1. The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT gives no direct money to NPR. It gives very little money to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting who, in turn, supplies NPR with about 2% of its budget. The idiot at the WSJ also refers to "tax breaks and support of colleges that in turn, have radio stations that carry NPR"...well GE (General Electric) paid NO TAXES last year, nor did CitiBank or Bank of America. NONE. I propose that the WSJ can bitch all it wants about America's use of tax dollars in education but the big right wing corporations pay NO TAX so who are they bitching on behalf of?
2. THIS IS THE BIGGIE: PUBLIC RADIO is publicly supported in the majority....and that majority elected an administration and congress that reflects that majority and it is the majority will that programs like "car talk" and "all things considered" and "morning edition" programs that have been on air for decades, survive and are given a token amount of appreciation by the citizenry...and I mean token. DO YOU KNOW THAT WE SPEND LESS - INDIRECTLY ON NPR THAN IT TAKES TO RUN THE PENTAGON FOR 4 HOURS?
This is the clip that got Williams fired from NPR. I won't show the clip for the "outraged" right wing...NPR - that get's NO MONEY FROM THE GOVERNMENT and if you toss in the subsidy from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting at MOST puts the ante up to 2%....ohhh the dumb sh** right wing outrage....phony baloney.
Here are their programs:
news/talk
Morning Edition
All Things Considered
Fresh Air
The Diane Rehm Show
On The Media
On Point
State of the Reunion
Talk of the Nation
Tell Me More
Weekend Edition Saturday
Weekend Edition Sunday
entertainment
Car Talk
Radiolab
Snap Judgment
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me
music
All Songs Considered
From the Top
JazzSet
Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
Mountain Stage
Song of the Day
The Thistle & Shamrock
World Cafe
World of Opera
Here are their listeners ..... come from the left huh Bill? Seems down the middle except for the "smart" part.