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ESSAY 68
THE
"PUBLIC BROADCASTING IS GOOD"
MYTH
House Speaker Newt Gingrich is right on target in
eliminating funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcast-
ing! Funding should be dropped for several reasons:
1. TAXPAYERS CANNOT AFFORD IT. Tax revenue must go toward
items that are necessary. The congressional appropriation
for Public Broadcasting this year is $285.6 million. In the
past 27 years, they have received about $3 billion in
government appropriations. In addition, the 1,080 public
television and radio stations have received prime frequency
allocations, and exclusive monopoly broadcast licenses
worth $5 billion dollars. They have also received hundreds
of millions of dollars in federal grants for studios and
broadcast equipment. (George Archibald, "Public broadcast-
ing's federal subsidy far exceeds appropriation," THE
WASHINGTON TIMES, NATIONAL WEEKLY EDITION, 27 February-
5 March 1995, p. A1).
2. MUCH OF THE PROGRAMMING IS ANTI-CHRISTIAN. Channel 19
here in Kansas City has shown soft pornography, supported
homosexuality, preached political correctness and omitted
Christian programming entirely. Most of the programming is
liberal. Some programming is fair except for the atheistic
message.
3. SUPPORTING SUCH STATIONS MAY BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Secular Humanism is the underlying religion of the system.
The U S Supreme Court declared Secular Humanism to be a
religion. (See verification of this charge in Essay 22).
Secular Humanism has become the official state religion and
PBS is an official voice of the state religion.
4. SUPPORTING ANY EVANGELISTIC OUTREACH SUCH AS THIS IS
UNFAIR TO TAXPAYERS WHO DISAGREE WITH THE RELIGION BEING
PREACHED.
5. LIBERAL AND POLITICALLY CORRECT POLICIES HAVE FAILED. IT
IS FOOLISH TO CONTINUE TO PROMOTE FAILED PHILOSOPHIES AND
POLICIES THAT FLOW FROM THEM. It is not only a waste of
taxpayers money, but it will continue the human suffering
that has resulted from them. Examples are abortion on
demand, dependency welfare and anti-family legislation.
6. IT IS UNFAIR FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO SUBSIDIZE SOME MEDIA
AND NOT OTHERS. Let them survive as a corporation in the
public sector. If they can't survive in the free market let
them go under like any other failed business.
END