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My name is Soni Pitts. I'm a professional copywriter and marketing geek, among other things.

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Sunday, June 26, 2005
The Antiques Roadshow lives, but Big Bird takes a hit

An update on the whole government not funding NPR biz that I blogged about last week, this news:

After massive outcry and public protests, Congress restored 100 million of the proposed $200 million cuts in a party-line-trampling vote. Not a complete turnaround (some funding for childrens' programing, like Sesame Street, were left unfunded among other things), but given the fact that most people had nearly conceded that we'd have to pry any funding for NPR out of the cold, dead hands of conservative Republican budget-busters, the magnitude of this miracle is along the lines of, while not quite being able to book a luxury ice-skating vacation in hell, still being able to build some decent snowmen. Brrrrrr....

Next on the agenda - trying to restore Big Bird's funding in the Senate.

How did your Representative vote? Check it out the roll call for that vote (an aye vote is a vote to preserve the funding). Don't like what you see? Let your Congressman or Congresswoman know how you feel.

Posted at 11:58 pm by sonipitts

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