I tuned in to NPR today for two hours. It was great fun.

[Mashmont]

I was driving around town today doing errands for a couple of hours and tuned in to NPR to see what they would say about Congressional recission of $1.1 billion to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

They griped the whole time, lamenting how the money had been promised, but pulled back, and that rural stations might have to close and how areas wouldn’t get disaster warnings anymore. They said the big city stations would do OK, but the ones in the boonies might have to go under, and how it is the first time in the 55 year history they didn’t get government money, and Trump is a no-good SOB. It was sweet to listen to, frankly.

They did mention that Trump thought NPR was biased, but they said NPR is denying that. (Well, that’s proof, isn’t it?). So they did two contradictory things; they boo-hooed about maybe having to cut things, but vowed to fight on.

So I have some questions and observations for NPR.

• Before the cuts, they were saying government funding constitutes only 1% of NPR’s budget, so it’s really not that much. My question is: Great. If it’s not that much, shouldn’t they be able to easily make it up in donations?
• NPR laments about rural areas being hit hard. Funny, leftwingers always disparage red state hicksvilles any other time.
• If bigger NPR cities will do OK, but rural stations might be shut down, why don’t the big stations share with the smaller rural ones?
• Since NPR vows to fight on against the rednecks who voted for Trump, maybe they will prove they never needed government funding in the first place. So I encourage NPR to knock themselves out fundraising.
• Real businesses have to tighten the belt all the time. Welcome to the real world, NPR. Now you have to make it on your own. If your product is as great as advertised, you should get enough in donations.
• Might it ever occur to NPR that these cuts would have never happened if they hadn’t turned so blatantly far left? . Hint; If Marxist bilge doesn’t sell, maybe you need to get rid of your Marxist bilge. Nothing like the free market, eh?
• NPR still hasn’t learned its lesson. As I listened in today , the underlying and sometimes overt theme to every story is STILL that Trump is an evil crazy bastard. You did this to yourself, NPR. All you had to do was report straight news and straight features.
• That crap about NPR being the only news source for rural areas is hogwash. Who the hell tunes to NPR for weather information?

Feature story today: A college professor’s trip to the depths of the Arctic Ocean 5000 meters down to find unique methane-eating worms. On the face of it, it sounds pretty interesting, right? But no. They had to throw in women empowerment angle (the professor was a woman, succeeded in a man’s world, was able to get her way over the male crew, etc.), and they had to include that she was a lesbo and interviewed her female life partner. I mean, why add all that? Just do the story. STOP PLAYING THE LEFTWING AGENDA ANGLE ON EVERY SINGLE STORY!.

 

[Stuartbirdan2]

I was driving around town today doing errands for a couple of hours and tuned in to NPR to see what they would say about Congressional recission of $1.1 billion to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

They griped the whole time, lamenting how the money had been promised, but pulled back, and that rural stations might have to close and how areas wouldn’t get disaster warnings anymore. They said the big city stations would do OK, but the ones in the boonies might have to go under, and how it is the first time in the 55 year history they didn’t get government money, and Trump is a no-good SOB. It was sweet to listen to, frankly.

They did mention that Trump thought NPR was biased, but they said NPR is denying that. (Well, that’s proof, isn’t it?). So they did two contradictory things; they boo-hooed about maybe having to cut things, but vowed to fight on.

So I have some questions and observations for NPR.

• Before the cuts, they were saying government funding constitutes only 1% of NPR’s budget, so it’s really not that much. My question is: Great. If it’s not that much, shouldn’t they be able to easily make it up in donations?
• NPR laments about rural areas being hit hard. Funny, leftwingers always disparage red state hicksvilles any other time.
• If bigger NPR cities will do OK, but rural stations might be shut down, why don’t the big stations share with the smaller rural ones?
• Since NPR vows to fight on against the rednecks who voted for Trump, maybe they will prove they never needed government funding in the first place. So I encourage NPR to knock themselves out fundraising.
• Real businesses have to tighten the belt all the time. Welcome to the real world, NPR. Now you have to make it on your own. If your product is as great as you advertised, you should get enough in donations.
• Might it ever occur to NPR that these cuts would have never happened if they hadn’t turned so blatantly far left? . Hint; If Marxist bilge doesn’t sell, maybe you need to get rid of your Marxist bilge. Nothing like the free market, eh?
• NPR still hasn’t learned its lesson. As I listened in today , the underlying and sometimes overt theme to every story is STILL that Trump is an evil crazy bastard. You did this to yourself, NPR. All you had to do was report straight news and straight features.
• That crap about NPR being the only news source for rural areas is hogwash. Who the hell tunes to NPR for weather information?

