Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.rbr.com/ ©2010 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.rbr.com/files.php?file=rss_logo1_757997737.jpg http://www.rbr.com/ http://www.rbr.com/media-news/16840.html Media News Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:08:00 -0400 Free Press’s Craig Aaron thinks public broadcasting gets short shrift in the US, and is calling on a Democratic White House and Congress to do Media News Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:05:23 -0400 More money for what? They already abuse the tax payer with non-American-left-wing information that is an outright slap in the face. If they ran more non-bias political programming maybe they would receive more donations from the public.Commercial broadcast radio and TV use the rating system to check and balance their content in order to maintain their advertising revenue base with no handouts or bailouts.Much like the "failure to launch" 40-year old adults still living with their parents, public broadcasting needs to grow up, move on and get real and to stop always looking for more handouts. http://gilloolyinc.com Media News Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:11:42 -0400 90 percent of our AM airwaves is so called Conservative. What it actually is is propaganda for the right and corporate intersts.They frame and drive the political debate becuase they saturate and repeat all day every day their talking points. Sadly, facts are optional with Rush, Beck, Hannity, Savage etc. Then when they finish a local like minded parroting host saturates and repeats the same noise and propaganda. How did 90 percent of stations get that much power for one point of view? Why is there no accountability if they lie or incite hatred towards our Govt or President? This is the cause of so much hatred and partisanship in this Country today and something must be done. They are petrified of a Fairness Doctrine because this power will diminish. Media News Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:17:07 -0400 There's no reason that the politicians have to decide where public media funding goes. Dean Baker has proposed letting each taxpayer direct a certain amount of their taxes to a nonprofit media outlet of their choice.http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/a-plan-to-support-creative-work-100-government-dollars-at-a-time/Dale could give his portion to whatever he considers a pro-American-right-wing outlet, and I could give mine to whoever is willing to get Reading Rainbow back on the air. (Is Reading Rainbow really a biased political program, Dale?) http://www.ukesolos.com Media News Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:14:36 -0400 It is outrageous to realize that commercial TV and radio use the public air-waves, which are "owned by the citizens" and pay not a cent for the use, but pocket billions of dollars in profits from use of those air-waves. We have hundred of channels, most of which produce cultural garbage. Only PBS provides an iota of intellectual content. A tax on the profits of commercial TV and radio could amply fund better quality of public broadcasting. Anyone who thinks PBS is "left leaning" is out-to-lunch on this matter and has been brain washed by Fox News and Clear-Channel radio. Media News Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:24:42 -0400 I'm living in Sweden and appreciate PBS programming through Internet. PBS produce great documentarys, like Nova, Nature, Special, Wired Science, Bill Moyers and others.In my view, PBS programming is better than most of the commercial TV in U.S. and Sweden.Sorry that we outlanders couldn't send PBS donations.You Don't Know What You Have Until You Lose It.