Well, I’m guessing this doesn’t bode well for the rest of the folks downstream of CPB. As I’ve hinted in my parody posts the folks at PBS and NPR will start feeling a little hungry very soon. Lightening the ship by throwing the deadwood overboard will be tricky because they’re all deadwood.
But watching it happen should provide quite a bit of entertainment this fall. Luckily Books and Capon were on the leading edge and managed to find positions before the crush got too heavy. I’ll have to make a point of visiting my local Red Lobster and quiz my waiter on the latest in avant-garde lesbian performance art.
But I was told only a tiny amount of my taxes went to these propaganda machines.
If that’s true, why shut down?
As it turns out the salaries of the CPB come 100% from those taxpayer funds. So the good people of the CPB will have to go elsewhere for their sinecures. Oh wait, USAID is already gone and the State Dept is laying off! Hey, Red Lobster!
You mean they were lying when they said that only a few per cent of PBS’s, CPB’s income came from Fed money??!! Progressive Dims lying? Who thought it possible?
Maybe it is just a few percent of PBS and NPR’s overall budget. But it’s 100% of the money available to the CPB. And I’m betting that few percent is critical to getting more money. It probably pays for the infrastructure and the salaries of the big shots. I think they’re looking at lean times ahead.