PBS and NPR Petition
With the all the new students out there looking for a cause to rant about.... you can mark this one off your list.
PBS and NPR - Petition
In 1995 two well-meaning but misguided students at UNC started an email petition regarding pending legislation that would affect the funding for PBS and NPR. They didn't mean to open a can of worms, but they did. The petition is still circulating on the Internet and has taken on a life of its own.
If you have received this petition, please delete it and advise anyone within hearing distance to do the same.
For further information you can try these links:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/nea.asp
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa052798.htm
http://www.npr.org/about/urbanmyth.html
We are sorry for any inconvenience this causes members of the Internet community.
Please be careful in forwarding any kind of email to large numbers of people. Too many people will take a message at face value without checking on its validity.
posted by Pili @ 14:51
2 Comments:
Actually, I did the same thing this morning. I replied to the people who sent me the University of Colorado email, telling them it was all a myth from 1995. THEN I get another email from a friend about it, and it appears that this time it's actually happening. You can read the Washington Post store here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060902283.html
And here's a REAL petition from moveon.
http://www.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/
I know I read that too and then I went to NPR's site and not sure what to think. At any rate people will come together and help. I love PBS and would cry if anything happened to it.
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