http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/22021/

I won't copy the text. It's quite long, and if you follow the link you'll also find video and audio.

The speech was given before these cuts were proposed, so there's no discussion of them. There is, however, a lot of discussion of Ken Tomlinson's recent actions at the CPB, related to the perception of "bias" on PBS. And of course these issues are strongly interrelated.