NPR Given Record Donation

Washington Post ^ | Thursday, November 6, 2003 | By Paul Farhi and Reilly Capps

[Big Giant Head]

National Public Radio will announce today the largest donation in its history, a cash bequest from the will of the late philanthropist Joan Kroc of about $200 million.

The bequest from the widow of the founder of the McDonald's fast-food chain both shocked and delighted people at NPR's headquarters in Washington yesterday. It amounts to almost twice NPR's annual operating budget. "No one saw this coming," said one person.

[Big Giant Head]

DU is having a party.

[Qwinn]

*laugh* Great! Suck up the Leftie's money in useless, doomed enterprises - I'm all for it!

Qwinn

[kcvl]

Now we can CUT the money from the government.

[Big Giant Head]

Ahh, now the listener donations are really not needed, so they don't really have to listen to their concerns. Full propaganda ahead!

[Prime Choice]

I'm kinda surprised the recently departed didn't give it to another doomed enterprise...like "Salon."

[kcvl]

Former Padres owner Joan Kroc dies of brain cancer

Oct. 13, 2003
SportsLine.com wire reports

SAN DIEGO -- Joan Kroc, the billionaire philanthropist who became owner of the San Diego Padres after her husband's death in 1984, died at 75.

Kroc's donations created Notre Dame's Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in 1986 and the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice in 2001. She was also a major benefactor of the Carter Center in Atlanta.

Kroc contributed more than $90 million to the Salvation Army for a 12½-acre arts and recreation center in San Diego, said Maj. Cindy Foley, the center's administrator.

Born Aug. 27, 1928, in St. Paul, Minn., Kroc was a musician and music teacher for many years. She married Ray Kroc, who founded McDonald's in 1955, in 1969. It was her second marriage and his third.

[GeronL]

we really need to end government funding of these things. and I am boycotting McDonalds now.

[Big Giant Head]

I kind of inadvertently started a McD boycott due to lack of walkin' around money. I guess I'll just continue. They obviously don't need my $ nor does NPR.

[GeronL]

If they paid me walking around money I might grab a McChicken or a McMuffin

[loftyheights]

Precisely! This is how PBS/NPR should be funded in the first place. If people are willing to give this kind of cash there is no need for public funding. Now let's call it what it should have been called since way back when: Nicaragua Public Radio and Our Things Considered!

[VeniVidiVici]

Now we can CUT the money from the government

LOL! Exactly what I was thinking! We should reduce taxpayer money to NPR dollar for dollar.

[Big Giant Head]

No, I meant I quit walking around with money to frivously spend on burgers!

[A Citizen Reporter]

Poor McDonalds. It's never been the same company without Ray Kroc's vision, now 20 years gone.

[Big Giant Head]

Our Things Considered!

My daily dose of dreary news and dread. There is so little to listen to talk-radio-wise on my two hour drive, I listen to NPR. There's about ten different stations I can pick up with the same programming.

[Paleo Conservative]

What a Kroc!

[GeronL]

end all funding

[churchillbuff]

When Joan meets up with Ray at the big hamburger counter in the sky, he may have something to say about what she did with the money he made. Ray was a conservative Republican, if I remember correctly.

[BBell]

I agree. I can remember when I would go there because the bathrooms were clean and the food was consistant. Not anymore.

[Fledermaus]

No wonder McDonald's is losing money for the first time in history.

They bend over and take it from ever left wing group on the planet.

Face it, they committed suicide when they messed up their fries. Pure and simple. They pulled a "new Coke" move and wonder why they are losing money, closing stores and getting lower market share. It won't be long before Wendy's moves into BK's #2 position and eventually take over Ronald.

[weegee]

Let's make sure that NPR doesn't violate their 5013c "non-profit" charter with that money. They are prohibited from engaging in partisan activity and even their political speech is limited by that 501c3 tax status.