Extremists groups have tried to gut funding for PBS for decades at the national level and now they have moved into the states via Republican governors and “heritage-based” thinking. (Whose heritage?)

They refer to PBS as “elitist.” Who uses a word like that to describe PBS?

The old cartel hoped for the failure of PBS from the start and after independent news media (paper and broadcast) were merged out of existence in corporate takeovers of the 1980s, PBS was one of few left standing.

Yet it threatens extremists so. It’s their goal to eradicate public education (their own words) of any sort. They moved their foundations (aka think tanks) into the states and use budget crises as a wedge tool to do away with the things they perceive as roadblocks to their Great Commission agenda.

MPBN as “corporate welfare”? Give me a break.

Any tax subsidies used to bring in businesses in the guise of bringing jobs worked well on us in the 1950s and is a form of “corporate welfare.” Those corporate welfare costs so far exceed costs of human welfare by billions of billions. So less then 0.01 percent (national figure for PBS funding) or the $2 million here in Maine is cheap, cheap, cheap in order to protect the public interest. (BBC, European Journal, Washington Week in Review, Moyers, Truthout, RT, and other diverse sources via public airwaves).

Keep in mind that many people do watch broadcasts only via free (noncable, nondish, nonNet) news sources.

Let’s give all politicians free air time on MPBN. (Other countries do.) That would be worth $2 million to change the process and remove the corruption, lack of integrity and hidden agendas from the People’s Democracy. It would be cheap at $4 million. More even.

Marion Bowman

Augusta