Recent Developments
Bob McDonnell, the governor of Virginia has slashed public broadcasting funds $424,000.
Dropout Prevention Campaign Launched. A project will focus on 20 cities that have had higher percentage rates of high school dropouts. The program called American Graduate will spend $4.4 million on the project and eventually add 40 other cities to it. The project will help students by raising their awareness of dropout problems.
Public broadcasting exec to speak at KBBG banquet
Lehrer calls for PBS, NPR to invest more in news. PBS anchor Jim Lehrer said that there is a need to increase federal funding in order to meet the need of serious journalism as broadcasters and commercial newspapers see declines. Lehrer said "public media needs to produce more local news and serious journalism because other channels are being used to tease and to entertain and only to inform across the surface. I have a good source on why this is a problem. The source is Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson told the folks back when this country was founded that the only way this democratic society we just created is going to work is if there is an informed electorate."
Public Broadcast funding is to retain most of what President Obama had set aside for it.
Read more about this topic: Public Broadcasting Act Of 1967
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