Fwd: Important: NEA, NPR Legislation - Funding

[JQ Johnson]

I found it amusing and troubling that an NPR/PBS petition was once again
making the rounds on the net.    Whether or not this worthy cause is
current, a chain letter like this has no business on a list like web4lib.
Chain letters have a way of coming round and round and round years after
they were relevant and providing one of the least reliable -- but most
inflamatory -- sources of misinformation on the Internet.  Too many of our
patrons, faculty included, actually believe that there are kidney pirates,
or that there is a modem tax proposal, or that Craig Sheregold is still
collecting business cards.

Do not forward chain letters.  Find some other way to participate in the
political process.  For example, a letter to your Congressperson,
particularly in an election year like this, is MUCH more effective.

[as an aside, do some homework before participating.  The funding politics
are over on capitol hill for this year; there's no pending activity to
further cut either NEA or NPR budgets.  I wasn't aware of any new cert at
the Supreme Court, but in any case a petition isn't about to influence that
process!]

For your amusement, take a look at
<URL:http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/fcn/archive-1998-99/fcn-news-981005.h
tml#lighterside>

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