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our first comment and i go so lynn poso the tom hartman facebook page here's what she had to say about the media i tell my husband i love your show and can we watch it every day if we can seven years ago we moved from connecticut to west virginia i'm still stunned by what's goes on down here anyway we watch bill moyers show on west virginia p.b.s. on sundays we're looking forward to is special united. face of alec and they decided not to air it at all i'm so upset that someone decided that the people of west virginia shouldn't be able to be informed really i'm outraged because p.b.s. gets government funding so who decides what we're allowed to watch on t.v. the koch brothers dish network are there other forces at work here people here are denied the right to truth and don't even know it i'm guessing this is not the only state where people are purposely kept ignorant it's just so frustrating well with regard to p.b.s. and both radio and television it's only small a small amount of their total budget comes from government funds it's been shrinking radically since the reagan administratio