Obscene Salaries Uncovered at NPR

[Finnguy]

This guy is underpaid compared to his private sector counterparts. The CEO of Viacom and Time Warner problem make 100 times as much as he does. And thats not an exaggeration.

 

[Stephanie]

This guy is underpaid compared to his private sector counterparts. The CEO of Viacom and Time Warner problem make 100 times as much as he does. And thats not an exaggeration.

AND?
Those CEO'S aren't sucking off TAXPAYERS monies for their salaries via the Federal Government.

 

[Truthmatters]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


what about oil handouts?

 

[Toro]

Fine, they are doing so good, let BIG BIRD fly on his own without OUR taxpayer money.

Did you apply that same thinking to the financial sector? Most conservatives went ape shit when proposals to restrict pay for TARP firms were floated.

please stay on topic.

It is on topic.

You're upset that people who receive taxpayer money get paid big money. Well, there is no bigger money than that paid in the financial sector, and the financial sector received taxpayer money. So someone gets paid $1 million in the public sector, that upsets you, but someone getting paid $10 million in the private sector who received taxpayer money does not? Were you 10x more morally outraged at the financial sector than you are at NPR?

 

[Stephanie]

Did you apply that same thinking to the financial sector? Most conservatives went ape shit when proposals to restrict pay for TARP firms were floated.

please stay on topic.

It is on topic.

You're upset that people who receive taxpayer money get paid big money. Well, there is no bigger money than that paid in the financial sector, and the financial sector received taxpayer money. So someone gets paid $1 million in the public sector, that upsets you, but someone getting paid $10 million in the private sector who received taxpayer money does not? Were you 10x more morally outraged at the financial sector than you are at NPR?

Just call your Rep and ask them to get behind DEFUNDING npr, pbs...OR DON'T.
sheesh

 

[Douger]

call your Reps. and ask them to DEFUND these people....NOW.

Media
March 03, 2011

Obscene Salaries Uncovered at NPR

By Jim DeMint



...The executives at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which distributes the taxpayer money allocated for public broadcasting to other stations, are also generously compensated. According to CPB's 2009 tax forms, President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison received $298,884 in reportable compensation and another $70,630 in other compensation from the organization and related organizations that year. That's practically a pittance compared to Kevin Klose, president emeritus of NPR, who received more than $1.2 million in compensation, according to the tax forms the nonprofit filed in 2009.

Today's media landscape is a thriving one with few barriers to entry and many competitors, unlike when CPB was created in 1967. In 2011, Americans have thousands of news, entertainment and educational programs to choose from that are available on countless television, radio and Web outlets.

Despite how accessible media has become to Americans over the years, funding for CPB has grown considerably. In 2001, the federal government appropriated $340 million for CPB. Last year it got $420 million. As Congress considers ways to close the $14 trillion deficit, cutting funding for the CPB has even been proposed by President Obama's bipartisan deficit reduction commission. Instead, Mr. Obama wants to increase CPB's funding to $451 million in his latest budget.

Meanwhile, highly successful, brand-name public programs like Sesame Street make millions on their own. "Sesame Street," for example, made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales from 2003-2006. Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 in compensation in 2008. With earnings like that, Big Bird doesn't need the taxpayers to help him compete against the Nickleodeon cable channel's Dora the Explorer.

from...
Obscene Salaries Uncovered at NPR - PBS - Fox Nation

LMMFAO
Gotta subsidize Big Bird to compete with the Mexican chick !!!

 

[Toro]

please stay on topic.

It is on topic.

You're upset that people who receive taxpayer money get paid big money. Well, there is no bigger money than that paid in the financial sector, and the financial sector received taxpayer money. So someone gets paid $1 million in the public sector, that upsets you, but someone getting paid $10 million in the private sector who received taxpayer money does not? Were you 10x more morally outraged at the financial sector than you are at NPR?

Just call your Rep and ask them to get behind DEFUNDING npr, pbs...OR DON'T.
sheesh

I'm sorry for typing more than three sentences. My apologies.

 

[Stephanie]

It is on topic.

You're upset that people who receive taxpayer money get paid big money. Well, there is no bigger money than that paid in the financial sector, and the financial sector received taxpayer money. So someone gets paid $1 million in the public sector, that upsets you, but someone getting paid $10 million in the private sector who received taxpayer money does not? Were you 10x more morally outraged at the financial sector than you are at NPR?

Just call your Rep and ask them to get behind DEFUNDING npr, pbs...OR DON'T.
sheesh

I'm sorry for typing more than three sentences. My apologies.

whatever.

 

[asterism]

Did you apply that same thinking to the financial sector? Most conservatives went ape shit when proposals to restrict pay for TARP firms were floated.

please stay on topic.

It is on topic.

You're upset that people who receive taxpayer money get paid big money. Well, there is no bigger money than that paid in the financial sector, and the financial sector received taxpayer money. So someone gets paid $1 million in the public sector, that upsets you, but someone getting paid $10 million in the private sector who received taxpayer money does not? Were you 10x more morally outraged at the financial sector than you are at NPR?

