Posted on 03/17/2011 4:09:27 AM PDT by tobyhill
You hear him at the end of nearly every NPR broadcast.
The host wraps up the news. And then on comes the mystery voice, reading the underwriting credits. The voice utters authoritarian decrees, postulating that "Silk is soy" or asserting that "ADM" is "supermarket to the world."
And then there's the payoff line, as the steady elocution of the mystery voice waxes ever so slightly on a solitary word.
"This is NPR. National Public Radio."
If Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) gets his way in the House of Representatives today, the mystery voice may have to alter his patter.
"I want NPR to stand for National Private Radio," says Lamborn. "They can and should stand on their own two feet."
Lamborn is the chief sponsor of a measure to ban tax dollars from flowing to NPR. In addition, the legislation prohibits public radio stations from using federal dollars they receive from the Corporation from Public Broadcasting to pay NPR dues. The bill would also bar individual public stations from using federal money to purchase programming.
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.blogs.foxnews.com ...
Lamborn is my Rep, and I stand behind him 100%. He is one of the true conservatives in Congress. God bless you, Doug.
Defund National Propaganda Radio and the Propaganda Broadcast System NOW!!!
More than a dozen WGBH honchos at PBS’ taxpayer-subsidized flagship station are raking in upwards of $200,000 a year while toiling in the lap of a luxurious $85 million multimedia palace dubbed the “Taj Mahal” that boasts a 200-seat amphitheater, state-of-the-art recording studio and Hamburg-Steinway grand piano. Ex-WGBH president Henry Becton Jr. — now the station’s vice-chairman — made $160,873 in total compensation for working just 24 hours a week.
Defund NPR - heartless!
I don’t want any more of my tax money going to these lefty arrogant elitists. I want to see them homeless on the side of a street or working as clerk at a liquor store in East St. Louis, Memphis, Detroit, or New Orleans. They need to see the real world.
—WGBH hasn’t paid taxes on their new building to the city of
Boston since they moved in, in 2007
—Recently they shoehorned in a new contract over objection of workers who called the tactic “right-wing”...WGBH? :)
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2011/03/16/wgbh_imposes_rejected_contract/
>>“We hope WGBH management steps back from its right-wing attempt to crush collective bargaining at its Boston headquarters, and instead, returns to the table to work on a truly equitable contract we can all live with,’’ said Jordan Weinstein, president of The Association of Employees of the Educational Foundation, Communications Workers of America, Local 1300, which represents 280 production workers, editors, producers, writers, and marketing employees.
“Public” radio, or “listener supported” is fine—voluntary
donations by individuals, corporations, and foundations. It’s taxpayer-funding that’s the problem (and some of those foundations, like public universities, do take some taxpayer money too). Confiscatory taxation. I don’t want to give? Tough, I’m forced to.
Boston has an easy listening station, WJIB AM 740, which is licensed as commercial but the crunchy-granola owner/operator refuses to run ads (at one time he used to run spots of himself saying, “cut up your credit cards. Most of the companies are evil.”) He gets expense money by doing brief fundraising drives. But here is the key: that’s voluntary contributions (not tax deductible). Nobody is forcing you to give to his station. But NPR _does_...
Yes but what did the patrons of those liquor stores do to deserve the bad service and attitude of these elitist cretins?
Great stats. Thanks.
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