CAIR.
That’s one giant release of flatus translated to electronic communications...
By the same standards, Nina Tottenburg should have been fired many times over.
No more tax dollars to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
With other media? What do YOUR ethics guidelines have to do with OTHER media who he works with? Juan needs to sue these bastards.
I believe GM is one of their big supporters
I got one too, after sending them a nasty e-mail about what a loyal listener and dedicated liberal I was who’d never listen to NPR again!
Of note, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting the shell company that receives the money has a revenue stream of $2.85 BILLION. 40% of that or $1.1 BILLION is TAX revenue.
Much of that went to PBS-TV side of the house but about $25% went to the public radio system. The DIRECT funding is insignificant but the INDIRECT amount isn't. Stop laundering your funds, you're making ENRON look good. And yes I have backup
http://www.cpb.org/aboutcpb/financials/appropriation/justification_11-13.pdf
Notice that the people who agreed PASSIONATELY AGREED while those who disagreed were not so PASSIONATE.
No slant to this article is there?????????????????????????
Apparently their “principles” also involve publicly calling into question the sanity of someone they wrongfully terminated. The NPR CEO is as unprofessional as it gets & she should be terminated, but that won’t happen because their “principles” are trash.
And Juan was the only African American working there. Looks like racial discrimination doesn’t it.
As in Animal House, doing Belushi -> cough, cough - bull$h!t !!!!!!
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.
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.”
Juan should sue, then during Dicovery have NPR release ALL the letters asking for ‘permission’, if any.
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.”
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!
Bull. It's all about one thing and one thing only:
FOX NEWS
They HATE it. They HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE "FAUX" NEWS!
I have never seen so MUCH displaced anger against one television network as I have seen from Leftists regarding Fox News. It is pathological. That's right; insane.
I'm trying to figure out why. Fox has so many liberals on it: Geraldo Riveria, Greta Van Sustern, Shep Smith, Bob Betchel, Alan Colmes, Juan Williams, Mara Liasson, Kristen Powers... The number of liberals is as long as the number of conservatives!!!!
Is their outrage based on Fox calling itself "Fair and Balanced", as it illustrates how ALL THE OTHERS are NOT?
(Rhetorical question that has "Yes!" as the obvious answer.)
But seriously folks, they HATE Fox News and they HATE Fox News Viewers. They want the dumb hicks watching Fox to die. Since they don't have the power to do that, they took it out on Juan.