The End of Public Television?

For this show, I am joined by Deborah Vinson (Director Thurston County Media, Olympia, WA), Jeffrey Hansell (Director, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA), Mary Cardova (Wisconsin Community Media, Madison, WI – see: https://wisconsincommunitymedia.com/advocacy/), Jay April (President and CEO Akaku Maui Community Media https://akaku.org/), and others on FCC plans to cut the funding for Public TV here in the United States.

Under proposed rules by Federal Communication Commissioners (FCC) Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly, the FCC will allow corporations like Comcast and Verizon to deduct what is called “in kind” contributions for Public TV – these deductions will dramatically decrease the franchise fees now paid by Comcast, Verizon, and other companies for their access to public airwaves to broadcast their private television shows. The result will be the end of Public TV in the United States.

Comcast, Verizon, and other corporations want to shut down the monies for Public TV for several reasons: (a) they view Public TV as a “threat” – they want everyone to pay for TV, (b) Public TV can’t be controlled by the Cabal. If you care about Public TV, and want it to continue, please email or write the FCC at: 455 – 12th Street, SW, Washington D.C. 20544, or email them at: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings

  1. Under “proceedings”, enter 05-311
  2. Under “name of filer”, enter your name
  3. Under “Type of Filing”, select “Reply Comments”
  4. Enter your address, etc.
  5. Attach your comments in a scanned pdf file
  6. Check “email confirmation”
  7. Enter “Continue to Review Screen”
  8. Enter “submit”

Please let the FCC that: (a) you support Public TV and want it to continue, (b) you strongly disapprove of FCC’s “MB 5-311” recommendations to give companies like Comcast and Verizon a deduction for “in-kind” contributions. All over the United States, Public TV stations relay upon the charitable contributions by people to maintain their stations. If big companies like Comcast and Verizon are allowed to deduct what they pay for the use of public airwaves by so called in kind contributions, Public TV will end in the United States.

Why should we subsidize Comcast and Verizon? Why should we let them destroy Public TV? Not one word of this has been in the mass media in the U.S., because ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and FOX all want to destroy Public TV. Please also contact your local U.S. Senators and Representatives and let them know that we need to save Public TV!

As David Rockefeller said: “We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our (Bilderberger/Cabal secret) meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to … (“democracy”) practiced in past centuries. https://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/globalism/rockefeller.htm

I urge everyone reading this post to please contact the FCC and tell them of your opinion. The last time anyone tried to end Public TV in the U.S. was Richard Nixon in 1972 — we all know what happened to him! Perhaps it is time for FCC Commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly to be impeached (like Nixon was in 1972)? Their anti-democratic values certainly don’t reasonate with most Americans.

December 14, 2018