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Money Changes Everything for NPR
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| 3/19/6
| Jacques Steinberg
Posted on 03/19/2006 4:13:09 PM PST by Crackingham
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To: Crackingham
NPR doesn't have traditional advertising, of course, so it has always relied on the generosity of corporations (which typically receive understated acknowledgments on the air), foundations and listeners. Right. Those spots aren't advertisements.
But, don't they also get taxpayer's money?
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:17:40 PM PST
by
tsomer
To: Crackingham
Yet even more left wing ideologues to promote and disseminate ever more left wing baloney.
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:26:44 PM PST
by
garyhope
(In vino veritas. Ars longa, vita brevis, too brevis.)
To: Crackingham
Mr. Kernis, senior vice president of programming at NPR, needs to quit fantasizing, as many liberals are prone to do, regarding the scope of support and validation for NPR.
May I suggest he revise his remarks thusly,
"But suddenly, this outside force one woman was saying, 'Not only are you worth it, but we I want you to continue for decades doing this.' "
To: Crackingham
Joan Kroc should be ashamed of herself. The ultimate payback will be the repeated attacks on McDonald's and the food industry that her money will allow to be produced.
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:29:59 PM PST
by
ikka
To: Crackingham
May we all barf while the NPR asks for more $$$$$ and contibutions are solicited? Best to let the Kroc cash be quickly absorbed by "special reports" and the whole Commie broadcast lose its volume slowly (quicker the better) into the ground. Yuck! Anyone for a "burger"?
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:30:03 PM PST
by
Bret
To: Crackingham
as Taxpayers we should "defund" them.....
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:31:15 PM PST
by
Sub-Driver
(Unelect All NJ Politicians....)
To: Crackingham
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:32:38 PM PST
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Crackingham
If they are doing so well, then they won't need to get money from the government anymore. Pull the funding on NPR...
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:39:32 PM PST
by
sms
To: Crackingham
Are they still in the government trough, sucking up tax dollars, after this incredible bequest from Mrs. Kroc?
To: garyhope
Filthy capitalist dollars?? I thought NPR lefties never touch the stuff!
To: Crackingham
Joan B. Kroc, the widow of Ray A. Kroc, the man who built the McDonald's chain. Just before her death in 2003, she arranged to leave NPR a gift of about $230 million. Explains why you don't hear any stories bashing McDonald's for low wage jobs and not providing health insurance.
To: Crackingham
Thanks alot Ronald McDonald!!
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:49:51 PM PST
by
Sybeck1
To: Unmarked Package
"But suddenly, this outside force 'one woman' was saying, 'Not only are you worth it, but we 'I' want you to continue for decades doing this.' EXACTLY!!!
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posted on
03/19/2006 4:55:42 PM PST
by
Fawn
(My mind works like lightning. One brilliant flash and it is gone.)
To: elcid1970
One thing I hate about PBS and NPR, etc. is their constant begging for money and about how worthwhile it all is. I like the English comedies but hate al the other left wing bias and that nasty, left wing, anti American POS Bill Moyers. What a treasonous scumbag.
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posted on
03/19/2006 6:29:16 PM PST
by
garyhope
(In vino veritas. Ars longa, vita brevis, too brevis.)
To: Crackingham
NPR personalities are influential, but not necessarily in the way they intend.
I left the Democratic party after watching Nina Totenberg and other liberals speak on TV during the Clarence Thomas hearings.
Their summary of the hearings did not resemble what I had observed of the hearings. When I saw what they did to Clarence Thomas, I was ashamed to be a liberal.
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posted on
03/19/2006 6:32:56 PM PST
by
syriacus
(Would fewer Americans have died in Iraq if the French and Germans had helped depose Saddam?)
To: garyhope
LOL, Moyers is not only a scumbag, but a pompous, arrogant one as well. But as to English comedies, you of course know that it's only during "Begfest" that PBS airs programming thst a large number of people actually are interested in watching.
They're itching for those capitalist greenbacks, again.
To: Crackingham
For that reason, NPR representatives have begun active discussions with local stations about such matters as how they might share the revenues from corporate sponsorships of online programming. NPR management has also been involved in a labor dispute with unions representing some technical workers whose skills can be replicated by new technology. This paragraph was buried on Page 3 of the story. The local public radio stations have to pay exorbitant fees to run NPR's programs. And yeah, NPR is also trying to bust a union. Sounds like typical greedy corporate tactics to me!
To: elcid1970
PBS make millions of dollars in royalties from Barney and Big Bird. Their greed and hypocrisy is stunning.
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posted on
03/19/2006 6:49:27 PM PST
by
garyhope
(In vino veritas. Ars longa, vita brevis, too brevis.)
To: NYCVirago
The Minnesota legislature is holding up funding to Minnesota Public Broadcasting until it provides a listing of all employees earning over $100k/year. It appears the chairman rakes in about $500k (salary and perks).
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posted on
03/19/2006 8:02:03 PM PST
by
BW2221
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