Free Press, a nonprofit advocacy group supposedly dedicated to promoting a “independent media ownership,” has posted a letter attacking Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., for their efforts to end taxpayer funding of Public Broadcasting. According to Free Press’ Josh Stearns, the $445 million that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting gets each year is a “tiny federal investment” that “is vital to helping support programming that commercial media won’t showcase and provides an important foundation for stations around the country to build on.”
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