NPR And PBS: Taxpayer Dollars Down The Drain

Toogood Reports ^ | May 17, 2002 | Chad Stafko

[Drango]

Public Broadcasting recieved $350 Million this year. Over 100 Republicans voted to fund it. To see how YOUR congress critter voted, check out my page by clicking on my name...

[Bounceback]

"...American taxpayers, regardless of their political persuasion, are forced to subsidize a radio and television network that, to put it mildly, slants to the left politically.<\i>

To put it mildly indeed.

[Random Access]

Some may argue that NPR and PBS provide benefits and programs that would not normally be produced by commercial radio or television networks.

I have created a 3 hour radio show, where I respond to callers using only arm-pit farts and burping. So far this has not drawn much interest from our local commerical radio stations. Do I have a future on NPR?

[talleyman]

Yes, if you can lean to the left while you do it.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Would that be an Algore interview ?

[Billthedrill]

Frankly, the Sesame Workshop (formerly the Children's Television Workshop) could fund the whole shebang itself if it wanted to. I quote "By the 1980s, many of the funds for CTW were generated from Sesame Street product sales, the Sesame Place amusement Park, and from Sesame Street Live, a touring company. CTW became an unhappy participant in the struggles over PBS funding in the mid-1990s when the financial success of Sesame Street was used as an example of why public funding was not needed to support educational children's programming."

Source: MBCNET Article

A friend of mine's son who is in the business reports that two of the three most expensive, modern, high-tech radio stations on the East coast belong to NPR, one in New York City and the other in Washington, D.C. Liberal propaganda on the public teat - that's what the Long March Through The Institutions was all about.

[GSWarrior]

But don't you know that making a profit is evil?????

[LisaFab]

Thanks for the info. Surprised to see JC Watts on the list.

[Drango]

A friend of mine's son who is in the business reports that two of the three most expensive, modern, high-tech radio stations on the East coast belong to NPR, one in New York City and the other in Washington, D.C.

As I understand it, KQED here in the Bay Area has better, more expensive equipment than NBC,CBS,ABC combined.

I'm able to recieve two Public Broadcast TV signals and 4 (or is it 5) radio signals. Your tax dollars at work!

[Constitution Day]

I do occasionally listen to NPR just to check out what the enemy is up to.
I'd like to think that I am hip enough to their message to prevent it from boring its socialistic contents into my head.

I have a little game play every time that Education Correspondent Claudio Sanchez comes on.
Almost without fail, he slips the word "Latino" into whatever his report is on.
The funny part is that, despite his impeccable English, his accent always shifts gears when he says "Latino".

Cheap thrills, I know. But I get a laugh out of it.

[opinionator]

... its television cousin, PBS, nearly always present a liberal tone in any program dealing with politics or the issues of the day.

Although I have seen some left leaning programs on PBS, I have also seen some excellent unbiased shows. The recent 'The Commanding Heights' is just one example.

[CrazyIvan]

Let's give PBS a little credit for cleaning up their act. I can remember when they were glorifying the environmental terrorism of Greenpeace and running down the US military constantly. They've gotten much more moderate around here(Iowa broadcast site)

[Jamten]

I would put it in this way. NPR produces pure socialist propaganda, no less. It is horrid that we are paying for this extreme propaganda with our taxpayers money. Did we not learn anything from the Soviet Union (Pravda) and all the other evil nations of the world which subscribe to various flavours of socialism? Borders,Language,Culture

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I accidentally bumped my radio dial the other day and was shocked to hear a sweet-sounding women protesting the Bush administration's cutting off funding for the terrorist fundraising group the Holyland Foundation. This women, a foundation spokesperson, claimed that they were simply helping the starving Palestinians and that they reorganized and now called themselves "Kindness USA". "This is NPR radio..."

[Jamten]

Here in the bay area the words "gay latino" always slips into the sentences when I pass by 88.5 MHz on the dial. It is amazing how a radio station can spend so much time talking about "gay latinos". Why do we have to listen to this garbage? I should also mention that I have nothing against gays in general or lantinos in general (as long as they speak English) but I am indeed against NPR/KQED which constantly promote their ways of living.

[Drango]

but I am indeed against NPR/KQED which constantly promote their ways of living.

Yeah KQED TV has a gay pride month during which they highlight an endless parade of films on either how tough/or how great it is to be gay. Little more than tax funded aggrandizement...

[SKI NOW]

"Frankly, the Sesame Workshop (formerly the Children's Television Workshop) could fund the whole shebang itself if it wanted to."

PBS axed Bob Villa for his endorsement of Sears and Craftman Tools. While at the same time airing these thirty minute commercials for Sesame Street merchandise. Don't even get me started on ADM. What a bunch of clymers.

[eleni121]

Where to begin...I do listen and occasionally watch both and I am amazed at the audacity and blatantly biased journalistic practices exhibited by both. Totally corrupted by the left and absolutely outrageous! Whether it's the socialist Daniel Schorr pontificating on W's lack of political skills or the bravery and "independence" shown by Fidel Castro or the Leftist Nina Tottenberg's "analysis" of Supreme court decisions (she always attacks the conservative right)- it is ceaseless and unrelenting left wing propaganda with not even the decency to present the other side. Never once have they presented the Prolife positions for example.

CUT THE FUNDING NOW!

PBS and NPR = Mockery of what the free press and journalism should be!

[sandydipper]

And didja know that the United Way provides legal defense for the indigent al quieda (sp.?) prisoners in Cuba and for illegal immigrants. I have stopped my payroll deduction to U.W.