Urge the New Congress: Safeguard Public Media

Email Your Legislators: WQED is Trusted, Valued, and Essential

With 70+ newly elected lawmakers, a critical funding deadline on March 14, and new calls to defund public media, now is the time to make our voices heard! Federal funding ensures that WQED can continue to give you access to essential educational, local, and cultural programming; trustworthy, in-depth news; and emergency and community-based services. As the debate over public media funding continues, encourage your Members of Congress to safeguard federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and local stations like WQED.

Use This Template

Here’s what you can say

• Identify yourself as a constituent, which town/city and state.
• Thank the member for his/her service to your community/state.
• State the purpose of the call: you are concerned about the threat to federal funding for public television, and ask that the Senator/Representative protect this important funding.
• Tell them why public media is important to YOU.
• You understand that members of Congress have to make difficult budget decisions.
• Public media is an important investment; it’s free to all, and provides access to educational kids’ programs, public affairs, news, music, arts, culture and history.
• There is no replacement for public media.
• Please make sure funding for public media continues.
• Thank you for your time.