By Bob Parks ——Bio and Archives--February 16, 2011
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The Obama administration will cancel shortwave radio broadcasts by Voice of America into China this year, as Beijing is expanding its propaganda operations in the United States and around the world.But that doesn’t mean the “news” won’t get out….
As some Republicans on Capitol Hill try to cut, or even eliminate, its government funding, National Public Radio has sent a public thank-you to the Obama administration for proposing an increase in taxpayer funding for public radio. “Public broadcasting received a vote of confidence today from the Obama Administration,” NPR said in a statement Monday. “The President’s FY 2012 budget submission to Congress included $451 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for the two year advance appropriation for FY 2014, an increase of $6 million over FY 2013 funding.”We’ll see how far that goes through the Republican Congress. It was NPR’s Vivian Schilling who said something to the effect that they really didn’t need the paltry two percent of it’s budget in taxpayer money they receive during the whole Juan Williams debacle. That is, before Republicans decided to take away the money she said NPR didn’t need.
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Bob Parks is a is a member/writer of the National Advisory Council of Project 21. Bob’s websites are Black & Right and youtube.com/BlackAndRight