March 6, 2018: Del Rio News-Herald * Letter to the Editor * "Creeps and Pervs Broadcasting"

Letter to the Editor

“Creeps and Pervs Broadcasting”

Last year Time magazine heralded the year of ‘The Silence Breakers'. 

Seven men from our government sponsored radio and television stations were no longer working due to claims of sexual harassment.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) now known as “Creeps and Pervs Broadcasting”, along with National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting System (PBS) are sponsored and subsidized solely by taxpayer funding and major corporate donors.

In August, John Hockenberry was jettisoned from his NPR program "The Takeaway" with an audience of 3 million listeners on 270 stations. 

In October, NPR's former editorial director and then senior vice president of news, Michael Oreskes was summarily ousted.

Also in October, NPR host of Minnesota Public Radio, Garrison Keillor, creator of "A Prairie Home Companion” was kicked-out. 

In November, Charlie Rose, PBS host of his show “Charlie Rose” and “CBS This Morning” anchor was removed.

Also in November, NPR Chief News Editor David Sweeney was dismissed.

In December, Tom Ashbrook, radio-host of NPR's "On Point" show broadcast on 290 NPR stations, was axed.

Also in December, PBS suspended Tavis Smiley, whose interview show “Tavis Smiley” aired nationwide and also hosted a podcast on NPR. 

These seven men were entrusted according to their mission statement to “educate, entertain and express a diversity of perspectives”. 

They were not to make of themselves all-powerful emperors in the publicly funded broadcasting empire.

This is a golden opportunity for the President and Congress to keep our hard-earned tax dollars from being dumped on this liberal, leftist-leaning media of national radio and television stations and once and for all drain the swamps of NPR and PBS.

Government-sponsored radio and television should not be given our tax dollars to pay these “creeps and pervs” their outrageous salaries and perks and make of them controlling and powerfully influential-makers-and-breakers and thought-shakers in the media conglomerate funded at the expense of the American people. 

The time has come to eliminate government sponsored media.

“All Things Considered”, remember all these “creeps and pervs” were “Made possible by…..Viewers like you."

Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

Del Rio