NPR can badmouth this guy and lie and spread rumors all day long and it won’t matter. Only 20 people total listen to them.
They are being defunded whether they like it or not and no one is going to ride in to save them. No one cares anymore. Bye bye Nina Tottenberg.
I will offer some advice to NPR...which they might want to consider. If congress comes to your door and says defunding is to occur, and that measly three percent that you really bragged about the magic amount is wrong...then you’ve got major issues in a sluggish economy. My perception is that your budget guys hid a fair amount of money which funneled its way from other government resources, and twenty percent of your budget is from the government.
Here is my advice. If you packed up the NPR base of operations in Washington DC, and moved everything to Nashville....you’d cut your cost by half. You wouldn’t have to pay your employees the DC rate for salary. You could cut down the rental cost and operating cost by a significant amount. You could get down to a base of operations that wouldn’t require government funding.
Course, there is a negative to this. Nashville would be in the heartland. You’d have to start grasping at how real people think and operate. You’d have to cut back on political news and get back to regular news. You might even have to get back to old fashioned reporting like folks did in 1966.
Only a suggestion.
“Bye bye Nina Tottenberg.”
Wath her pop up on MSNBC in her new segment “All Liberal Things Considered”.