools)
I kind of like the fact that my kids can watch a half hour of an entertaining TV program that I have approved of and I don't have to worry about them being bombarded by 15 minutes of commercials in that 30 minute time period. I have to spend more time explaining what's wrong with the content of the commercials than I do explaining what's wrong in the program, which is generally nothing...
As far as being listener/veiwer supported, What difference does it make if they are supported by my taxes or by my 'pledge' or whatever they may call it. And for thos eof you who wouldn't support them out of your non-tax monies- honestly, would you still watch the programs you don't have an issue with? If so, How is that any better? Then you'd be exploiting other people's financial support, while you hypocritically chastize the network as a whole...So what if they are liberal-it's the world we live in!-Get a grip- If your feet are firmly planted in truth, you are more than able to use some biblical, God-given discernment and live with confidence in this liberal choas that surrounds us...
What are your thoughts?
Recently, at the request of Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling, PBS cancelled a program called Postcards From Buster. The program, aimed at small children, featured a lesbian couple.
In addition, PBS featured an extended interview with Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato discussing their documentary Inside Deep Throat which is about the porn movie Deep Throat. PBS officials thought that the porn movie was so important that they just had to give it great publicity on their network using our tax dollars.
It is accepted fact that PBS is the most liberal network in America. PBS has for years pushed the liberal agenda. Yet PBS stations get nearly a half billion dollars a year in tax money to support their operations. The bulk of these tax dollars go to a small number of PBS stations located in major markets in the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast.
PBS viewers are small in number and financially affluent. Their average age is 58. But all of us are taxed to support their programs.
PBS was created in the 1960's when there were a relatively small number of radio stations and only three TV networks. Today there are hundreds of TV channels and over 12,000 radio stations.
By contrast, all other non-commercial stations receive no tax dollars and must depend on their listeners and viewers to raise the operating funds.
I took the survey and said that they DO deserve our tax dollars. I think that these types of radically conservative groups should funnel their energy in more deserved places (IMO). I think that this view is incredibly narrow and far from objective. Think about it- If PBS was required to fund themselves the way other stations do, we'd be subject-or mainly our kids- to all those commercials again and the materialism that is derived from that. No one is forcing anyone to watch Letters from Buster or this Porn movie making thing...There are a lot of other things that my tax dollars go to that I don't agree with, but oh well. Not to mention the other media I directly support every time I open my wallet and purchase, well, anything (Thimk about car shows that flaunt underclothed women, commercials for everything from shampoo to butter to office supplies to yard tools)
I kind of like the fact that my kids can watch a half hour of an entertaining TV program that I have approved of and I don't have to worry about them being bombarded by 15 minutes of commercials in that 30 minute time period. I have to spend more time explaining what's wrong with the content of the commercials than I do explaining what's wrong in the program, which is generally nothing...
As far as being listener/veiwer supported, What difference does it make if they are supported by my taxes or by my 'pledge' or whatever they may call it. And for thos eof you who wouldn't support them out of your non-tax monies- honestly, would you still watch the programs you don't have an issue with? If so, How is that any better? Then you'd be exploiting other people's financial support, while you hypocritically chastize the network as a whole...So what if they are liberal-it's the world we live in!-Get a grip- If your feet are firmly planted in truth, you are more than able to use some biblical, God-given discernment and live with confidence in this liberal choas that surrounds us...
What are your thoughts?
posted by addie at 9:46 AM
2 Comments:
We need to contact our elected officials and complain loudly.
I don't understand conseratives sense of reason or importance. Why does anyone care about PBS, I havent watched PBS since I was 8, maybe 9. Tax money is just for two things, to make the government work and keep us ammused. But whats the point in conserving what we have right now? If all of humanity were conservative, there would be no United States of America, no electricity, no science, no cars, no technology, and no thought.
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