The House wants to give Big Bird the Axe!
This time, it’s for real: Save NPR and PBS
A House panel has voted to eliminate all public funding for NPR and PBS, starting with “Sesame Street,” “Reading Rainbow,” and other commercial-free children’s shows. If approved, this would be the most severe cut in the history of public broadcasting, threatening to pull the plug on Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch.
please visit moveon.org to sign a petition to save NPR and PBS.
What would we do without Oscar the Grouch and “This American Life?” If for some crazy ass reason we lose, then I guess we’ll all have to motivate and start our own local pirate radio and television stations. Some friends of mine have already moved in this direction and they’re travelling around the world spreading the good word, check em out Neighborhood Public Radio.
