NPR Still Hasn't Learned Its Lesson

[Missourian]

We established I voted for favorable policies for those rural areas they voted against me

We've established you've voted for policies that you wanted.

We don't want those policies.

If you were just "helping" and now you don't care, are you going to vote Republican now? No? Then you're full of shit.

We don't want or need your "help".

Clean up your own mess.

This is what Philadelphia looked like last time I was there...

...but more graffiti and a smashed toilet in the middle of the road.

Spend your effort cleaning up your own shit and leave us the **** alone.

 

[Missourian]

That’s the funny thing about these morons. Small rural market radio and TV stations are going to be the ones who feel the hit the most; the WNYC’s and WGBH’s of the national have a big enough subscriber base to support them if they step up. All they did was make Possum Hollar more miserable than it already was.

Did some leftist scream that talking point up your ass?

Nobody in rural America gives a single **** about NPR.

 

[citygator]

We've established you've voted for policies that you wanted.

We don't want those policies.

If you were just "helping" and now you don't care, are you going to vote Republican now? No? Then you're full of shit.

We don't want or need your "help".

Clean up your own mess.

This is what Philadelphia looked like last time I was there...



...but more graffiti and a smashed toilet in the middle of the road.

Spend your effort cleaning up your own shit and leave us the **** alone.

You already get my help you leach. I paid more in federal taxes than 30 average red state tax payers. Lets face it. We city folk keep your lights on, water flowing, shit treated, and hospitals funded. I could care less if you guys cut my taxes more and drain the federal resources for the shithole you live in.

 

[Missourian]

You already get my help you leach. I paid more in federal taxes than 30 average red state tax payers. Lets face it. We city folk keep your lights on, water flowing, shit treated, and hospitals funded. I could care less if you guys cut my taxes more and drain the federal resources for the shithole you live in.

Only in your own mind.

Mapped: U.S. Federal Tax Revenue Per Person, by State

Which U.S. states paid the most in federal taxes per person in 2023? See the surprising rankings in this per capita breakdown.

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A Missourian pays almost as much as a New Yorker, and way more than a Californian or a Marylander or a Vermonter, or a Hawaiian.

 

[citygator]

Only in your own mind.

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Mapped: U.S. Federal Tax Revenue Per Person, by State

Which U.S. states paid the most in federal taxes per person in 2023? See the surprising rankings in this per capita breakdown.

www.visualcapitalist.com

A Missourian pays almost as much as a New Yorker, and way more than a Californian or a Marylander or a Vermonter, or a Hawaiian.

I paid more than about 30 red state taxpayers and more than about 15 blues state tax payers because red state tax payers dont carry their full weight. They are taker states and dont pay enough. We should change that. I am for a minimum tax bill to red states that covers at least what they receive.

 

[Missourian]

I asked my AI assistant where all these Midwesterners were in "News Deserts" that bemoaned the loss of NPR funding.

Where did it come up with?

Springfield Missouri!

Springfield and the surrounding area has print news, broadcast television, many radio stations.

Even Ava, out in the middle of nowhere, 50 miles from Ozark Public Radio, has their own radio broadcasting and their own a newspaper.

 

[citygator]

I asked my AI assistant where all these Midwesterners were in "News Deserts" that bemoaned the loss of NPR funding.

Where did it come up with?

Springfield Missouri!

Springfield and the surrounding area has print news, broadcast television, many radio stations.

Even Ava, out in the middle of nowhere, 50 miles from Ozark Public Radio, has their own radio broadcasting and their own a newspaper.

Cool. I am glad you took some initiative to look into a single area. Here is a full account of the impacted stations of which, half are in rural areas that serve a fraction of the population. However, they do vote red so they dont really care, so neither do I.

About CPB

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was a private, nonprofit corporation established by Congress through the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.As the steward of the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting, CPB became the largest single source of funding for public radio...

cpb.org

More than 70 percent of CPB’s annual appropriation goes directly to public media stations in the form of Community Service Grants (CSG). As described in the Television and Radio General Provisions and Eligibility Requirements, CSG grant calculations include a variety of provisions that provide special assistance to small and rural stations.

• 245 of the total 544 radio and TV grantees are considered rural. Of these, 84 are public television station grantees and 161 are public radio station grantees.
• During FY 2023, CPB provided more than $147 million to support operations and programming at these stations, representing 31 percent of our total appropriation. Rural stations leveraged this funding to raise $553 million in non-federal funds, including $164 million in state funding, $48 million from colleges and universities, $37 million from foundations, $42 million from local businesses and $248 million from individual donors. All told, this represents a return of over $3.70 for every appropriated dollar.
• These rural stations employ more than 5,850 people.

