Media Research Center Applauds Sen. DeMint’s & Rep. Lamborn’s Calls to “Permanently Defund Corporation for Public Broadcasting”
May 9, 2012 – Today Media
Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell
applauds Sen. Jim DeMint (R - SC) and Rep. Doug Lamborn (R - CO) for calling
for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB) to be permanently defunded of
taxpayer subsidies.
According to DeMint, CPB
funding escalated by nearly 31 percent in 11 years and this is during a time
when the United States
is $15 trillion in debt. “Now is the appropriate and necessary time for the
government to end taxpayer subsidies for CPB” said Demint in a letter
released today to colleagues in the Senate.
Both Lamborn and DeMint stress that even President Obama’s 2010 bipartisan
deficit reduction commission recommended that CPB funding be “eliminated
completely.”
Bozell states:
“Good for Senator DeMint and
Congressman Lamborn. They are correct: today
consumers have an endless array of news and entertainment choices and it’s the
height of fiscal irresponsibility to shovel hundreds of millions of dollars at
this utterly outdated concept.
“Nor should the American
people be forced to pay for the CPB’s political indoctrination efforts. PBS and
NPR have both consistently pushed a wildly liberal agenda through 
their ‘news’
programming. The
MRC has long tracked their offenses, and the evidence cannot honestly be
challenged.
“The most recent example is PBS
newscaster Gwen Ifill emceeing an event honoring HHS Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius for implementing ObamaCare. Ifill violated the spirit of the Public
Broadcasting Act by emceeing the event. Even
the PBS Ombudsman said Ifill should have skipped the event. Yet CPB didn’t even
flinch.
“We taxpayers have had
enough. We pay your salaries and a majority of us firmly oppose ObamaCare. How
dare you use our taxes to promote policies we find repugnant?” Bozell
concluded.
Assorted MRC Highlights of CPB
Lowlights:
- PBS Host Tavis Smiley Goes on Tax-Funded Radio to Slam Romney's 'Callousness' on the Poor
- NPR Admits It Scrubbed Clip of Mara Liasson Separating 'Educated Women' and 'Stay-at-Home Moms'
- PBS Ombudsman Says PBS Anchor Should Have Avoided Sebelius-Honoring Event -- and NewsBusters Criticism
- NPR's Diane Rehm Denounces House GOP Wasting 'Precious Time' on the Paul Ryan Budget
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