Subject: This time, it's for real: Save NPR and PBS

You know that email petition that keeps circulating about how Congress is 
slashing funding for NPR and PBS? Well, now it's actually true.  Read the 
Washington Post report on the threat to NPR and PBS at:

<http://www.moveon.org/r?r=745>http://www.moveon.org/r?r=745

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.
The cuts would slash 25% of the federal funding this year­$100 million­and 
end funding altogether within two years. The loss could kill beloved 
children's shows like "Clifford the Big Red Dog," "Arthur," and "Postcards 
from Buster." Rural stations and those serving low-income communities might 
not survive. Other stations would have to increase corporate sponsorships.

MoveOn.org is leading efforts to show our government leaders that 
widespread support does exist for public broadcasting.  Unlike those 
ill-conceived and ineffectual email petitions (glorified chain letters) of 
the past related to NPR, this organized campaign by MoveOn.org is based on 
a very real threat to public broadcasting and it addresses this threat with 
an effective method which records each individual signatory and delivers 
the results to appropriate governmental officials.

If you are interested in signing a petition telling Congress to save NPR 
and PBS, you can do so at

<http://www.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/>http://www.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/


Verbie Prevost


Verbie Lovorn Prevost
Katharine Pryor Professor of English
Acting Head of English
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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