 

[Missourian]

Cool. I am glad you took some initiative to look into a single area. Here is a full account of the impacted stations of which, half are in rural areas that serve a fraction of the population. However, they do vote red so they dont really care, so neither do I.

About CPB

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was a private, nonprofit corporation established by Congress through the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.As the steward of the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting, CPB became the largest single source of funding for public radio...

cpb.org

More than 70 percent of CPB’s annual appropriation goes directly to public media stations in the form of Community Service Grants (CSG). As described in the Television and Radio General Provisions and Eligibility Requirements, CSG grant calculations include a variety of provisions that provide special assistance to small and rural stations.

• 245 of the total 544 radio and TV grantees are considered rural. Of these, 84 are public television station grantees and 161 are public radio station grantees.
• During FY 2023, CPB provided more than $147 million to support operations and programming at these stations, representing 31 percent of our total appropriation. Rural stations leveraged this funding to raise $553 million in non-federal funds, including $164 million in state funding, $48 million from colleges and universities, $37 million from foundations, $42 million from local businesses and $248 million from individual donors. All told, this represents a return of over $3.70 for every appropriated dollar.
• These rural stations employ more than 5,850 people.

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Gee-whiz, thanks for the press release directly from the folks wanting the money! At least we know where the talking point came from.

Now... Find me a rural community that is complaining. Not a station. Not a spokesperson for NPR. A community. I'll wait.

 

[PeanutGallery]

Gee-whiz, thanks for the press release directly from the folks wanting the money! At least we know where the talking point came from.

Now... Find me a rural community that is complaining. Not a station. Not a spokesperson for NPR. A community. I'll wait.

You would think when all of this was going down that someone in the media would have gone out and found a rural resident or two to give a sob story about not being to listen to NPR or watch PBS. Maybe I missed it, but did a story like that come out? For those complaining about the "rural viewers/listeners", they can compete just like all the others do to get an audience.

 

[citygator]

Gee-whiz, thanks for the press release directly from the folks wanting the money! At least we know where the talking point came from.

Now... Find me a rural community that is complaining. Not a station. Not a spokesperson for NPR. A community. I'll wait.

You keep missing my point. I dont care about this cut. It will only impact red areas. Who cares?

 

[Missourian]

You keep missing my point. I dont care about this cut. It will only impact red areas. Who cares?

YOU keep missing the point. Red areas NEVER cared. Only you cared.

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[Missourian]

Well, so much for that bs talking point.

CITIZEN FREE PRESS

The Greatest News Site On The Internet. Home of CFP Nation.

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[citygator]

Well, so much for that bs talking point.

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CITIZEN FREE PRESS

The Greatest News Site On The Internet. Home of CFP Nation.

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Did you click the link? The link is to this article and the hack site you quoted changed the title of the link. No one expects a shut down in month 1 of the cuts but in a year from now.

I DONT CARE THOUGH. A bunch of them are in Alaska. **** em. Many are in the rural west. **** em.

Here is the link they CHANGED THE TITLE and embedded:

PBS, NPR stations struggle with Trump-fueled government funding cuts

A month after Congress voted to strip public media of public money, PBS and NPR stations are working to cope — and survive.

apnews.com

The bigger reckoning may come a year from now, Kerger said. “I am a realist,” she said. “there are some vulnerable stations that are not going to make it.”

Many launched emergency fund drives and are heartened by the response. The national NPR and PBS networks are reducing expected dues payments, and a philanthropic effort focused on the hardest-hit stations is taking shape. No stations have shut down, but job and programming cuts are already beginning.

Public media leaders are also working with a group of philanthropists led by the Knight and MacArthur foundations that is hoping to raise some $50 million to support stations in areas hardest hit be the cuts. Ed Ulman, president and CEO of Alaska Public Media, which represents nearly two dozen radio and television stations in the largest state, said he’ll be seeking money from this fund.

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[Zincwarrior]

I don’t know how many times I need to say it. I don’t care if rural areas get funding cut off. **** them.

I thought NPR was private now.

 

[citygator]

I thought NPR was private now.

First it is mostly PBS with issues not necessarily NPR. It is rural stations that get funding to stay in business when their customers don’t have enough money and their populations are too small. It’s broke ass red state areas that are going to see the closures. Alaska has 6 stations only operating because of federal funding for example.

 

[Rawley]

You already get my help you leach. I paid more in federal taxes than 30 average red state tax payers.

Bullshit

 

[Missourian]

Did you click the link? The link is to this article and the hack site you quoted changed the title of the link. No one expects a shut down in month 1 of the cuts but in a year from now.