I most certainly was. Probably 100x more outraged. I've never sent a letter nor even mentioned NPR or the CPB to a Congressman. I raised holy hell over the financial bailout, even though it was just pissing in the wind.

 

[Flagwavrusa]

call your Reps. and ask them to DEFUND these people....NOW.

Media
March 03, 2011

Obscene Salaries Uncovered at NPR

By Jim DeMint



...The executives at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which distributes the taxpayer money allocated for public broadcasting to other stations, are also generously compensated. According to CPB's 2009 tax forms, President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison received $298,884 in reportable compensation and another $70,630 in other compensation from the organization and related organizations that year. That's practically a pittance compared to Kevin Klose, president emeritus of NPR, who received more than $1.2 million in compensation, according to the tax forms the nonprofit filed in 2009.

Today's media landscape is a thriving one with few barriers to entry and many competitors, unlike when CPB was created in 1967. In 2011, Americans have thousands of news, entertainment and educational programs to choose from that are available on countless television, radio and Web outlets.

Despite how accessible media has become to Americans over the years, funding for CPB has grown considerably. In 2001, the federal government appropriated $340 million for CPB. Last year it got $420 million. As Congress considers ways to close the $14 trillion deficit, cutting funding for the CPB has even been proposed by President Obama's bipartisan deficit reduction commission. Instead, Mr. Obama wants to increase CPB's funding to $451 million in his latest budget.

Meanwhile, highly successful, brand-name public programs like Sesame Street make millions on their own. "Sesame Street," for example, made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales from 2003-2006. Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 in compensation in 2008. With earnings like that, Big Bird doesn't need the taxpayers to help him compete against the Nickleodeon cable channel's Dora the Explorer.

from...
Obscene Salaries Uncovered at NPR - PBS - Fox Nation

Hypocrites on the Left on the one hand wag their finger all day long at 'greedy capitalists' and with the other in the cookie jar grabbing everything they can get hold of just like any wall street banker. They probably pay their staff barely enough to live on to boot. Reminds me of the communists in the old Soviet Union condemning exploitative capitalism while they enjoyed power and privilege beyond belief. Meanwhile the masses stood in line for hours to get handed some stale bread to avoid starvation and cheap vodka to numb their senses.

 

[MaggieMae]

Did you apply that same thinking to the financial sector? Most conservatives went ape shit when proposals to restrict pay for TARP firms were floated.

please stay on topic.

It is on topic.

You're upset that people who receive taxpayer money get paid big money. Well, there is no bigger money than that paid in the financial sector, and the financial sector received taxpayer money. So someone gets paid $1 million in the public sector, that upsets you, but someone getting paid $10 million in the private sector who received taxpayer money does not? Were you 10x more morally outraged at the financial sector than you are at NPR?

Out of rep for you Toro, so this will have to do

 

[Ravi]

Toro wins the thread.

 

[xotoxi]

When you make your living by sucking from the government teat, you want to get all the milk you can swallow... Same principal here. However, in the light of the government's eyes, they are not a problem because they are not "fat cats" raping the public on Wall Street.

How much government teat milk did the "fat cats" of Wall Street suckle in 2008-09?

 

[xotoxi]

Fine, they are doing so good, let BIG BIRD fly on his own without OUR taxpayer money.

Did you apply that same thinking to the financial sector? Most conservatives went ape shit when proposals to restrict pay for TARP firms were floated.

please stay on topic.

Translation: Please don't bring that up because it makes me look like an idiot.

 

[xotoxi]

This guy is underpaid compared to his private sector counterparts. The CEO of Viacom and Time Warner problem make 100 times as much as he does. And thats not an exaggeration.

AND?
Those CEO'S aren't sucking off TAXPAYERS monies for their salaries via the Federal Government.

True. But the bank CEOs did.

 

[Stephanie]

Did you apply that same thinking to the financial sector? Most conservatives went ape shit when proposals to restrict pay for TARP firms were floated.

please stay on topic.

Translation: Please don't bring that up because it makes me look like an idiot.

whatever, like it had a LOT to do with the topic of DEFUNDING npr.
go play in traffic

 

[Stephanie]

Toro wins the thread.

oh brother.
toro won
toro won
toro won something or other in rambling about crap besides what the thread was about, NPR
give him a prize.

 

[JBeukema]

I assume the OP also demands we end subsidies for oil companies?

 

[JBeukema]

the obscene salaries are the ones paid to congress and the others...

Who decided letting Congress set their own pay was a good idea?

 

[JBeukema]

When you go to work do you want to make as much money as you can? I do? Can you really blame them for getting all they can while they can? I'm sure there are days when you say to yourself, "I can't believe I'm getting paid for this?" Why do peole always complain about other people salaries?

It's one thing to be paid a high salary by a private individual or company and quite another to expect the taxpayers to foot that kind of bill.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/business/04bptax.html