Posted on 02/14/2011 12:54:52 PM PST by tobyhill
Bump... Verrrry interesting...
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This is good news for liberals: now they will finally be able to have a successful for-profit liberal radio chain!
They could never compete with NPR.
Of course the pay and benefits won’t be as high as NPR paid.
They lost us when they dropped Doctor Who.
NPR wants to eat their cake and have it, too.
We are in a rural area and we don’t need no stinking NPR, we have several local stations, including one that I can listen to Rush and Beck on. The closest big city is 4.5 hours away. So there :þ
Does NPR actually think their 900 stations and valuable equipment would just remain locked up and unused without federal funding?
Their frequencies are all salable assets as well.
Some of their most overpriced help might be forced to look for real jobs or retire. That's all.
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$12.95 a month and look what you get - NPR +++
Plug and play radio for your vehicle ~ $40
Do more than cut off funding, privatize it. Put it up for sale along with Amtrak, the remaining shares of General Motors owned by the government, the US Postal Service, TVA, Rural Electrification Agency, and other quasi public activities that can be performed by the private sector.
The government needs to have a garage sale to extract value from the leeches that have been attached to the taxpayer for too long. They need to take Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae through a proper bankruptcy and cut them loose. Same with FHA.
Boehner can announce — “We were disappointed in the record deficit established by the budget submitted by the President today. We take the deficit seriously and have determined there are many activities currently being executed by the government that belong in the private sector. By selling the agencies performing the tasks, we can both eliminate the ongoing drain on the treasury while raising money this year to pay back some of the debt. This is a win-win for the American people.”
Another option — issue shares in NPR and PBS and sell them to the viewers and listeners as well as any academic and Hollywood leftists who are committed to the cause. Let them gain experience trying to run a business.
Heaven help us if the Republicans in Congress can’t eliminate funding for PBS and NPR. If we can’t make these cuts, there will be no progress eliminating the $1.5 billion annual deficit.
NPR can sink or swim, but it must do so without any tax dollars!
Let's see.. Vivian's salary is $450,000 + a mandatory $112,500 bonus, making it $562,500 per year. Add in the benefits packages, and likely the gross total is $750,000 a year.
Seems like you're doing just fine without any taxpayer support, if you can afford to pay 3/4's of a million dollars a year for someone who creates no content nor actually works for any station. Hire a spokeshole for $75,000 a year and invest the rest in a station.
Yes, Yes, Yes! No more of that monotone zombie who hosts A Prairie Home Companion.
I thought that between the McDonald’s family money and the four beg weeks each year they didn’t need our money...
Wanting to have it both ways is in the liberal DNA
This would be a bad thing, how?
Schiller was paid a bonus of $112,500.
Given her base salary of $450,000,
Schiller’s salary information, however, is not in the 990 forms. She is listed as working 40 hours per week on NPR’s latest 990 form, but, for “reportable compensation from the organization,” NPR lists “none.” The latest 990 form available on the organization’s website is from the 2009 fiscal year, from Oct. 1, 2008 through Sept. 30, 2009.
In 2009, NPR paid $1.22 million in salary and bonuses to Schiller’s predecessor Kevin Klose and another $1.22 million to NPR president Ken Stern. NPR says the amount paid to Stern swelled because the organization bought his contract out early.
NPR President Vivian Schiller says her organization only gets up to 3 percent of taxpayer dollars. But an analyst argues that NPR’s $166 million budget is actually made up of more than 25 percent of taxpayer dollars.
Well...they'll all just have to switch to a commercial format and work for living won't they?
I think I'll survive...
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