Romney’s Threats to Public Media Ignore Popular Will | Free Press
Free Press Action Fund President and CEO Craig Aaron made the following statement:
“It’s disappointing that Mitt Romney continues to use his public platform to disparage public funding for public media. The public consistently ranks support for public media as an excellent use of our tax dollars, second only to national defense. Cutting funding for public media wouldn’t allow these vital outlets to stand on their own. It would cut them off at the knees. Hundreds of communities would lose public media stations that provide local news, children’s programming and community voices found nowhere else. If Governor Romney truly wants to represent the vast majority of Americans, he should propose long-term ways to build a world-class public media system, not issue vapid campaign threats.”
