Have you heard?? The House Appropriations Committee just approved a spending bill that would slash spending for public television and radio nearly in half!! And the first to be hit by this spending cut??? The ..ady to Learn..rograms for producing children.?shows, like ..same Street..”Reading Rainbow”, ..tween the Lions..and ..agon Tales…strong> We can’t let this happen!! In this crappy TV world full of sex, violence, ‘reality’ tv and just more crap, PBS is the only thing my daughter can safely watch! And it is the only TV where you aren’t bombarded by advertising telling kids what they ‘need’ and ‘must have’ because they won’t be cool with out it! Here is an article about the spending cut. And here is where you can speak up about it! Please, please write to your congresspeople!
We have already lodged our complaints with every person we can think of. PBS! Of all things to attack!
I also signed. Man, what is wrong with us (and by “us” I mean US) to reduce funding on something so paramount and increase spending on such useless causes such as the salaries of those doing the cutting of expenses. I grew up watching Sesame St–I can’t imagine TV without it and I agree it is the only safe thing for our children to watch…Thanks for the “heads up”!