Doing your part for public broadcasting…

Posted by Maximum Fun on 24th April 2006

A consortium of public radio & television stations and public media networks (like NPR) have joined together to create TellThemPublicMatters.org, which makes it super-easy to contact your representatives in congress and elsewhere to ask them to stop cutting funding for public broadcasting. The current administration’s budget called for a 38% cut in public broadcasting funding — we must speak up now.

Public broadcasting is a drop in the bucket of the federal budget, but it has a huge impact on our daily lives. If you care as much as I do about this, please take a second to visit the website and contact your representatives. 1/3 of America tunes in to public media every week, and without government funding, that could dissapear — particularly for people in rural and other under-served areas.

And hey, tell your friends. It’s a movement, people.