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{"id":36655,"date":"2017-03-11T08:56:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T14:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/?p=36655"},"modified":"2017-03-11T11:14:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T17:14:15","slug":"saving-npr-one-local-affiliate-time-wamc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2017\/03\/11\/saving-npr-one-local-affiliate-time-wamc\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving NPR, one local affiliate at a time: WAMC"},"content":{"rendered":"
My local public broadcasting station, WAMC\/Northeast Public Radio, just raised $1,034,896 in a one-day fund drive, and they\u2019re hoping to start a trend.<\/p>\n
When WAMC president and CEO Dr. Alan Chartock was asked about what motivated this extraordinary and unprecedented outpouring of support, he unhesitatingly answered, \u201cTrump, Trump, and Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n
The time may be ripe for other public broadcasting stations and their viewers and listeners to follow WAMC\u2019s lead and man the barricades as well. Calling federal support for non-commercial public media and the endowments \u201ccorporate welfare\u201d and a waste of taxpayer dollars, Republican deficit hawks, who have placed privatizing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and defunding the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) at the top of their wish list for years, are gearing up to do battle once again.<\/p>\n
With Donald Trump\u2019s election and an emboldened Republican majority in the House and Senate hell bent on shrinking the federal bureaucracy with scant concern for real-life consequences, the welcome banner for defunding is flying high. In a troubling sign, the latest budget proposal of The Heritage Foundation\u2014 the highly influential Republican think tank with an inside track to House Speaker Ryan and the Republican majority\u2014calls for draconian cuts to the federal budget that would include taking an ax to CPB, NEA, and NEH.<\/p>\n