Feature story today: A college professor’s trip to the depths of the Arctic Ocean 5000 meters down to find unique methane-eating worms. On the face of it, it sounds pretty interesting, right? But no. They had to throw in women empowerment angle (the professor was a woman, succeeded in a man’s world, was able to get her way over the male crew, etc.), and they had to include that she was a lesbo and interviewed her female life partner. I mean, why add all that? Just do the story. STOP PLAYING THE LEFTWING AGENDA ANGLE ON EVERY SINGLE STORY!.

They are still on the air

 

[Stuartbirdan2]

I was driving around town today doing errands for a couple of hours and tuned in to NPR to see what they would say about Congressional recission of $1.1 billion to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

They griped the whole time, lamenting how the money had been promised, but pulled back, and that rural stations might have to close and how areas wouldn’t get disaster warnings anymore. They said the big city stations would do OK, but the ones in the boonies might have to go under, and how it is the first time in the 55 year history they didn’t get government money, and Trump is a no-good SOB. It was sweet to listen to, frankly.

They did mention that Trump thought NPR was biased, but they said NPR is denying that. (Well, that’s proof, isn’t it?). So they did two contradictory things; they boo-hooed about maybe having to cut things, but vowed to fight on.

So I have some questions and observations for NPR.

• Before the cuts, they were saying government funding constitutes only 1% of NPR’s budget, so it’s really not that much. My question is: Great. If it’s not that much, shouldn’t they be able to easily make it up in donations?
• NPR laments about rural areas being hit hard. Funny, leftwingers always disparage red state hicksvilles any other time.
• If bigger NPR cities will do OK, but rural stations might be shut down, why don’t the big stations share with the smaller rural ones?
• Since NPR vows to fight on against the rednecks who voted for Trump, maybe they will prove they never needed government funding in the first place. So I encourage NPR to knock themselves out fundraising.
• Real businesses have to tighten the belt all the time. Welcome to the real world, NPR. Now you have to make it on your own. If your product is as great as you advertised, you should get enough in donations.
• Might it ever occur to NPR that these cuts would have never happened if they hadn’t turned so blatantly far left? . Hint; If Marxist bilge doesn’t sell, maybe you need to get rid of your Marxist bilge. Nothing like the free market, eh?
• NPR still hasn’t learned its lesson. As I listened in today , the underlying and sometimes overt theme to every story is STILL that Trump is an evil crazy bastard. You did this to yourself, NPR. All you had to do was report straight news and straight features.
• That crap about NPR being the only news source for rural areas is hogwash. Who the hell tunes to NPR for weather information?

Feature story today: A college professor’s trip to the depths of the Arctic Ocean 5000 meters down to find unique methane-eating worms. On the face of it, it sounds pretty interesting, right? But no. They had to throw in women empowerment angle (the professor was a woman, succeeded in a man’s world, was able to get her way over the male crew, etc.), and they had to include that she was a lesbo and interviewed her female life partner. I mean, why add all that? Just do the story. STOP PLAYING THE LEFTWING AGENDA ANGLE ON EVERY SINGLE STORY!.

Their report, obtained by The New York Times, was bleak. Up to 18 percent of about 1,000 member stations would close, it found, impacting the Midwest, the South and the West the most.


Curley estimated that 65 of 433 stations he analyzed, about 15 percent, would be at risk of closing in the next three years if they lost federal funding.

 

[Synthaholic]

NPR laments about rural areas being hit hard. Funny, leftwingers always disparage red state hicksvilles any other time.

This discredits your whole post. Show me where NPR has disparaged "red state hicksvilles" - your words - or ANY elected Democrat in Congress. You retards concoct grievances in your minds and then try to pin them on Democrats.

NPR will do fine in Boston, Philadelphia, NYC, etc. They don't rely on Federal funding like the farm communities in the Midwest, who will lose a lot of vital services, from weather warning to local emergencies and reporting on local government. They need this, and we need them to have it. There are enough Red State ignorants without creating more, a main Republican goal.

