Deep down inside, NPR knows that the same fate awaits them as what happened to AIR AMERICA!
Dead and GONE!
Defund and remove tax exempt status ASAP.
National PUBIC Radio; the yeasty, foaming, crotch of liberalism..
Deep down inside, NPR knows that the same fate awaits them as what happened to AIR AMERICA!
Dead and GONE!
I disagree. There seems to be no end of Volvo driving latte sippers who are willing to send them money. Fine and dandy, so stop giving them ours.
“we're yeasty, we're foaming, NPR”
I don’t think they would be dead and gone.
Look, Schueller said what NPR has been saying behind closed doors for a long time. NPR does not need and does not want federal funding. The NPR *board*, which is made up of local NPR affiliates, needs federal funding to keep stations open in areas where the population is too small or where the public does not want it.
NPR is happily streaming content online. If you have the internet, you don’t need your local affiliate station. NPR would be very happy to get rid of some of these local stations that are nothing more than “replay” stations.
Individual NPR programs get plenty of funding directly from listeners as well. I have personally donated money to one music program to which my wife and I listen. I don’t want to fund their news, but some of the music programming is great. I’ll pay for what is good. That is as it should be.
Will NPR survive without federal funding? Absolutely. Pacifica Radio (I call it the commie station, because many of their commentators are self-described communists) is doing well here in Houston. Pacifica has five stations nationwide. That’s it. If NPR has to sell itself, they will not be able to move more left. That space is already taken by Pacifica, and it’s donors are not likely to switch. The space in the right is pretty well taken by AM radio and Fox. NPR will continue to be left of center and will finally sell itself as such.
I think the folks at NPR are dying to say they are lefties, but they can’t with the current board and federal funding. I think that if we dump federal funding some will jump ship and head to Pacifica, which would be awesome. Why would it be awesome? I love to see socialists fighting each other in the marketplace, using market principals to get ahead. The irony would be delicious.