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To: Dayuhan who wrote (4239)	2/1/2001 12:01:31 AM
From: YlangYlangBreeze	Respond to of 82486

Target NPR, and PBS? That's sick. They can't spend four years doing that and exect to get re-elected. Everybody loves PBS.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (4239)	2/1/2001 1:27:33 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

PBS and public radio are wonderful.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (4239)	2/1/2001 8:33:09 AM
From: bosquedog	Respond to of 82486

stiller.com urbanmyths.com

To: Dayuhan who wrote (4239)	2/1/2001 8:52:20 PM
From: bosquedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

stiller.com The PBS / NPR Funding Petition Hoax This is another hoax in the long line of the Forward For Money Hoaxes and the The "Chain Letter" Hoaxes. Like many 'worthy cause' related hoaxes this one preys on the fact that most people really want to help others. And PBS and NPR certainly have my personal support but forwarding this email will do nothing other than waste peoples time and create unnecessary traffic on the internet. Here is the text of this hoax: On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Next, there's the question of Congressional funding for National Public Radio (NPR), NEA & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. Currently, taxes from the general public for PBS equal $1.12 per person per year, and the National Endowment for the Arts equals $.64 a year. A January 1995 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll indicated that 76% of Americans wish to keep funding for PBS, third only to national defense and law enforcement as the most valuable programs for federal funding. The Senate and House Appropriations committees each have 13 subcommittees with jurisdiction over many programs and agencies. Each subcommittee passes its own appropriation bill. The goal each year is to have each bill signed by the beginning of the fiscal year, which is October 1. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the President of the United States and the Vice President of the United States. This petition is being passed around the Internet. lease add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for the NEA, NPR & PBS. HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: IT'S EASY Please keep this petition rolling. Do not reply to me. Please sign and forward to others to sign. If you prefer not to sign, please send to the e-mail address indicated below. DON'T WORRY ABOUT DUPLICATES This is being forwarded to several people at once to add their names to the petition. It won't matter if many people receive the same list as the names are being managed. This is for anyone who thinks NPR/PBS is a worthwhile expenditure of $1.12/year of their taxes, a petition follows. If you sign, please forward on to others. If not, please don't kill it -- send it to the email address listed here: wein2688@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.edu or kubi7975@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.edu ****If you happen to be the 150th, 200th, 250th, etc. signer of this petition, please forward a copy to: wein2688@blue.univnorthco.edu. This way we can keep track of the lists and organize them. Forward this to everyone you know, and help us to keep these programs alive. Thank you! NOTE: It is preferable that you SELECT (highlight) the entirety of this letter and then COPY it into a new outgoing message, rather than simply forwarding it. In your new outgoing message, add your name to the bottom of the list, then send it on. Or if option is available, do a SEND AGAIN. This hoax is a little more believable than many of the other Forward For Money Hoaxes because it does not claim that your email will somehow be magically tracked (and your efforts rewarded) but rather it suggests that the cumulative email be sent at intervals to two recipients (these could easily be innocent victims of this hoax or be the actual authors of the hoax the hoax interested in seeing how widely this spreads). While it's a worthy effort to help out PBS and NPR, this type of scheme can do nothing more than accumulate a huge list of unverifiable email addresses. Forwarding this email will not help PBS or NPR but you will be forwarding an email message that will continue to get forwarded on the internet indefinitely. (Please never forward any message like this that contains text that encourages the recipient to do the same; such a message will needlessly keep circulating, wasting people's time and internet resources.