 

[MarathonMike]

I was driving around town today doing errands for a couple of hours and tuned in to NPR to see what they would say about Congressional recission of $1.1 billion to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

They griped the whole time, lamenting how the money had been promised, but pulled back, and that rural stations might have to close and how areas wouldn’t get disaster warnings anymore. They said the big city stations would do OK, but the ones in the boonies might have to go under, and how it is the first time in the 55 year history they didn’t get government money, and Trump is a no-good SOB. It was sweet to listen to, frankly.

They did mention that Trump thought NPR was biased, but they said NPR is denying that. (Well, that’s proof, isn’t it?). So they did two contradictory things; they boo-hooed about maybe having to cut things, but vowed to fight on.

So I have some questions and observations for NPR.

• Before the cuts, they were saying government funding constitutes only 1% of NPR’s budget, so it’s really not that much. My question is: Great. If it’s not that much, shouldn’t they be able to easily make it up in donations?
• NPR laments about rural areas being hit hard. Funny, leftwingers always disparage red state hicksvilles any other time.
• If bigger NPR cities will do OK, but rural stations might be shut down, why don’t the big stations share with the smaller rural ones?
• Since NPR vows to fight on against the rednecks who voted for Trump, maybe they will prove they never needed government funding in the first place. So I encourage NPR to knock themselves out fundraising.
• Real businesses have to tighten the belt all the time. Welcome to the real world, NPR. Now you have to make it on your own. If your product is as great as advertised, you should get enough in donations.
• Might it ever occur to NPR that these cuts would have never happened if they hadn’t turned so blatantly far left? . Hint; If Marxist bilge doesn’t sell, maybe you need to get rid of your Marxist bilge. Nothing like the free market, eh?
• NPR still hasn’t learned its lesson. As I listened in today , the underlying and sometimes overt theme to every story is STILL that Trump is an evil crazy bastard. You did this to yourself, NPR. All you had to do was report straight news and straight features.
• That crap about NPR being the only news source for rural areas is hogwash. Who the hell tunes to NPR for weather information?

Feature story today: A college professor’s trip to the depths of the Arctic Ocean 5000 meters down to find unique methane-eating worms. On the face of it, it sounds pretty interesting, right? But no. They had to throw in women empowerment angle (the professor was a woman, succeeded in a man’s world, was able to get her way over the male crew, etc.), and they had to include that she was a lesbo and interviewed her female life partner. I mean, why add all that? Just do the story. STOP PLAYING THE LEFTWING AGENDA ANGLE ON EVERY SINGLE STORY!.

Yes, the tears of Democrat biased "news", government agencies and entertainers these days are truly delicious!

 

[Mack The Finger]

America...what a country !

A place where weirdos' have thier own radio station.

 

[toobfreak]

Their report, obtained by The New York Times, was bleak. Up to 18 percent of about 1,000 member stations would close, it found, impacting the Midwest, the South and the West the most.

Curley estimated that 65 of 433 stations he analyzed, about 15 percent, would be at risk of closing in the next three years if they lost federal funding.

So, in other words, NPR was way bigger than their audience and programming really justified, and will now return to its normal state sans beaucoup bucks injected by the taxpayer holding them afloat.

 

[toobfreak]

Yes, the tears of Democrat biased "news", government agencies and entertainers these days are truly delicious!

What democrats REALLY fear is that take away billions in federal sponsorship, take away tons of stations, programming and features, that it won't make any difference to the general public at large--- no difference in news propagation, no difference in alert readiness, no difference in weather awareness--- the only difference it'll likely make is to democraps themselves.

Without billions more to help spread disinformation, far fewer stand likely to be inundated by leftist indoctrination.

 

[Calypso Jones]

They should have no problem getting funding from donors, NOT TAXPAYERS, if their programming is so necessary. I think we all know the truth of the matter. This was nothing but taxpayer funded leftist propaganda. Good it stopped.

 

[Unkotare]

On the road for a chunk of the day. Tuned in hoping to hear the crying and bitching but got nothing.

 

[JGalt]

I was driving around town today doing errands for a couple of hours and tuned in to NPR to see what they would say about Congressional recission of $1.1 billion to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

They griped the whole time, lamenting how the money had been promised, but pulled back, and that rural stations might have to close and how areas wouldn’t get disaster warnings anymore. They said the big city stations would do OK, but the ones in the boonies might have to go under, and how it is the first time in the 55 year history they didn’t get government money, and Trump is a no-good SOB. It was sweet to listen to, frankly.

