Its about time!
Nothing is "free". Somebody has to pay for it.............
Budget cutting or enemies list?
All 900? Excellent Smithers.
Duh! That is the objective!
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.
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.
If that fails just have a check-off box in the 1040.
And the downside is...?
I don’t really believe it would shut down many stations, but if it did I certainly wouldn’t mind.
Remember just last year they stated that the amount of money that NPR/PBS gets from the government is “minimal!” Obviously it was BS then and it is BS NOW!
Bottom line - when you are doing a budget (especially a crisis budget when you are BROKE) you get rid of everything that is NOT essential! And, NPR/PBS are NOT essential! PERIOD!
These things have got to go! No matter what! Be GONE!
what happeded to the billion dollars that old widow left to NPR? it was supposed to make NPR free from this issue.
Isn't that the point?
We live way out here in the Alaska Bush, and the only radio station we get is the local NPR affiliate.
We were bombarded with messages this morning telling us to call Rep. Don Young and tell him to keep funding for public radio or else the local radio station would have to cut back drastically or close down.
That’s a damn shame, but it’s a self-inflicted wound. If I didn’t have to hear leftist propaganda from the speakers in my car and inside my house all the time, I’d give them money to stay open. The bias is so powerful sometimes I just turn it off.
So we may lose our radio station. Maybe those people who operate public radio should have realized that they were only talking to 20 percent of the population. Sad all around.
Weren't they just recently telling us that public funding was only a tiny portion of their budget!
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Q: Could NPR live without federal funding?
A: Let’s go on a sidebar. There’s a misperception about federal funding and public radio. There’s the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. They receive $90 million a year and a vast majority goes to member public radio stations. Those stations pull in more than $1 billion collectively a year. It’s significant and important but not even close to the lion’s share of revenues for public radio. NPR gets no allocation from CPB. Zero. We are a private 501(c)3. We’ve had journalists call up and ask what department of the government we report to. That’s laughable. Have you listened to our shows? We do apply for competitive grants from the likes of the Ford Foundation and the Knight Foundation. As a result, some money from CPB does come to us when we win grants. Depending on the year, it represents just one to three percent of our total budget.
Limbaugh once said “ the only time PBS shows anything worth
watching was during their funding drives.” I like the
Red Green show and Dick Proenneke’s Alone in the wilderness
which they only show during the funding drives. After they
hit their mark it’s back to the liberal greenie weeny crap.
I think we will be alright without Charlie Rose and
Tavis Smily. Sesame Street is on private owned latinoid TV.
Are we subsidizing Commcast for it?