National Public Radio Gets Record Gift, Washington Post Says [$200 MIL]

Bloomberg Terminal | 11/6/03 | Chris Peterson

[BunnySlippers]

National Public Radio Gets Record Gift, Washington Post Says

Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- National Public Radio was left $200 million by Joan Kroc, the widow of the founder of the McDonald's Corp. fast-food chain, the Washington Post reported, citing unidentified radio station officials.

It was the biggest-ever donation to the non-profit broadcaster, the newspaper said.

The gift equals almost two years of Washington-based NPR's annual budget, the Post said.

Kroc died of brain cancer at the age of 75 on Oct. 12; although she supported her local NPR affiliate, she had no charitable links with the broadcaster, the paper said.

[BunnySlippers]

I've had enough of their squishy burgers anyway.

[Always Right]

National Public Radio was left $200 million by Joan Kroc, the widow of the founder of the McDonald's Corp. fast-food chain, the Washington Post reported, citing unidentified radio station officials.

Great, a perfect time to stop publicly funding this voice of the far-left extremists.

[eureka!]

Cool. Now we can cut public funding...

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Why would the wife of a capitalist donate money to socialist liberals who are seeking to destroy her husband's gains through "anti-fat" litigation?

[Moose4]

Good for her. Now Congress can completely cut off NPR's taxpayer funding, and the anti-American lefties there can live off their hamburger money instead of stealing it from patriotic Americans.

}:-)4

[shteebo]

So they won't be needing any Federal funding, right?

[cwb]

Great...can we now take them off the public dole?

[NormsRevenge]

McDonald's -- squishy burgers

NPR -- squishy brains

BumP

[WinOne4TheGipper]

NO!! SAY IT AIN'T SO!!! I guess I'll just have to eat at Burger King!!!

[mrsmith]

NPR: "Cholesterol for the brain"

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Just teasting HTML

[BunnySlippers]

You'd think she could have thought of dozens, if not hundreds of more worthy causes. She must have held them in hiugh esteem. Arf.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think you're on to something.

[anniegetyourgun]

Because she is a socialist.

[irgbar-man]

NPR is a Kroc, allright.

[blackdog]

NPR executives will piss away that 200 million faster than a hot knife thru butter. New SUV's, conferences in tax haven nations, a lease with exec-jet, and when there is about a few grand left they will buy some new portraits of themselves(the o'l dead white guys hallway).

[blackdog]

200 billion served.

$200 million wasted.......

[eureka!]

Re#17 Yep. OPM's (other people's money) means little to the left. Hopefully, Kroc unknowingly left as a trustee of the trust and grant a closet right winger who will challenge NPR's slant. Oh, to dream....

[moodyskeptic]

I'm confident that NPR will decline the offer from the world's most greedy corporate animal killers. McDonald's guilt money is too tainted to accept.

Isn't it?