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Money Changes Everything: how a quarter-billion dollars has changed NPR (Barf Alert!)
NY Times ^ | March 19, 2006 | By JACQUES STEINBERG

Posted on 03/19/2006 2:07:39 PM PST by Greg o the Navy

WASHINGTON — To Jay Kernis, senior vice president of programming at National Public Radio and a founding producer of "Morning Edition," the darkest moments in the network's 36-year history probably came in 1983, when it was just days away from running out of money and had to be sustained with emergency transfusions from its member stations and from federal grants.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: liberal; liberaltalkradio; msm; npr; publicbroadcasting; treason
Apparently treason is quite profitable for National Puke Radio.

We need to do more than cut off funding. These SOBs need to be silenced and herded into jail for being in bed with our enemies.

1 posted on 03/19/2006 2:07:43 PM PST by Greg o the Navy
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To: Greg o the Navy

Gee, that must be terrible, when a show producer gets paid by the people who want to broadcast his show.

Oh, the horror!


(Sarcasm light is lit)


2 posted on 03/19/2006 2:10:59 PM PST by Donald Meaker (You don't drive a car looking through the rear view mirror, but you do practice politics that way.)
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To: Greg o the Navy

RIP NPR


3 posted on 03/19/2006 2:26:50 PM PST by right right
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To: Greg o the Navy

Am I the only one to notice the supreme irony in the pansy pacifist radio behing supported by funds taken from working stiffs like my by threats of violence and the barrel of a gun ?


(Otherwise known as tax funded grants ).


4 posted on 03/19/2006 2:46:09 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: festus

All the more reason to use the extraoridinary powers of government to forcibly shut down NPR and its network of subversion.


5 posted on 03/19/2006 3:45:03 PM PST by Greg o the Navy (America's willing Al Qaeda allies: DemonRATS, liberals & the ACLU)
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To: Greg o the Navy

NPR needs to be weaned them from the public teat.


6 posted on 03/19/2006 3:47:24 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (The NY Times & CBS should merge news organizations...they have the same ethics.)
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To: Greg o the Navy
Money Changes Everything: how a quarter-billion dollars has changed NPR

Clearly not enough.

7 posted on 03/19/2006 3:48:47 PM PST by RichInOC (...somebody was going to say it...why not me?)
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