This was taken from the very link she provided regarding federal funding which, as you can see above, she *claims* they do not recieive.
Posted on 10/25/2010 12:15:52 PM PDT by South40
Dear xxxxxx,
Late Wednesday evening we gave Juan Williams notice that we’ve terminated his contract as a Senior News Analyst for NPR News. We didn’t make this decision lightly or without regret. Juan has been a valuable contributor to NPR and public radio for many years.
However, his remarks on The O’Reilly Factor this past Monday violated our ethics guidelines. Unfortunately, this has occurred several times in other media. Our decision to end our contractual relationship with Juan has come after repeated conversations and warnings about some of his public comments. This was a difficult, but principled decision.
We’ve been contacted by listeners who have passionately agreed with our decision, as well as those who have disagreed with it, with equal conviction. We hear you both and respect your perspectives. At the same time, we believe that the public is better served by NPR holding firm to the values and standards that have guided us for many years.
As some listeners have also asked for more details about our funding, you can find a detailed overview of our funding on our website in our “About” section: http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/ Of note, and as is explained in that site, NPR, Inc. has received no direct operating support from the federal government since 1983.
I recognize that this decision has sparked a strong debate in the blogosphere and elsewhere, and that you have a firm position on the matter. While we stand by our policy, we also regret that we were compelled to take the actions that we did.
Sincerely
Dana Davis Rehm
Senior Vice President, Marketing, Communications, and External Relations
You of course realize that these execs are smarter and know more than you and therefore the condescending tone/arrogance can be excused /s
Has anyone looked at some of the comments NPR liberals have made in the past? Comments like wishing death on conservatives and their grandkids, thinking the world would be better if 4 million Christians quit existing... etc. No one got fired for those comments. And if Juan has said he felt a little scared walking around a Tea Party, they would have given him an award.
NPR has shown their true colors - it's time to de-fund the liars.
This statement is disingenuous, at best.
I took a quick review of the financial statements of Corporation For Public Broadcasting (CPB), NPR and one local station, WOSU.
My quick review (info. subject to change) is that the CPB received most all of its $484 million in revenue from the Feds in 2009.
CPB paid all of the $484 million to local stations or for programming seen on local stations such as WOSU.
WOSU received approximately $1.9 million in 2009 from CBC (mostly) and other Federal grants (much smaller amount). State and local governments contributed $1.1 million and I assume this is mostly from Ohio State University. NPR received $65 million from member stations, such as WOSU, in 2009. Also, NPR received about $15 million from CPB and may have received more from the local stations, but I cannot immediately tell from the financial statements.
So, what does this mean:
Even though money is fungible and cannot be traced directly, it is clear that money from the Feds flows through CPB, money flows to local stations and NPR from CPB, and money flows from local stations to NPR.
It is an incestuous relationship and any claim by NPR that they do not receive Federal money is trumped by the fact that they receive the benefit of money from the Feds that flows through CPB and the local stations. Further, NPR would not exist but for the money pumped into these organizations by the government.
FREE SPECTRUM!
The Federal government under the Roosevelt Administration allocated 88.1 megahertz to 91.9 megahertz to non-profit broadcasting. This spectrum was deliberately removed from visibly commercial use. Radio stations broadcasting in this spectrum may not sell advertising time.
These stations were not worth much money until the 1960s, when Japanese transistor radios got cheap enough to create a large audience for FM radio. FM signals are cleaner than AM radio. They are high fidelity. They soon became stereo.
Any station operating in this spectrum receives a subsidy. The value of this subsidy is whatever money the station would bring at an open auction. If these frequencies were sold off, once and for all, to investors, not one of these stations would be able to buy back its frequency. Commercial stations that most people want to listen to would buy them.
These stations are used mainly by college radio stations and Christian stations. At least one college station in every region broadcasts NPR in the afternoon.
The only way that NPR stays on the air is through this ancient subsidy. Without it, NPR would go off the air. For good.
Yes, you will, and you don't get a choice about it. They get taxpayer dollars.
Yes, their ideas are right out of the sewer of radicals.
They are unAmercian Freudian-Marxists by ALL dictionary standards and it is imperative that we end their monopoly on the PC—allowed speech which they have impose on our airwaves and at all public-funded universities and schools and many foundations, including most media.
The people have to demand all these organizations quit the brainwashing and the lying and suppression of truth and the ban on idea of God-given rights in the public square.
Aggressively defensive, imo.
Beyond defunding CPB/NPR: I believe they are specially chartered by Congress as the ‘national’ communications network. It’s the same sort of thing that major league baseball enjoys. That charter should be revoked. Perhaps they could rename the entities “Soros Communications.”
your right!!!
but they will never see a donation from my check book
I don't think liberals would like it if Rush was put in charge of NPR and folks were fired for saying something liberal.
Thanks for posting the truth...
The airways should not be allowed to “brainwash” and lie. Ideas have to based in truth—yes, opinions are always allowed—but the left is forcing people who have opinions like Dr. Laura to be destroyed and silenced. They are trying to silence Beck and have silenced Wilders and Savage in some areas. The Constitution DEFENDS the freedom of speech no matter how obnoxious.
This control should never be allowed in a free society. The left is silencing too many people on college campuses and in the media, if they don’t like the message, no matter if it is the truth. On PC campuses they have no tolerance of Christian ideas and accept and allow obscenities and debased plays. Obscenity was never given a platform by the Founders. We saw government controlled media in action with Juan Williams. Free Press is the No.1 necessity for a free America.
Government controlled media should NEVER be allowed. It is only agitprop for the elites in government and can be used against the people. The power of the media to form ideas is very dangerous to a Republic when the elites in charge are corrupt which power tends to always do.
Juan should sue, then during Dicovery have NPR release ALL the letters asking for ‘permission’, if any.
This was taken from the very link she provided regarding federal funding which, as you can see above, she *claims* they do not recieive.
NPR is NOT the local member stations and so Schiller’s fudge isn’t technically false. Keep in mind NPR doesn’t broadcast. They are a producer and distributor of programs. They are separate entities and so NPR is correct in a very narrow and disingenuous sense. It’s a shell game.
The reality is they are one and the same to the average listener.
NPR’s [spokeswoman Dana Davis] Rehm warned that if Congress cut off funding, “stations across the country would be hurt by that and would have to make up that balance elsewhere. In many places that would be difficult to do.”
She said that threats to cut off funding are “inappropriate” but that NPR takes them seriously and is talking with its member stations. “Stations as a whole are not happy this is happening at this time,” she said. “They’re in a difficult situation.”
I know how liberals love to parse words. But I told her I supported the defunding. She responded by saying they don't get and simultaneously released a statement condemning the idea of defunding. That was not parsing words, it was a lie.
Ir Rush had lied this outrageously, it would be in every newspaper... tomorrow.
That said, NPR needs to be de-funded. It's outrageous that in this day and age they would be receiving tax dollars when there's thousands of media outlets. Why one political party would be able to control the content of 'public' radio and TV is beyond me...
Juan’s better off. Now he has experienced the hypocrisy of the rabid left. He will distance himself and play out a nice spot at FNC and make buckets of money for this...the wonderful result of the remaining free market.
What has and is happening is exactly what should happen!
As have many leftists who like him. I know many liberals who are not happy with his firing. It's always good to see rats turn on each other. :-)
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