We must protect the independent, public media from financial bias.

President Trump plans to cut funding to the arts, which he calls "waste," by privatizing programs like National Public Radio. This would cause NPR to be affected by what Candidate Trump accused Candidate Clinton of suffering from: a debt to financiers rather than the United States and the People.

The People responded quickly by drafting and signing a petition to "Preserve the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities" on whitehouse.gov. But, whitehouse.gov underwent massive changes immediately following President Trump's inauguration, and the petition system appears to be malfunctioning. Hopefully, this petition can serve as a substitute for a whitehouse.gov petition to demand to President Trump and the U.S. Congress that NPR and similar Art and Humanities programs remain unaffected by the change in leadership.

If you are skeptical that their might be waste, check out NPR's spending here. Otherwise, as Winston Churchill may (or may not) have said, If we de-fund the arts, "then what are we fighting for?"