What would public broadcasting do with $178 billion?
salon.comVia Salon:
Apparently Americans want to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting because they think 5% of the federal budget goes to NPR and PBS. That was the media guess in a CNN poll released Friday. If that were true, Talking Points Memo noted, that would mean the CPB would receive $178 billion a year from the government. (And that’s not even counting what they get from Archer Daniels Midland and viewers like you.)
BBC, the largest broadcaster in the world, takes in $7.5 billion in income a year. If Americans were right, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would have a bigger budget than every military on Earth besides our own. NPR would beat China in an arms race.
What would the Corporation for Public Broadcasting even do with that kind of money, besides continue to have a liberal bias and support the establishment of sharia law?
Personal favorite: “Frontline” would always be in IMAX 3D.
Coley Porter Bell Shine Awards
From: http://www.cpb.co.uk/blog/2011/10/cpb-shine-awards-2011/
An annual competition, set by us to find the brightest and shiniest (3rd yr) design student to join our ranks for a work placement when they graduate. The winner also gets a whopping big cheque to spend on whatever they choose.
We put the competition out to the UK’s top design universities and filter 1,000s of applications down to a mere 10 finalists.
Here are the final 10 poster entries for this years competition. The winner will be judged and announced on the 2nd November at an award ceremony in London. Watch this space!
Again, this years event will be generously sponsored by a client of ours, Chivas - who put on a terrific whiskey cocktail bar.
Good luck to all the finalists.
But a special good luck to the three NUCA GD3 students who are shortlisted - Jess Duncan, Khrissie Farrands, and Becki Turner.
“In a CNN poll of American adults released Friday, the median guess on what percentage of the federal budget goes to public broadcasting was 5%. With a $3.55 trillion budget last year, that would put funding for the CBP at approximately $178 billion. In reality though, that's not even close. The CPB received about $420 million last year from the federal government, making it roughly one one-hundredth of one percent, of the overall budget. That means that the median response was about 424 times higher than the actual amount of federal funding that went to public broadcasting last year. Further, 20% of respondents thought CPB funding made up over 10% of the entire budget, including 5% who said it made up at least half.”
—Poll: Americans Wrongly Estimate $178 Billion In Fed. Budget Goes To Public Broadcasting
5% think CPB gets ONE HALF of the entire federal budget.
Put differently, 5% think NPR and Elmo get more in one year than what we’ve spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars since 2001.
The new 112th Congress wants to shut down PBS and NPR. Please sign this petition to help save the nonprofit Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Um passo a mais!
Vale lembrar que o livro é um projeto social para compra de cadeira de rodas e outros equipamentos para PPDs que não possuam recursos. Ato nobre que, com certeza, Fernanda fez tocada pelo Espírito Santo.
Os contatos dela, para entrevistas e agendar programações nas igrejas são:
FERNANDA LIMA - Emails: flima@lilly.com e fernlu@hotmail.com
