Why does NPR exist? Public funded!? Good bye

[Jitss617]

Well, It 's not like I didn't know what this thread was going to be before I checked. I'll keep supporting NPR.
For the record, I liked Jits' plumbing thread better. He could be a contributing member of society if he followed through, getting that training, so he could really get down with the $h$t.

No point in schools if democrats are in charge of Boston

You've always said democrats were full of crap. I pointed out the free (actually paid) training mentioned at that plumbers union website, and you could be serving humanity, fixing clogged democratic $h%tholes right in you on city, and being paid for it. Would have been human interest story worthy of 2 minutes on NPR.

I would never work for a Union

 

[candycorn]

Trump questions why NPR exists after Pompeo clashes with reporter

Why is that crap!? Anyone listen? I hear trump is questioning it’s existence.

Agreed. Nation Endowment of the Farts too.

Why do Trumpsters hate the arts?

It requires an attention span longer than a microsecond and there is no one there telling blob supporters what to hate about it

 

[rightwinger]

2) If the agreement to get the interview was it would only be about one subject and the reporter ambushed him with another, then I say the reporter should be fired (not that I believe his behavior was appropriate).

There's an email chain of her staff OKing it with his. It wasnt an "ambush".

Doesn’t matter

Team Trump will still lie

 

[jasonnfree]

lotsa good stuff on npr. A while back they did a program on pete seeger and woodie guthrie about the the old days with lotsa music. Rush and hannitoid have a lock on talk even in southern california so npr balances it out a little out with some liberal talk. Give it a try, maybe throw a donation their way now and then. 90.7 fm.

 

[Leo123]

Trump questions why NPR exists after Pompeo clashes with reporter

Why is that crap!? Anyone listen? I hear trump is questioning it’s existence.

While NPR does not receive any direct federal funding, it does receive a small number of competitive grants from CPB and federal agencies like the Department of Education and the Department of Commerce. This funding amounts to approximately 2% of NPR's overall revenues

NPR - Wikipedia

They should receive $0 tax dollars. 2% is too much. They only have 1% musical programming which is about all I listen to. The rest is lefty news purporting to be objective. I notice they leave out a lot of pertinent details that would favor a more right-leaning cause.

 

[Lysistrata]

Trump questions why NPR exists after Pompeo clashes with reporter

Why is that crap!? Anyone listen? I hear trump is questioning it’s existence.

This is another attempt by the orange whore to dismember American society and its valuable cultural institutions and assets. It's right down there with attacking the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, both of which have occurred. Soon the right-wingers will turn to attacking the Fourth of July Parade on Main Street, Everytown, U.S.A., unless a huge picture of him is displayed at the front of the parade and the the marchers sing praises to him.

 

[Jitss617]

Trump questions why NPR exists after Pompeo clashes with reporter

Why is that crap!? Anyone listen? I hear trump is questioning it’s existence.

This is another attempt by the orange whore to dismember American society and its valuable cultural institutions and assets. It's right down there with attacking the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, both of which have occurred. Soon the right-wingers will turn to attacking the Fourth of July Parade on Main Street, Everytown, U.S.A., unless a huge picture of him is displayed at the front of the parade and the the marchers sing praises to him.

Democrats have no American culture

 

[Lysistrata]

Trump questions why NPR exists after Pompeo clashes with reporter

Why is that crap!? Anyone listen? I hear trump is questioning it’s existence.

This is another attempt by the orange whore to dismember American society and its valuable cultural institutions and assets. It's right down there with attacking the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, both of which have occurred. Soon the right-wingers will turn to attacking the Fourth of July Parade on Main Street, Everytown, U.S.A., unless a huge picture of him is displayed at the front of the parade and the the marchers sing praises to him.

Democrats have no American culture

American culture is not defined by political party. BTW: do you actually believe that republicans represent, and are shining examples of American culture?

 

[Jitss617]

Trump questions why NPR exists after Pompeo clashes with reporter

Why is that crap!? Anyone listen? I hear trump is questioning it’s existence.

This is another attempt by the orange whore to dismember American society and its valuable cultural institutions and assets. It's right down there with attacking the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, both of which have occurred. Soon the right-wingers will turn to attacking the Fourth of July Parade on Main Street, Everytown, U.S.A., unless a huge picture of him is displayed at the front of the parade and the the marchers sing praises to him.

Democrats have no American culture

American culture is not defined by political party. BTW: do you actually believe that republicans represent, and are shining examples of American culture?

Republicans are the only things left of traditional American values.. you democrats have destroyed our cities

 

[Markle]

While NPR does not receive any direct federal funding, it does receive a small number of competitive grants from CPB and federal agencies like the Department of Education and the Department of Commerce. This funding amounts to approximately 2% of NPR's overall revenues

NPR - Wikipedia

Let's see, who writes the information contained on Wikipedia about NPR. Think, think, think. Why son-of-a-gun, it's NPR who writes and edits that information.

October 25, 2010
How Public Is NPR's Funding?
By Mark Browning
[...]
At first glance, this distribution of funds seems to confirm that public radio's support does not come in large amounts from the direct allocation of tax moneys. After all, 5.6% is not a gigantic portion of the budget, is it? But let's look more closely. That 10.1% that comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is 99% provided by -- you guessed it -- the federal government. Those university funds, whenever they are provided by a public university, represent taxpayer-provided dollars. We can safely assert that three out of four university-supported stations are publicly funded, which means that more than 10% (three-quarters of that 13.6%) is taken from the taxpayer's pockets.

So far, we find that NPR member stations count on direct or indirect taxpayer money for some 25% of their funds -- and that's before we consider some of the largest portions of their budgets.

