Posted on 11/14/2016 5:07:32 AM PST by far sider
I listened to NPR this morning coming to work.
The hagiography of Obama and the hate for Trump and his supporters is disgusting. Will my tax dollars continue to pay for this in 2017???
Didn’t someone die and leave NPR millions and millions of dollars several years ago?
Why do they need taxpayer money? Have fundraisers like PBS does.
NPR and PBS are unnecessary and outdated. If their shows have value one of 200 cable channels will buy and broadcast them... Actually PBS should have been disbanded when DirecTV and DishNetwork sprang up around 1995 as at that time there was no longer any part of the US where you couldn’t get news and information.
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
Agreed. NPR/PBS should be funded by viewers/donors, not by productive taxpayers. The same is true for the National Endowment for the Arts/Humanities. They are small expenses, but they are outside the proper scope of federal spending. Zero out the funding.
lol....I thought it was just my radio!
Long and lonesome stretch of road.
NPR hosts sound smarmy and nasal. I always pictured NPR hosts with their noses pointed up in the air in a display of snootiness and smugness. Their bumper music blows,
Yes, defund NPR, etc. I do not want my tax dollars going to them or PBS or any other obviously political machines pretending to be 501(c)3s.
The cultural nazis of the left are now showing their true colors. Lawlessness, bigotry and intolerance are the hallmarks.
Time to go after the AP, AOL, NBC, Google, CNN, Hollywood, Yahoo, et al for fomenting and encouraging the violent overthrow of the government.
Saturday Night Live used to do skits about NPR.
If NPR/PBS were de-funded, they would last about as long as Air America.
However, consider that for continued funding, NPR/PBS was required to present conservative views and opinions, there may be a value in liberal deprogramming.
Just think of all the libs getting to hear Alex Jones.
Probably Joan Kroc of McDonald’s
Defunding NPR needs to be a priority.
During Wednesday through Friday of last week I drove from the Albany NY capital district area (we live in Cohoes) to the NYS southern tier/finger lakes area and back due to a death in my sister in law’s family.
I took two different routes - to go out I went more southerly through Binghamton and then returned via the more northerly route through central New York via the thruway.
My CD player is broken so I was forced to rely on my car radio. When put on scan, there were very few radio stations in the rural areas that came in without static except! my radio scan feature ALWAYS found an NPR - (they are seeded throughout the state - the one that came in was usually via Ithaca - hippie valley- Cornell area).
The reason I am going into perhaps too much detail is to make the point that I could not escape hearing NPR as I never have the local NPR on at home. Luckily we have separate classical music station.
The programming was beyond disgusting bird dogging/dog whistling against Trump. Much of it was to influence the audience by pure fear mongering. The Fresh Air segment (or whatever they called it) was going to do a segment on how Trump will cause 20 million people to suddenly have no health care coverage or some such thing when in truth they have no idea how this will play out! They were speculating and twisting facts and making up scenarios out of whole cloth and passing it off as “news”.
Our tax dollars spouting propaganda! Alan Chartak sounded psychotic.
Sorry to rant - clearly I am extremely PO’d after just experiencing first hand the reach of their propaganda funded by US!
They’re pulling in less money.People have alternatives..and stations find listeners are downloading podcasts of NPR and PRI shows but not sending $ to stations.
Corporations give money as well, probably tax deductible.A 2008 list of some of these included car companies, movie studios and even “Fox Broadcasting”.
For PBS Sesame St was and is a huge moneymaker but they now put first run episodes on HBO with PBS airings 9 months later.
“Stale Air with Terry Gross-me-out”—Laura Ingraham
As well as PBS, Planned Parenthood and sanctuary cities.
Oh, no, PBS radio, delivered in that soporific monotone that puts me to sleep every time I hear it.
Yes.
She left NPR $200,000,000.
Why do they need taxpayer funding?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1494600
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