Obscene Salaries Uncovered at NPR

[JBeukema]

so now we hate people making money.....OOOKKKK you fucking cons are retards.

When people "make money" by confiscating the money of others via taxes you're damn right I'm against it.

What about when they make it by confiscating other nations' resources at the end of CIA rifles?

 

[Stephanie]

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

assume all you want.

 

[Samson]

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.

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Wow. All them EVUL Rich Peeples making personal profit off of public broadcasting.

Quelle Surprise.

I'm sure they live in mud huts, and contribute most of their salary back to Ernie and Bert.

 

[Toro]

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.

I'll take $1.

 

[JBeukema]

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

Hi, you have received -88 reputation points from Stephanie.
Reputation was given for this post.

 

[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.

I'll take $1.

I'll give ya 50cnts. all I got.

 

[JBeukema]

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.

I'll take $1.

first I need you to send me 100 dollars to cover the cost of the wire transfer, then i can send you one-million dollars from my Kenyan account

 

[xotoxi]

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

You sound mildly butthurt.

 

[Samson]

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.

I'll take $1.

Am I supposed to stuff your G-string?

 

[AquaAthena]

I think they should be paid as much as they can just as any person in any job. I do think our tax dollars should not be supporting them.

 

[MaggieMae]

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.

What you don't seem to get is chipping away at small shit is stupid when there are much bigger fish to fry. In that regard, we have criticized your lack of seeing the big picture by thinking elimination of a few million from NPR/PBS funding will amount to nothing more than a hill of beans.

 

[MaggieMae]

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

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

To derail the thread even further (sorry, Steph), if Congress allows the government to get shut down, that means they won't get paid so it's not going to happen. Congress, both parties, continue to illustrate that their "work" consists of 99% grandstanding.

 

[MaggieMae]

I think they should be paid as much as they can just as any person in any job. I do think our tax dollars should not be supporting them.

Right now, they're still classified as PUBLIC SERVICE broadcasters. Until that changes, they will continue to be partially subsidized.

 

[Toro]

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.

I'll take $1.

Am I supposed to stuff your G-string?

You can't.

Aqua can ...