There's been much threatening from the political right in Senate on cutting everything they can (save, of course, for the massive and unrivaled amount set aside for wars, secret and reported, reasoned and industrially motivated). They would love to cut anything too high brow, say education and the arts, and while they are at it, PBS and NPR. This comparably small sum given over to these organizations (in relation to the aforementioned sum for sanctioned murder) should not be taken away. Who wants to live in a world without Sesame Street or All Things Considered? NPR is a bright light in the increasingly dim world of news. They have journalists all over the world, reporting on events as they happen, without surrounding each item in a cultural and political aura based on any particular bias. This cannot be said for many other sources, and one in particular. Read
this article out of The Atlantic concerning this very issue. Here is a segment:
There are jobs where people are mainly motivated by the hope of big money. (Finance in general.) There are jobs where the main motivation is job-security. And there is a category of jobs where, as absolutely everyone recognizes, it makes a tremendous difference that "employees" care about something beyond pay, hours, and security. Teachers. Soldiers. Doctors and nurses. Judges and police. Political leaders, if they want to be more than hacks. And, people in news organizations.
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