Ha Ha NPR

[Texsun]

Just committed suicide...They drew attention to themselves by firing Juan Williams.

 

[West Texas]

Yep...

http://www.texasguntalk.com/forums/politics/18503-juan-williams-gets-fired.html

 

[proforguns]

I listen every once in a while it reminds me they their side is more stupid than mine.

 

[cuate]

" Bell Bottom britches, buttons made of brass, Take old George Soros and shove NPR up (censored) " you know how it should be sang ? Right on !

 

[texas skeeter]

Yeah i also think this is them "Pulling an Acorn"!!

 

[M. Sage]

NPR receives approximately 10% of its funding from the Feds. Wonder exactly how much money that is...

 

[SWJewellTN]

Actually, they were saying last week that they receive less than 2% of their annual budget from the Feds. I think that's 2% more than necessary.

 

[leonidas]

I've never listened to NPR for very long. I feel myself getting dumber with every sentence uttered. It seems to be an outdated dinosaur of a lefty persuasion.

 

[M. Sage]

Actually, they were saying last week that they receive less than 2% of their annual budget from the Feds. I think that's 2% more than necessary.

They cook the books. They receive no direct funding from the feds, but they get money from their member stations who pay fees to rebroadcast their tripe. 10% of the money member stations receive is in grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which are funded with federal dollars, in spite of the CPB supposedly being a private non-profit.

It gets more convoluted than that, but my head is already spinning from all the contortions they make you go through to track the money.

Anybody who goes to this much trouble to make it hard to tell exactly where their money is coming from is dishonest, period.

And let's not forget entropy. At every stage of the process, large amounts of money are disappearing into keeping this infrastructure going. CPB is getting a cut of those federal dollars, member stations are getting a cut, etc. The member stations' cut is where they justify that "1.5%" claim. I ask you: if those member stations are not NPR, then what is? NPR likes to claim that they're separate entities, which I contend is false. They are part of the NPR giant.

 

[West Texas]