Posted on 03/13/2011 1:16:30 PM PDT by Drango
Enables of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CPB are coming out of the woodwork to defend the taxpayer largess that they have been feeding from. Most of this centers on NPR and the arguments seem to be that: first they aren’t biased and second defunding CPB will only hurt the rural stations. Seriously.
Lost in the noise is that CPB also funds via your tax dollars, other public broadcasting entities such as PRI and Pacifica. Pacifica is the most amusing as they are staunch, avowed communists and hate capitalism and Republicans. They are also very urban. Berkeley, LA, NY, Houston, DC. Rural and very balanced indeed.
How much do CPB records http://cpb.org/annualreports/2009/ show Pacifica got in 2009?
KPFA, Berkeley $451,000
KPFK, LA $382,000
WPFW, DC $238,000
KPFT, Houston $160,000
WBAI, NY $359,000
A trip to the Pacifica web site is worse than visiting DU. Disinfect your browser and wash your ears out with bleach if you visit.
You can’t get more Commie than Pacifica, even more Commie than if Marx and Lenin were broadcasting directly.
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If the GOP can’t get this simple thing done, what hope is there for the deficit?
Defund now.
Defunding NPR, PBS and any other broadcasting entity that receives taxpayer support should be a no-brainer. Just do it....and let the lefties whine. Very few taxpayers will care.
But Pacifica also has stations run by volunteers with the money actually being funneled into the far leftwing Pacifica Foundation.
It appears that something like 90% or more of the CPB grants are going to the big city stations.
Surprise, surprise the NPR and CPB have lied to us!!!!!
http://cpb.org/annualreports/2009/images/stories/docs/cpb_ga2009.pdf
Alabama got $2.9 miilion in CPB grants. Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery got $2.4 million of those grants.
So much for the NPR story that Federal funding is needed for the rural stations!!!!!!!
http://cpb.org/annualreports/2009/images/stories/docs/cpb_ga2009.pdf
Georgia got $7.4 million and $6.7 million stays in Atlanta.
So much for the argument that federal funds go to rural areas.
“If the GOP can’t get this simple thing done, what hope is there for the deficit?
Defund now.”
So true.
How much does AUSTIN TX get? Oh, please, cut Austin first!!
KAZI? They don’t currently get any CPB funding, they are an all volunteer station if I read the documents correctly.
No, the call sign is different. KU—something.
Joan Kroc, widow of McDonald’s owner Ray Crock, left NPR $200 million when she died in 2003. NPR said even then that with that money, they didn’t need public funds. They have so much, they fund other hard cord enemies of United States, such as the fifth column station Pacific Radio.
Joan Kroc, widow of McDonald’s owner Ray Crock, left NPR $200 million when she died in 2003. NPR said even then that with that money, they didn’t need public funds. They have so much, they fund other hard cord enemies of United States, such as the fifth column station Pacific Radio.
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