They did mention that Trump thought NPR was biased, but they said NPR is denying that. (Well, that’s proof, isn’t it?). So they did two contradictory things; they boo-hooed about maybe having to cut things, but vowed to fight on.

So I have some questions and observations for NPR.

• Before the cuts, they were saying government funding constitutes only 1% of NPR’s budget, so it’s really not that much. My question is: Great. If it’s not that much, shouldn’t they be able to easily make it up in donations?
• NPR laments about rural areas being hit hard. Funny, leftwingers always disparage red state hicksvilles any other time.
• If bigger NPR cities will do OK, but rural stations might be shut down, why don’t the big stations share with the smaller rural ones?
• Since NPR vows to fight on against the rednecks who voted for Trump, maybe they will prove they never needed government funding in the first place. So I encourage NPR to knock themselves out fundraising.
• Real businesses have to tighten the belt all the time. Welcome to the real world, NPR. Now you have to make it on your own. If your product is as great as advertised, you should get enough in donations.
• Might it ever occur to NPR that these cuts would have never happened if they hadn’t turned so blatantly far left? . Hint; If Marxist bilge doesn’t sell, maybe you need to get rid of your Marxist bilge. Nothing like the free market, eh?
• NPR still hasn’t learned its lesson. As I listened in today , the underlying and sometimes overt theme to every story is STILL that Trump is an evil crazy bastard. You did this to yourself, NPR. All you had to do was report straight news and straight features.
• That crap about NPR being the only news source for rural areas is hogwash. Who the hell tunes to NPR for weather information?

Feature story today: A college professor’s trip to the depths of the Arctic Ocean 5000 meters down to find unique methane-eating worms. On the face of it, it sounds pretty interesting, right? But no. They had to throw in women empowerment angle (the professor was a woman, succeeded in a man’s world, was able to get her way over the male crew, etc.), and they had to include that she was a lesbo and interviewed her female life partner. I mean, why add all that? Just do the story. STOP PLAYING THE LEFTWING AGENDA ANGLE ON EVERY SINGLE STORY!.

Be sure to visit the NPR wine club at the NPR Shop. Each future case includes NPR-themed wines, too, along with seasonal selections from our wine partner Laithwaites plus tasting notes for curious minds.

Online Wine Offers | White & Dry Red Wine | Laithwaites

 

[excalibur]

Be sure to visit the NPR wine club at the NPR Shop. Each future case includes NPR-themed wines, too, along with seasonal selections from our wine partner Laithwaites plus tasting notes for curious minds.

Online Wine Offers | White & Dry Red Wine | Laithwaites

Shouldn't that be 'whine' club?

 

[toobfreak]

They should have no problem getting funding from donors, NOT TAXPAYERS, if their programming is so necessary. I think we all know the truth of the matter. This was nothing but taxpayer funded leftist propaganda. Good it stopped.

Exactly. If they ever served a real need, those who benefited will step up to support them. Nothing with PBS nor NPR need change.

But the real fear is that all this money go away and taxpayers find that nothing is lost, it was all a democrat boondoggle, pouring money into democrat coffers to support whatever democrats do.

And to think, democrats brought all of this onto themselves by simply being such shitheels. Greedy little assholes and shitheels. They literally BEGGED for Daddy Trump to come in, step up and slap that cookie out of their hand...

 

[JGalt]

Shouldn't that be 'whine' club?

Aww now. After losing the most important election of their lifetimes, getting shitfaced drunk on wine is the only thing that gets those poor Democrats through another day.

Besides, now that Trump has cut off NPR's funding, they can make up the difference by peddling cheap overpriced wine to their listeners. I actually listened to NPR's live stream for a couple minutes, after reading your thread. I felt like I was in a foreign country.

 

[Crepitus]

I was driving around town today doing errands for a couple of hours and tuned in to NPR to see what they would say about Congressional recission of $1.1 billion to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

They griped the whole time, lamenting how the money had been promised, but pulled back, and that rural stations might have to close and how areas wouldn’t get disaster warnings anymore. They said the big city stations would do OK, but the ones in the boonies might have to go under, and how it is the first time in the 55 year history they didn’t get government money, and Trump is a no-good SOB. It was sweet to listen to, frankly.

