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PITTSBURG —
Dear editor,
In the recent debate Mr. Romney said he would end the $430 million funding for NPR and PBS. Thank God! Do you know how hard it is on a man my age to worry about being caught watching Sesame Street? I’m so tired of those never-ending fundraisers and when they’re on I never get anything done for fear of missing chances to buy another mug. In order to remain on the airwaves stations will have to sell commercial time. Maybe they can publicize Romney’s old company, Bain Capital, with ads saying, “hair salon losing money honey? Bain can make money for you honey. Should you fail we will make money, honey.” It would be disconcerting to be listening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and have a voice say, “we will return for the second movement of Ludwig Von Beethoven’s classic Fifth Symphony after a message from our sponsor, Mitt’s Motor Cars,” which is bracketed by a jingle in hopes of making the interruption more palatable. Imagine watching Nature on PBS where zoologists are assisting with the delivery of the premature offspring of a dying Komodo dragon and while the birth or death are about to occur the program shown live is interrupted by a commercial for pre-paid plans for plots in a pet cemetery. It’s a small price to pay to balance the $1.1 trillion budget deficit. Cutting the about $430 million subsidy would take about 500 years. That would slowly cut our way out of debt. Subsidize that oil though.
Albert Newland
Pittsburg
Dear editor,
In the recent debate Mr. Romney said he would end the $430 million funding for NPR and PBS. Thank God! Do you know how hard it is on a man my age to worry about being caught watching Sesame Street? I’m so tired of those never-ending fundraisers and when they’re on I never get anything done for fear of missing chances to buy another mug. In order to remain on the airwaves stations will have to sell commercial time. Maybe they can publicize Romney’s old company, Bain Capital, with ads saying, “hair salon losing money honey? Bain can make money for you honey. Should you fail we will make money, honey.” It would be disconcerting to be listening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and have a voice say, “we will return for the second movement of Ludwig Von Beethoven’s classic Fifth Symphony after a message from our sponsor, Mitt’s Motor Cars,” which is bracketed by a jingle in hopes of making the interruption more palatable. Imagine watching Nature on PBS where zoologists are assisting with the delivery of the premature offspring of a dying Komodo dragon and while the birth or death are about to occur the program shown live is interrupted by a commercial for pre-paid plans for plots in a pet cemetery. It’s a small price to pay to balance the $1.1 trillion budget deficit. Cutting the about $430 million subsidy would take about 500 years. That would slowly cut our way out of debt. Subsidize that oil though.
Albert Newland
Pittsburg
