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In reply to the discussion: Tommy Tuberville Praises Funding Cuts to NPR: 'Farmers Are Not Gonna Miss This' [View all]eppur_se_muova
(39,458 posts)43. What an appallingly pig-ignorant asshole. He needs to learn something about the state he purportedly represents:
The state of Alabama has invested in aerospace, education, health care, banking, and various heavy industries, including automobile manufacturing, mineral extraction, steel production and fabrication. By 2006, crop and animal production in Alabama was valued at $1.5 billion. In contrast to the primarily agricultural economy of the previous century, this was only about one percent of the state's gross domestic product. The number of private farms has declined at a steady rate since the 1960s, as land has been sold to developers, timber companies, and large farming conglomerates.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Alabama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Alabama
There are plenty of well-educated people in AL who want to see their kids grow up with access to educational TV, and supporters of APT know that it played an important historic role:
1955 was a year of important firsts in America. The opening of McDonalds would help revolutionize the restaurant industry. The opening of Disneyland would transform the definition of theme park. And in Alabama, the sign-on of Alabama Public Televisions transmitters in Birmingham and on Mt. Cheaha would make it the first educational television network in the nation, demonstrating enormous new possibilities for students across the country.
In the following years, Alabama would be a prototype for broadcasters and educators in the U.S. and around the world. APTs founding director, Raymond Hurlbert, was elected chairman of the board of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters for 1962-63, and he was president of the National Association of Educational Television in 1968. His participation in legislative hearings on behalf of the Public Broadcasting Act was recognized as key testimony in passage of the legislation, and he was honored by President Lyndon Johnson for his efforts on behalf of what would become national public broadcasting.
https://aptv.org/apt-news/celebrating-americas-first-2/
In the following years, Alabama would be a prototype for broadcasters and educators in the U.S. and around the world. APTs founding director, Raymond Hurlbert, was elected chairman of the board of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters for 1962-63, and he was president of the National Association of Educational Television in 1968. His participation in legislative hearings on behalf of the Public Broadcasting Act was recognized as key testimony in passage of the legislation, and he was honored by President Lyndon Johnson for his efforts on behalf of what would become national public broadcasting.
https://aptv.org/apt-news/celebrating-americas-first-2/
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Tommy Tuberville Praises Funding Cuts to NPR: 'Farmers Are Not Gonna Miss This' [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Saturday
OP
I feel for you. When California is run by their right wing nutballs, it is a nightmare.
travelingthrulife
Saturday
#20
Trump's victory over PBS and NPR 'bias' will be 'devastating' for rural areas, station leaders say.
generalbetrayus
Saturday
#24
This coming from the guy who never shuts up about "illegals" and jacks off to ICE arrests every day.
Karasu
Saturday
#30
Listen, you filthy cockroach. Maybe start pulling your embarrassing state out of the shit can.
chouchou
Saturday
#32
Just so everyone at DU knows, myself and 920,000+ people in Alabama tried our damndest to get Doug Jones re-elected.
Crowman2009
Saturday
#34
What an appallingly pig-ignorant asshole. He needs to learn something about the state he purportedly represents:
eppur_se_muova
Sunday
#43