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Article: Who Would Kill Big Bird?; Pull the plug on public television. It's an upper-middle-class entitlement.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 23, 1992
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Is nothing sacred? Evidently not. Even public television is
being questioned by some conservatives who evidently do not
understand the importance of being earnest.
Some troglodyte Neanderthal Puritan Yahoo philistine
reactionary inquisitorial Victorian barbarian blue-nosed Cromwellian
know-nothing Savonarolas - that is, conservatives, as the public
television lobby sees them - are wondering why taxpayers should give
another $1.1 billion to public television.
A good question.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was born 25 years ago
as a final filigree on the Great Society. It already has a quarter
of a billion of federal funds for 1992 and another quarter of a
billion in 1993. At ...