Obviously the support by individuals, businesses, and foundations does not constitute taxpayer funding, right? Not so fast. These donations are tax-deductible; thus, they are subsidized by the government. Granted, not every gift is actually reflected on an individual or business tax return, and not all of those that are itemized wind up offsetting high marginal tax rates. Still, it is reasonable to believe that on average, these gifts result in deductions at the 25% tax bracket. Since these three categories add up to roughly 64% of station funds, we can reasonably argue that 16% of that money (64% x 0.25) is subsidized by the tax code.

In the end, then, local NPR affiliates derive something like 41% of their funding from taxes, either directly or indirectly.
[...]
Read more: How Public Is NPR's Funding?

 

[Markle]

Reagan tried to cut it. They are too powerful a Part of the deep state.

They were when President Reagan was in office. We didn't have a half dozen 24/7 cable news shows, no internet and CNN was founded on June 1, 1980, so information was limited.

When I traveled as a speaker, I loved to drive at night. I'd find the NPR station and follow it as much as I could. It kept me awake hollering at their outbursts.

They no longer merit a dime of taxpayer money. At most, their views are shared by 40-45 percent of the country.

 

[ChrisL]

They should have ZERO federal funding, same with PBS. If they can't make it on their own merits, then they should fail.

 

[Markle]

NPR humiliates Trumps Secretary of State and now Trump is screaming to kill NPR

No one wants to "kill" NPR, simply cut off their hand in the pocket of taxpayers.

 

[Markle]

Well, It 's not like I didn't know what this thread was going to be before I checked. I'll keep supporting NPR.
For the record, I liked Jits' plumbing thread better. He could be a contributing member of society if he followed through, getting that training, so he could really get down with the $h$t.

Good for you, just don't expect me, a taxpayer, to willingly support them.

 

[Lysistrata]

Trump questions why NPR exists after Pompeo clashes with reporter

Why is that crap!? Anyone listen? I hear trump is questioning it’s existence.

This is another attempt by the orange whore to dismember American society and its valuable cultural institutions and assets. It's right down there with attacking the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, both of which have occurred. Soon the right-wingers will turn to attacking the Fourth of July Parade on Main Street, Everytown, U.S.A., unless a huge picture of him is displayed at the front of the parade and the the marchers sing praises to him.

Democrats have no American culture

American culture is not defined by political party. BTW: do you actually believe that republicans represent, and are shining examples of American culture?

Republicans are the only things left of traditional American values.. you democrats have destroyed our cities

How stupid. There is no definitive list of "traditional American values." Even if they were well defined, how could one political party or another be their sole representative? I never joined a political party, nor have I ever been to a political rally, but I vote for Democratic candidates and give financial contributions to the Democratic Party because of what the republicans have turned themselves into, which is entirely ugly and representative of the opposite of what being an American means to me. They have chosen the way of fascism and bizarre cultism. Very bad choices. How do I say not only "no," but "HELL NO"?

 

[Markle]

lotsa good stuff on npr. A while back they did a program on pete seeger and woodie guthrie about the the old days with lotsa music. Rush and hannitoid have a lock on talk even in southern california so npr balances it out a little out with some liberal talk. Give it a try, maybe throw a donation their way now and then. 90.7 fm.

Why don't liberals simply put Progressive talk shows on commercial radio? You know, like Rush and Hannity. Why should I pay to support views 180 degrees from mine?

 

[Markle]

American culture is not defined by political party. BTW: do you actually believe that republicans represent, and are shining examples of American culture?

Far more so than Democrats. Our country was not founded to be a Socialist society.

 

[Lysistrata]

American culture is not defined by political party. BTW: do you actually believe that republicans represent, and are shining examples of American culture?

Far more so than Democrats. Our country was not founded to be a Socialist society.

So "socialism" is your latest word from the propagandists. Socialism has nothing to do with anything at this point. When are you right-wing republicans going to publicly disown white supremacists and fundie trash cults?

Why not stop giving taxpayers' money to these cults, glorifying them, and appointing them to posts in government? The executive-branch departments have quietly changed regulations to allow discrimination against LGBT Americans and to make it difficult for female Americans to exercise their right to choice in their reproductive lives. Try explaining this.

 

[Picaro]

PBS existed to make Bill Moyers rich, mainly; he was at the top of that food chain from the beginning. NPR exists because Democrats need a 24/7 mouthpiece, since all their talk radio shows were total failures on AM radio, against the right wing hacks. They're boring arrogant twits, and don't appeal to most people in real life.

lotsa good stuff on npr. A while back they did a program on pete seeger and woodie guthrie about the the old days with lotsa music. Rush and hannitoid have a lock on talk even in southern california so npr balances it out a little out with some liberal talk. Give it a try, maybe throw a donation their way now and then. 90.7 fm.

I like The People's Pharmacy and 'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, at least before they decided to do 23/7 hit jobs on Trump even in their light entertainment shows; very infantile and stupid, and they now blatantly lie in their news segments. Their news coverage of the 2016 elections was particularly detestable and dishonest, including some of the commentators I had some respect for, but no longer; they don't have a single real journalist on staff now. They're trying to revive McLaughlin Group now, so they can run fake promotions of being 'balanced', but that will fail, too. They need to die off and go back to airing classical music or something..

 

[Desperado]

Trump questions why NPR exists after Pompeo clashes with reporter

Why is that crap!? Anyone listen? I hear trump is questioning it’s existence.

While NPR does not receive any direct federal funding, it does receive a small number of competitive grants from CPB and federal agencies like the Department of Education and the Department of Commerce. This funding amounts to approximately 2% of NPR's overall revenues

NPR - Wikipedia

2% too much