Author, troubadour and statesman, Carl Sandburg was profiled in a new PBS American Masters documentary broadcast on KUED last September. PBS has been in the news after presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he would cut PBS funding.
Courtesy of Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
In the remaining wake of the presidential debates, a lot of misunderstanding has been made about Mitt Romney's part involving reducing government money going to PBS.
If one truly thinks about what he said, what I think it means is that by removing obscenely large amounts of money that the government has been granting to PBS, it will actually keep it being PBS. Keep it being public broadcasting and not government broadcasting.
It is a prime example of keeping something in the hands of the public and to keep it from becoming a political propaganda machine.
Eric Green
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I grew up in a moderately liberal household. My parents both grew up in the the Great Depression and had experienced the benefit of a strong community, with everyone doing their part to make life better for everyone.
My wife was raised in More..
Nate - I mean all of us. It doesn't matter what our political stripes are. "These facts differ from my previously held political beliefs, therefore I reject them" is how my son recently described, in jest, how we often respond to More..
"obscenely large amounts of money that the government has been granting to PBS..."
I guess I have a different notion of what constitutes an "obscene" amount of money.
Federal support for PBS is equal to what we More..