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Administration's Budget Proposal Includes Unprecedented
Cuts
for Public Broadcasting
For 2009 and 2010, the Administration has proposed
cuts to public broadcast funding that, if enacted,
would slash 56 percent of our annual budget.
Every Cut Means "One Less"
With every dollar cut from the budget of public
broadcasting, there is the potential of "one
less."
One less child who will learn to count with the
characters of Sesame Street. One less rural
community that will have access to the news, cultural
and educational programming public radio and television
provide. One less educational Web site available
to our nation's schools.
When the Funding is Provided
When the funding is provided, what is accomplished
is truly immeasurable. We can expand our local
news coverage. Develop more programs like Capitol
Hill Radio Unit, which have been such a success.
We can continue to fund public television's Between
the Lions and public radio's Heartland
Chronicles. We can assure stations serving
rural and minority communities that they will
receive the funding they
so desperately depend on.
And because of all we are able to accomplish
when the funding is provided, we've decided to
take a different tactic this year.
Taking it One Step Further
Instead of asking Congress to stop the Administration's
proposed budget cuts, we're going to take it one
step further.
Let's
ask Congress to increase funding for public broadcasting.
Rather than thinking in terms of "one less,"
let's start thinking in terms of "one more."
With every dollar added there is the potential
that…One more Web based television program
will be developed to address the interpersonal
challenges we face as a nation, such as the Not
in Our Town series. One more rural community
will be able to receive local and national news
broadcasts.
Tell
Congress what public broadcasting
means to you.
Tell
them public matters.
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