They did mention that Trump thought NPR was biased, but they said NPR is denying that. (Well, that’s proof, isn’t it?). So they did two contradictory things; they boo-hooed about maybe having to cut things, but vowed to fight on.

So I have some questions and observations for NPR.

• Before the cuts, they were saying government funding constitutes only 1% of NPR’s budget, so it’s really not that much. My question is: Great. If it’s not that much, shouldn’t they be able to easily make it up in donations?
• NPR laments about rural areas being hit hard. Funny, leftwingers always disparage red state hicksvilles any other time.
• If bigger NPR cities will do OK, but rural stations might be shut down, why don’t the big stations share with the smaller rural ones?
• Since NPR vows to fight on against the rednecks who voted for Trump, maybe they will prove they never needed government funding in the first place. So I encourage NPR to knock themselves out fundraising.
• Real businesses have to tighten the belt all the time. Welcome to the real world, NPR. Now you have to make it on your own. If your product is as great as advertised, you should get enough in donations.
• Might it ever occur to NPR that these cuts would have never happened if they hadn’t turned so blatantly far left? . Hint; If Marxist bilge doesn’t sell, maybe you need to get rid of your Marxist bilge. Nothing like the free market, eh?
• NPR still hasn’t learned its lesson. As I listened in today , the underlying and sometimes overt theme to every story is STILL that Trump is an evil crazy bastard. You did this to yourself, NPR. All you had to do was report straight news and straight features.
• That crap about NPR being the only news source for rural areas is hogwash. Who the hell tunes to NPR for weather information?

Feature story today: A college professor’s trip to the depths of the Arctic Ocean 5000 meters down to find unique methane-eating worms. On the face of it, it sounds pretty interesting, right? But no. They had to throw in women empowerment angle (the professor was a woman, succeeded in a man’s world, was able to get her way over the male crew, etc.), and they had to include that she was a lesbo and interviewed her female life partner. I mean, why add all that? Just do the story. STOP PLAYING THE LEFTWING AGENDA ANGLE ON EVERY SINGLE STORY!.

How about if someone pulled back half of your paycheck? You would complain.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Exactly. If they ever served a real need, those who benefited will step up to support them. Nothing with PBS nor NPR need change.

But the real fear is that all this money go away and taxpayers find that nothing is lost, it was all a democrat boondoggle, pouring money into democrat coffers to support whatever democrats do.

And to think, democrats brought all of this onto themselves by simply being such shitheels. Greedy little assholes and shitheels. They literally BEGGED for Daddy Trump to come in, step up and slap that cookie out of their hand...

Democrats seem to like working it that their propaganda tools and entertainment are paid for by all of US.

 

[Mashmont]

This discredits your whole post. Show me where NPR has disparaged "red state hicksvilles" - your words - or ANY elected Democrat in Congress. You retards concoct grievances in your minds and then try to pin them on Democrats.

NPR will do fine in Boston, Philadelphia, NYC, etc. They don't rely on Federal funding like the farm communities in the Midwest, who will lose a lot of vital services, from weather warning to local emergencies and reporting on local government. They need this, and we need them to have it. There are enough Red State ignorants without creating more, a main Republican goal.

I wish I had a nickel for every story NPR did in the deep south that had twangy background music. It's quite obvious effete urban leftwingers have a disdain for small towns, especially those in red states. But invariably, they'd either find or invent some "enlightened" leftwinger in these backward venues who would join in NPR in lamenting the villain du jour (coal company, GOP legislature, anti-enivonmentalists....)

 

[Mashmont]

How about if someone pulled back half of your paycheck? You would complain.

My paycheck is purely market based. NPR's isn't.

 

[toobfreak]

Democrats seem to like working it that their propaganda tools and entertainment are paid for by all of US.

Look at Harvard: 50 billion dollars in the bank and they are screaming bloody murder that worlds will collide if they don't get a couple billion from the taxpayers every year.

They want that taxpayer money all the while despising 60-70% of the taxpayers who pay into it.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Look at Harvard: 50 billion dollars in the bank and they are screaming bloody murder that worlds will collide if they don't get a couple billion from the taxpayers every year.

They want that taxpayer money all the while despising 60-70% of the taxpayers who pay into it.

I rather resent their greed. I found out recently that one of our local universities, you would recognize the name, has a research lab. THAT absolutely terrifies me what these idiots are doing in there.