On Dec 25, 11:29Â*am, ∅baMa∅ Tse Dung wrote:
On Dec 24, 4:15Â*pm, Ron wrote:
On Dec 24, 3:38Â*pm, N∅ ∅baMa∅
wrote:http://page.townhall.com/DefundNPR/

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This is an old Mantra. Â*Get up to date on NPR funding. Â*Go to:

http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/pu...ofinances.html

Where we read the following, with my added CAPS:

"NPR's revenue comes primarily from fees paid by our member stations,
contributions from corporate sponsors, institutional foundation
grants, gifts from major donors, and fees paid by users of The Public
Radio Satellite System. Â*WE RECEIVE NO DIRECT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR
OPERATIONS. Â*The largest share of NPR's revenue comes from program
fees and station dues paid by member stations that broadcast NPR
programs."

Your post illustrates so much of what is wrong with Wingers. Â*They
rant and rave over subjects about which they know nothing. Â*Zilch.

RO

NPR Derives 41% of Funding From YOUR Taxes

How Public Is NPR's Funding? Options
By Mark Browning

De-fund NPR! In the wake of the firing of Juan Williams by National
Public Radio, we've once again heard conservative voices issue that
call. NPR representatives respond, as they always do when their
dependence on government purse strings is noted, by arguing that only
two or three percent of the service's money comes from the federal
government. NPR apologist Norah O'Donnell recently threw out a one to
three-percent figure on MSNBC.

Norah's New Math Grossly Understates NPR's Fed Fundinghttp://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/10/22/norahs-n...

We don't see these people volunteering to give up that three percent,
but we have to admit that this amount of funding is not the gigantic
boondoggle we might prefer to oppose. Is this three-percent number a
fair claim by the NPR crowd? Apparently, in a very limited sense, it
is, but in a more comprehensive analysis, it is nowhere near
accurate.

To understand NPR funding, we have to recognize that public radio is a
two-tier operation. There is, on the one hand, the network itself, the
Washington-based producer of programs that actually terminated Juan
Williams' contract. On the other hand, there is the collection of some
nine hundred NPR affiliate radio stations who bring this programming
to radios around the United States. We cannot hope to understand NPR's
finances without understanding the stations as well, so let's begin
there.

- According to information available from the NPR
- website [Oct 2010],
- http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/pu...ofinances.html
- local radio station money comes from the following sources:

Actually Each and Every US Tax Payer Pays For
All of CPB & PBS & NPR Costs
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