Keep Funding for NPR and PBS
What other public news station gives listeners such an array of heritage? Through the music, the history, the stories, the jokes, the broadcasts are everything. It gives intellectuals a place to breath and for the common folk to learn something new, experience more, and dive deeper. One of my most favorite broadcasts that NPR had was "Thistle and Shamrock". It inspired me to embrace my Irish heritage, my for love a whole new genre of music, and I devotely tuned in every week. That broadcast, like many others, transported me to another place, a forgiven land, even to the stage acts on "Prairie Home Companion" and inside the stories of "Adventures in Odyssey". I not only felt a sense of connection to the programs, but to the world at large too. I felt like the news was of upmost importance, and I liked the feeling of know what was going on. I realize that we have 24/7 news coverage on multiple platforms now, but there is nothing like being a kid who could some how relate to adults and feel apart of the conversations of intellectuals, and knowing that actually taking part was only a phone call away. In a way that social media can never do for me, NPR makes me feel smarter, apart of something larger, and like my IQ just sky-rocketed. So, let's keep our funding for public service, and defunding something else. The fact is that, many people are sick, but by cutting out pesticides from our food, giving our water supply a chance to stay clean, keeping the Paris climate agreement could very well help with millions to get better. Lastly, I grew up with NPR and PBS, my kids already love watch the programs on PBS, plus I already throw NPR on for them to hear, because I love it so much, I want them to love it too. The next generation deserves clean air, clean water, and educational public broadcasting. Please stand with me to keep our arts, and as an artist myself, I could go on and on about how important the arts are, and how much they affect a child's I.Q., so please, stand with me, let's keep public programming!
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