More Cuts
Bush resuscitates old reasons to hate him.
Bush: Slash public broadcast funds [Hollywood Reporter]
WASHINGTON -- President Bush took a swipe at Big Bird and his ilk Monday as he proposed slashing funds to public broadcasting by more than $150 million. In the president's 2007 budget request, CPB funding will be cut by $53.5 million in 2007 and $50 million more in 2008. Those cuts don't reflect others made in funding at the Education and Commerce departments and the elimination of specific programs for digital TV conversion and satellite delivery system. Public broadcasting officials estimate that the entire budget cuts run $157 million over the two-year period. "Oscar the Grouch has been friendlier to the Sesame Street characters than President Bush, who has chosen to make huge cuts to children's television programming," said Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. "In a world of fast-and-furious television with ratings-driven content, the public broadcasting system represents the last stronghold of quality child-oriented programming -- we owe this to America's children."
I wish that PBS had trained a select group of second graders with questionable moral compasses and excellent hand-eye coordination. It wouyld be cool if Seasame Street had a "crack commando unit" that could, as Pat Robertson would say, "take 'em out."
Maybe Bush was reading about evil Bert and got scared....
Bush: Slash public broadcast funds [Hollywood Reporter]
WASHINGTON -- President Bush took a swipe at Big Bird and his ilk Monday as he proposed slashing funds to public broadcasting by more than $150 million. In the president's 2007 budget request, CPB funding will be cut by $53.5 million in 2007 and $50 million more in 2008. Those cuts don't reflect others made in funding at the Education and Commerce departments and the elimination of specific programs for digital TV conversion and satellite delivery system. Public broadcasting officials estimate that the entire budget cuts run $157 million over the two-year period. "Oscar the Grouch has been friendlier to the Sesame Street characters than President Bush, who has chosen to make huge cuts to children's television programming," said Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. "In a world of fast-and-furious television with ratings-driven content, the public broadcasting system represents the last stronghold of quality child-oriented programming -- we owe this to America's children."
I wish that PBS had trained a select group of second graders with questionable moral compasses and excellent hand-eye coordination. It wouyld be cool if Seasame Street had a "crack commando unit" that could, as Pat Robertson would say, "take 'em out."
Maybe Bush was reading about evil Bert and got scared....