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KBYU may lose its PBS affiliation
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Wherein lies the problem with the liberal approach. They don't want to pay for religious programming, but they expect conservatives to pay for programming that promotes the gay agenda.
See the hypocrasy?
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Let PBS earn it's own way like everybody else - OR they can try to get an Obama bailout like so many other loser businesses.
That's pretty wrong. This isn't about money, btw, it's about bundling and distribution. The PBS organization gets a broader audience, and certain satellites and newsfeeds are owned by them... If they wanted to, they could shut down KBYU's ability to broadcast past the local station, even if the church decided to back it. And that'd be sad for all my friends in Washington state, for example, who enjoy the station on their DirectTVs...
"Churches are capable of funding their own programing" ?? WHAT on earth does that have to do with anything? Stupid remark! Political, gay, health AND sports events ALL are capable of funding THEIR own programing also! POINT IS that PUBLIC broadcasting, paid for by ALL of us, INCLUDING the religeous, are ALL equally important to our country. A diverse community reflection INCLUDES the religeous, if that segemnt of the population WISHES to PARTICIPATE. PERIOD!!
YOUR prejudice is showing.........
Years ago in an election debate the probing question was: Where's the beef? In this next election cycle the question is: Where's the money?
The United States government is bankrupt and only continues to prop itself up by printing more Monopoly money. In order to avoid collapse, our elected officials have chosen to nationalize and socialize. Religion has no place in a socialist society, as we are seeing.
Cherilyn Bacon Eagar
Good bye Jim Lehr among other radical left shows that embarasses me to even be associated with BYU.
What business does government have in spending tax dollars on television funding anyway. I get hundreds of channels on DirecTV that all manage to pay their own way. I don't think anyone in my family has watched a PBS station in over 40 years.
Let's rethink using tax dollars for television, and build some roads, schools, parks, etc. I don't care how much it costs the taxpayer. $1 spent on television programming that could go towards education is $1 too much.
Forget about Church and State. Lincoln said that the responsibility of government was to do for the people what they can't do for themselves.
Close PBS down.
What country am I living in?!?
I've never thought that This Old House is socialist. Same thing with New Yankee Workshop.
What really surprises me is the hatred shown by many of the commentators on this article towards anything Mormon! Has the LDS Church really done anything that bad to warrant this hatred? I grew up in the midwest and I never saw hatred for Mormons there! I remember more the opposite, my friends parents encouraged their kids to hangout with me, the girls I dated said their parents loved the fact that they were going out with a Mormon and in fact I had girls asking me to go to parties with them because their parents would let them go if they went with me.
If you don't like the programming, turn it off when it comes on. I do. Another religion on the tv doesn't bother me one bit. I think it actually helps the community to have a little more religion available. Afterall, a little good would really help us all.
I have found that most of the LDS faithful cannot distinguish between the church and the state. It's bad enough that the this state muddies the waters with a seminary across from every school 9th grade and above; school systems have to "adapt" their schedules to allow for the "voluntary" activity. BYU should stay in the small pond of mormon church education.
American news without American religion? You're an idiot. Mecca without Islam? Intelligence is what????
Choice: KBYU or PBS. No question. KBYU
Additional Funding Resources:
American Documentary, Inc./POV
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Independent Television Service
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Center for Outreach
The Foundation Center (clearing house for foundation grant information)
Minority Consortia:
Center for Asian American Media
National Black Programming Consortium
Native American Public Telecommunications
Pacific Islanders In Communications
Latino Public Broadcasting
These are the people who decide what is televised on PBS... And yes, it does include taxpayer funding.
When are we going to do more than waste time on blogs crying about how hard the liberals are working? So easy to blog; so hard to get up and fight. So easy to toss out ideas and hope some brave soul takes on the challenge; much harder to be the brave soul. By far though it is easiest to pretend not to care.
I know the easy answer is left wing, democratic, religion haters, but that sounds a little too simplistic also. It's easy to shove the demon to the front of the line and yell "he did it!" However, things usually aren't truly that easy to explain.
If it is wrong to promote or support one belief system just because it includes God then should it also be wrong to treat any other belief system differently? Why should religion be prohibited and not prohibit athiesism? Athiestims is also a religon for they must BELIEVE, that there is no God.
Many claim their belief system is backed up by science. Athiests site evolution to support their position. Yet, the scientific community drives anyone who doubts evolution out as heritics.
Evolutionists claim that Intelligent Design is not science because it cannot be tested in a laboratory. Evolution postulates that life emerged by itself without intelligent intervention and that was was not designed; yet, every laboratory experiment on evolution was designed and run by intelligent men. Sounds like a test of Intelligent Design to me.
PBS should allow a free exchange of ideas on all topics. Anything else is indoctrination.
KBYU Pays PBS for programming. I doubt they get much federal funding.
As Neal Maxwell said, "if people are not permitted to advocate, to assert, and to bring to bear, in every legitimate way, the opinions and views they hold that grow out of their religious convictions, what manner of men and women would they be, anyway? Our founding fathers did not wish to have a state church established nor to have a particular religion favored by government. They wanted religion to be free to make its own way. But neither did they intend to have irreligion made into a favored state church. Notice the terrible irony if this trend were to continue. When the secular church goes after its heretics, where are the sanctuaries? To what landfalls and Plymouth Rocks can future pilgrims go?"
I don't see the harm mixing Barney with a Church Devotional every now and then. In fact, that might be more in line with what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
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