I DONT CARE THOUGH. A bunch of them are in Alaska. **** em. Many are in the rural west. **** em.

Here is the link they CHANGED THE TITLE and embedded:

PBS, NPR stations struggle with Trump-fueled government funding cuts

A month after Congress voted to strip public media of public money, PBS and NPR stations are working to cope — and survive.

apnews.com

The bigger reckoning may come a year from now, Kerger said. “I am a realist,” she said. “there are some vulnerable stations that are not going to make it.”

Many launched emergency fund drives and are heartened by the response. The national NPR and PBS networks are reducing expected dues payments, and a philanthropic effort focused on the hardest-hit stations is taking shape. No stations have shut down, but job and programming cuts are already beginning.

Public media leaders are also working with a group of philanthropists led by the Knight and MacArthur foundations that is hoping to raise some $50 million to support stations in areas hardest hit be the cuts. Ed Ulman, president and CEO of Alaska Public Media, which represents nearly two dozen radio and television stations in the largest state, said he’ll be seeking money from this fund.

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So... no stations shut down. Got it.

I gotta say, for someone who doesn't care, you sure do care a lot.

I think you have a bunch of pent up butthurt.

You should probably see someone about that... It ain't healthy.

 

[candycorn]

Did some leftist scream that talking point up your ass?

It is simple mathematics. Oh wait...for folks like yourself, mathematics is a foreign language.

Nobody in rural America gives a single **** about NPR.

There are something like 6,000 jobs created by CPB in rural communities. Nearly all will be gone thanks to your blob.

 

[Dragonlady]

Do you have things you love to hate? NPR is one of those for me. During my afternoon errands, I tuned in to NPR now that Rush Limbaugh is gone.

Observations:
1) Three times an hour, they ***** about their rescinded government funding and appeal for donations. One would assume if their leftwing propaganda is that much in demand, they wouldn't have to beg every 20 minutes.

2) They cover the same four stories all the time: 1) War in Gaza 2) Climate change. 3) Immigration ICE abuse and 4) some feminist heroine profile. Their segments always take the leftwing position and have some down-and-out victim with a sob story. And always, always, always, Trump is to blame. They will also sprinkle in stories of the day. Today, it was the fired CDC director Susan Monrarez. (Trump is anti-science) and the firedFed governor Lisa Cook (Trump is a racist. Trump seeking retribution). The possibility of Cook actually committing a crime was never addressed. Also thrown in was the DC takeover. (DC doesn't need it. Trump is Hitler). Also discussed was the Catholic School shooting. (Troubled person who acted alone). The trans issue is mentioned only in context conservatives' hateful reaction to it. No, it could not possibly be related to the crime

3) They have panels to discuss these issues. Always a journalist from the Atlantic, New York Times or Huffington Post; and someone from academia; a Harvard or Columbia professor Not one voice on the panel even close to conservative. And yet the CEO Katharine Maher claims 100% objectivity: "For decades, NPR clung to the fiction that it is committed to serving Americans across the political spectrum.” She said it with a straight face.

4) It is clear NPR has not learned its lesson. It is still outrageously leftwing. Nothing even close to objective. Same tired stories. Same tired format. Nothing to merit government funding ever again. Donation pitch "Please help us continue to present the programming people need." Nobody needs that Marxist claptrap.

NPR should take a page from CNN. CNN was smart enough to hire conservative Scott Jennings as a political analyst. Because of him, I switch over to CNN's Laura Coates show when Gutfeld's show comes on. Jennings is so good and so quick, he annihilates the mouthy black leftwing women who talk over him. He gets his jabs in and totally dominates.

NPR shows it hasn't learned its lesson

Editors at the Washington Free Beacon highlight public radio’s ongoing problems in the wake of its loss of federal funding. For decades, NPR clung to the fiction that it is committed to serving “Americans across the political spectrum.” That’s how CEO Katherine Maher put it during the network’s...

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The Washington Free Beacon and whoever JohnLocke.org is are not credible sources.

• Overall, we rate the Washington Free Beacon Right Biased based on story selection that favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to misleading and false claims.

Washington Free Beacon - Bias and Credibility

RIGHT BIAS These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may

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[PeanutGallery]

It is simple mathematics. Oh wait...for folks like yourself, mathematics is a foreign language.

There are something like 6,000 jobs created by CPB in rural communities. Nearly all will be gone thanks to your blob.

Why can't they compete for listeners and take ads like regular radio/TV stations do? Also, if people were willing to spend around $1.5B to get Kamala elected, why can't they pick up some of the slack to keep those stations running? Sounds like they only care as long as they don't have to pick up the tab.