Posted on 02/14/2011 12:54:52 PM PST by tobyhill
The head of National Public Radio on Monday warned House Republicans against zeroing out federal funding for public broadcasting, arguing that cutting off the annual subsidy could shut down some or all of the 900 public radio stations around the country.
The House Appropriations Committee last week unveiled its budget for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, which ends Sept. 30. It included nothing for NPR, which has been in the sights of Republicans who say the network's liberal agenda silences any other points of view. Opponents cited the firing of Fox News Channel contributor Juan Williams last fall as an example of its intolerance.
But NPR CEO and President Vivian Schiller warned that radio stations in rural and underserved areas offer "more than 38 million Americans with free over-the-air programming they can't find anywhere else."
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Its about time!
Nothing is "free". Somebody has to pay for it.............
Budget cutting or enemies list?
Get the Car Talk guys, Garrison Keillor and the What Do You Know guy to pitch in..................
NPR is not a necessity.
NPR is not a necessity.
All 900? Excellent Smithers.
Kill two Big Birds with one stone.
Duh! That is the objective!
Free people do not support NPR. By its own admission, it exists only as the result of government compulsion
NPR amd PCS are obscenely in the black and overfunded, as well!!!
I saw them whining about it on facebook. I told them to quit lobbying and start contributing. That pissed them off.
Guess what lady, a lot of those places don't have stations playing 1970s disco or three hours of comedy every evening or the latest made-up "genre" of the week either. Welcome to the real world.
This group is claiming that it only cost $1.35 per year, per American to fund it but they fail to mention, it’s not their $1.35 to spend.
http://www.170millionamericans.org/
The premise that, in 2011, Americans - even those in ‘rural’ locations - can’t get (liberal-slanted) ‘news’ anywhere else than NPR is absurd. There is absolutely no justification for taxpayers to be forced to support NPR when at least half of the U.S. population is in opposition to NPR’s blatant left-wing bias. NPR can thank that idiot who was so puffed up with her own power that she summarily fired Juan Williams, a moderate liberal, from NPR, forgetting, as those who live off of other people’s money often do, that NPR was vulnerable to being cut off from the public teat. Now, it is finally going to happen. In my opinion, about 40 years too late.
I thought that subsidies for NPR “were too small to matter.”
If that fails just have a check-off box in the 1040.
+1
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