Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Vivian Schiller Quote Of The Week At National Press Club

Really, she said this, two days ago.

Schiller also defended federal funding for public broadcasting, which is currently under fire in Congress. To her credit, she avoided a tit for tat with Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who argued in an op-ed in last Friday's Wall Street Journal that public broadcasting, backed by liberals, is rich enough to go private.

Even though NPR gets about 10 percent of its revenue from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, it "plays a critical role in generating the other 90 percent," Schiller explained. "You pull out one thread, and the whole thing unravels.


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