Even Amy Harmon of The New York Timesrecognizes that MoveOn.org is passing on an old "Save NPR and PBS" web hoax, even though there is no way the networks could possibly go off the air (NPR alone recently received a 200 million dollar bequest from McDonald's heiress Joan Kroc).
If the regulators at the FTC had any principles, they'd go after public broadcasters and their flacks at places like MoveOn.org for false, misleading, and deceptive marketing practices.
Of course, I'm not holding my breath...