roundtable: Support for Gore and PBS

roundtable: Support for Gore and PBS

Support for Gore and PBS

Marc Rotenberg (rotenberg@epic.org)
5 Mar 1995 17:11:50 -0500 

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Date: 5 Mar 1995 17:11:50 -0500
From: "Marc Rotenberg" <rotenberg@epic.org>
Subject: Support for Gore and PBS
To: roundtable@cni.org


Those folks on this list who are concerned about the future 
of public broadcasting should take a moment and send email 
to Al Gore and thank him for his remarks last week in support 
of PBS.

The address is vice.president@whitehouse.gov

If you care about PBS, this is a great chance to show support.

Marc.

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(From a Reuter's report of the Vice President's speech
at American University last week)

Vice President Al Gore lambasted "extremists" he said were trying to kill 
off public broadcasting in the United States and said the Clinton 
administration would fight to save it. 

Gore said attempts to cut federal funding for public broadcasting were 
part of a "mean-spirited" Republican assault on programs that enrich 
children, like school lunches and the summer jobs program. 

"Public broadcasting is a national treasure," Gore told an audience at
American University in Washington. "Public broadcasting is a part of 
American culture ... and if you try to kill it, we will fight you every 
step of the way."  

(Story notes that 90 percent of the 70 million children in the United 
States have regular exposure to at least one program on public 
broadcasting that for many children, public broadcasting is the first 
exposure they have to numbers and letter)

    Gore charged that "privatizing" was really a code word for 
commercializing public broadcasting, which he said was the opposite of 
what most Americans want. 

     "A lot of Americans have had it up to here with commercial television"
and the violence and sex in its programming, Gore said. Commercial 
television did not eliminate the need for federal funding for educational 
programs, he added.

- Reuters -


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