Then Every Week Would Be Pledge Week
Maybe we should just set CPB loose from its government moorings? This Frank Rich piece got me thinking - and probably not in the way he intended. Let’s admit it, CPB is “liberal”. Not in the evil sense imagined by Rove and his minions, but it has liberal tendencies, and I imagine it would love to take the liberal ball and run with it.
If the only way to “save” CPB is to co-opt it by buddying up to the present administration, perhaps it’s time to cast off the lines and let it float alone. I don’t think it would sink. Sure, it would list and take on some water, but it would right itself sooner rather than later. It would be a smaller ship for sure, but it would be its own ship. Perhaps a rejuvenated CPB - and not Al Franken’s Air America - would be the real answer to the growing conservative media (talk radio and TV). [My deepest apologies for the terrible boat metaphor.]
Oh course, pledge weeks would be hell - since they really would depend upon viewer/listener contributions.
If the only way to “save” CPB is to co-opt it by buddying up to the present administration, perhaps it’s time to cast off the lines and let it float alone. I don’t think it would sink. Sure, it would list and take on some water, but it would right itself sooner rather than later. It would be a smaller ship for sure, but it would be its own ship. Perhaps a rejuvenated CPB - and not Al Franken’s Air America - would be the real answer to the growing conservative media (talk radio and TV). [My deepest apologies for the terrible boat metaphor.]
Oh course, pledge weeks would be hell - since they really would depend upon viewer/listener contributions.
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