[1]Governor McDonnell is set to release his full list of proposed budget amendments today. Among them, for the second time he will recommend phasing out funding for public broadcast service. This will save an estimated $4 million by 2013.
And, doesn’t that make sense?
Recent outcries over the liberal bias of National Public Radio and public broadcasting in general have renewed the cry to eliminate federal funding. After all, why should their be a state owned media when we’ve still got CBS?
And why can’t public broadcasting be self-supporting with profit from some of the billions of dollars of licensed Sesame Street products?
When budgets are tight, we’re called to make difficult choices.
This seems like an easy one.