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mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 16508 Location: under the bed

i guess 'cause it's another thing that makes NPR look bad, especially to the republicans that want to kill all the funding, and they are hoping maybe they can still save the funding.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:09 am Post subject:

That's part of what infuriated me: he's not part of NPR anymore and nothing he says or any of his responses are offensive. They try to get him to say 'inflammatory statements' (mind you, inflammatory to teapartiers) but he INSANELY artfully and democratically sidesteps them.

Ironically, watching the video makes me like Schiller more, but then again I'm not a teaparty member.
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nathan · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 6277

I swear to god, if they defund NPR this shit is going to get PERSONAL.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:33 am Post subject:

Well, according to Schiller, NPR would lose 1% of it's funding w/o Uncle Sam, while the station network as a whole would lose 10%, with many individual stations being forced to close down completely.
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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11814 Location: Unknown Kaddath

That's because NPR, the company, is just a producer/distributor of programming. Local stations sign up to be members which gives them access to NPR's material. NPR only gets a tiny (single-digit percentage) slice of its revenue from grants by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, but member stations depend somewhat more heavily on government subsidies as well as donations and underwriting.

I was recently arguing with someone who said that NPR gets stations "for free." I tried to point out that NPR doesn't actually own stations, local non-commercial outfits do, and that those frequencies are reserved for non-commercial (not necessarily NPR) usage, and other groups that aren't affiliated with NPR have access to those frequencies. He didn't care, in fact he wanted ALL of the reserved non-commercial frequencies auctioned off, under the argument that the current system amounted to giving NPR "billions" of dollars' worth in station frequencies. All this had something to do with NPR's "bias" and how the government shouldn't fund such biased organizations.

nathan · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 6277

Completely agree.

That's why I think the national parks should be auctioned off to the highest bidder. All those non-profit citizens are just MILKING that shit. And make no mistake: it's the taxpayer eating the cost of all that free access.

Disgusting.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:30 pm Post subject:

Mizike · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 5123 Location: Iowa City

Presented without comment.
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mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 16508 Location: under the bed

Mizike · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 5123 Location: Iowa City

mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 16508 Location: under the bed

ah. and since officials actually learned of the suicide during obama's speech, it is clear that the speech is totally responsible for the suicide. no matter how much earlier it might have happened.
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Mizike · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 5123 Location: Iowa City

Dear Nederlanders,

I realize that you have some political problems of your own, what with Geert Wilders and your stupid burqa ban and all, but could you please do us Youessians a favor? Take Pete Hoekstra back. We gave him a chance, but it's just not working out.

Predictably, he's calling it satire: