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The only thing worth listening to on NPR is Car Talk. Those guys could TOTALLY do better on real radio and NPR would lose a big chunk of its audience.

Car Talk is so not really something I expect to hear on NPR. I loved it, and I don’t give a shit about cars.

I use to listen to Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, just because it seemed to be on whenever I was going somewhere on a Saturday. Or was it Sunday? It would’ve been funny if it weren’t so tilted left.

LOL… Fox just handed Williams a 3-year, $2 MILLION dollar contract….

Now waiting for NPR’s other Fox contributors to start rocking the boat in hopes of a similar deal…..

I used to listen to Wait, wait too, but yeah it seems that nobody on the left ever says or does anything mock-worthy. Years ‘n years ago I would listen to A Prairie Home Companion from time to time. Unfortunately Ol’ Keillor got a rabid case of BDS and went completely off the rails. The last time I listened to him he had Randy Newman on as a guest who described his own political views as “somewhere to the left of Nicolae Ceauşescu”. Keillor just thought that was the funniest thing and laughed and laughed. I turned off the show and never turned it back on.

Do you REALLY believe their figures for what they get from the taxpayers? After all, these were calculated by the same people who INSISTED there was NO PROBLEM with the sub-prime mortgages, ALL THE WAY UP THROUGH early 2008!

As you might imagine, Keillor is a darling of the BBC.

And Ceauşescu? So middle of teh road? More like that bastard Enver Hoxha.

Well, they’ve been consistently citing 2% for years and years, Mark. It may not be the total (some of those grants probably emanate from people like the NEA, for example), but that’s likely to be the only explicit federal monies. Or they’d have been caught out by now.

Caught by whom? The Feds? Yeah, right! The general public? They aren’t subject to FOIA. And even those organizations who ARE FOIAable have generally done an outstanding job hiding WHATEVER they want to hide…

I think the 2% is straight-up money from Uncle Sugar. I believe we also match (through grants) a percentage of gifts from others. Not sure where I read that but I think it’s right. If so, that could bump up the total vig substantially.

Don’t know why I didn’t do this first but, oh well: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101021094439AAhKKnC

It appears that the 2% may be bogus or for the entire organization as a whole, but I’m not interested enough to sort it out. Whatever, there’s no reason to maintain any sort of pipeline to them. Bastiches.

Soros dumps a wad to hire a bunch of hack reporters for NPR, no doubt in his image, and voilà, a Fox (his target via the other wad he dumped at Hillary’s pet Media Matters) gets canned. How convenient.

Thus the obvious reason why they all walk in lockstep. If I own you, you give up all control of your thoughts and opinions regardless where you may be.

Unfortunately, both where I live and where I currently work, public radio is the only normal radio station playing classical, and that’s all I listen to in the car. Except that RIGHT NOW is that damned fundraising crap, so I don’t get to hear much music.

“Car Talk” is fabulous, but I don’t often get to hear it.

Mike C. –

If you have the capacity to listen online, try http://www.kmfa.org

Good folks and good music.

It is a bit more than the 2%, in fact, when one considers that they are given their broadcast frequency licenses for free.

But, in fact, the public funding is disproportionately valuable in the sense that….

Well….how much tougher would it be to muster all of that supercillious smugness in conversation, as people proudly announce that they listen to National PRIVATE Radio?

From what I was reading the other day (hand-waving since I don’t have the numbers at hand), I believe the 2% number is for the National organization. But, as you see in the pie chart above they actually get the largest percentage of their funding from the member stations (fees, dues) and THEY get significant Federal funding.

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It gets better – viddy the NPR CEO suggesting that Williams needs psychiatric care. I consider that a positive step, demonstrating growth by the lefties.

Used to be you disagreed with them, you were stupid or evil, or maybe a combination of both. Now there’s a third option – insane!

Anyway, I know that it’s only a small chink of change going to NPR and PBS, as well as the NEA. I’d still like to see it all cut off just on principle. No taxpayer support for propaganda or the arts.

By the way, if anyone had Juan Williams in the dead pool, does this count?

I have a car-radio game I like to play with NPR. I’ll listen until they mention a liberal meme key word. It’s really gotten to be fun. Generally they can’t go more than a minute, and usually it’s less than 30 seconds.

To show how easy it is to win though, here are some headlines stolen from NPR.org’s home page

Influence Of Israel’s Leftist Peace Movement Wanes

Unemployment Rate Drops In 23 States

Less than 2% Where’d that endowment come from?

[…] has the best take on the whole Juan Williams sitch and you should go there and read it. Here’s a snip: Did you know, less than two percent of NPR’s funding comes from the […]

The 2% is what the national NPR gets from Uncle Sugar. However, the local stations are funded separately; I think I saw an average of 60% of their funds are FedGov somewhere. So what: kill them all; O! will know its’ own. IOW, multiply that 42% from stations by .6, then add 2% to get a better approximation. Not to mention that the donations are tax-deductible. Fox doesn’t get that….

2%… i thought hmmmm?
then i read this:
http://tinyurl.com/3y4hcaa

and said: it figures….. just hiding how the US taxpayer actually is on the hook for their millions and millions and..

Yes, I said something this stupid – It was revealed in a sweep of federal expenditures for Guam recently that the FCC spends $15 million per year on this island with about 150,000+ residents. we have PBS and NPR available here. NPR (anecdotal information from a devoted listener) gets about $40,000 in donations and that’s not enough to pay the electric bill.

The mechanics of how money moves in your government isn’t exciting, but it may be found to be interesting if some intrepid reporter kind of person wanted to dig. I have neither the time nor the inclination.

Before one can whack this disgusting species from the federally funded forest of support for collectivist indoctrination, one needs to identify how it continues to exist.

Good luck to us fans of constitutionally limited government.

Those local “public radio” stations get a large portion of their operating funds from Uncle Sugar, or their state/local government pimps. Most of those stations are “owned” by colleges or some foundation that gets major funding by governmental entities. It is nothing but a major scam. The ratings of public stations is so minute, that a spanish language sports station in Wheeling, WV would have a larger audience than public radio.
Don’t worry though, that public radio station will have state of the art broadcasting facilities that are rarely used because all of their programming is from NPR.

If it’s really only a paltry 2 percent, then they shouldn’t miss it much, right?

Mike, it isn’t just 2%. It’s more like 30%.

From newsbusters –

But O’Donnell conveniently forgot to mention that about 40% of NPR’s budget comes from payments from its affiliate stations. And as MRC’s Tim Graham detailed here, those stations derive about 13% of their budgets from the feds. Getting a bit down in the weeds, that means that in addition to the 1-3% in direct funding, NPR is getting about 5% of its budget from federal funds directed to the affiliates and then funneled back to the NPR mothership.

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don’t forget when such places as colleges/universities give them endowments, contributions, much of that money is taxpayer funds…….