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National Public Radio, who recently fired Juan Williams for exercising his free speech and saying something they didn't find politically correct, has insisted that tax payers contribute far less than 25%; like maybe 4%. But, analysts are now estimating that the figure is more like 25% or higher. Since the firing of Juan Williams, there has been a call to withdraw Government Funding of NPR since they do not seem to be unbiasedly presenting news for all the people and instead tend to stifle free speech that does not agree with their liberal agenda. Hopefully, this push will continue come January.
NPR/PBS is the ACORN of the elite side of liberalism.
AKA the Honey Hole of funding.
Good one! Hopefully, Gingrich, Huckabee and others will follow through with their words spoken following the firing of Juan Williams and cut all Government aka tax payer funding of this biased media.
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NPR is a very good thing. It has programming that cannot be found elsewhere and is very unique and deserves to be a 1st class operation. It probably cost each taxpayer less than 50 cents a year. Although I am not an "artsy fartsy" type of person, for people who are NPR performs a valuable service. It plays classical music which is not found on commercial radio. It has in depth news programs not heard anywhere else. Was it wrong to fire Williams? Yes. And he should be rehired and apologized to. Is it liberally biased? To an extent but not openly liberal or political as MSNBC is by any means. It is more like NPR is ran and programmed by very educated people (which is why many of the stations are on college campuses) and very educated people tend to be towards the liberal end of the political spectrum.
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Originally Posted by GottaBMe
National Public Radio, who recently fired Juan Williams for exercising his free speech and saying something they didn't find politically correct, has insisted that tax payers contribute far less than 25%; like maybe 4%. But, analysts are now estimating that the figure is more like 25% or higher. Since the firing of Juan Williams, there has been a call to withdraw Government Funding of NPR since they do not seem to be unbiasedly presenting news for all the people and instead tend to stifle free speech that does not agree with their liberal agenda. Hopefully, this push will continue come January.
Another thing wrong with this logic is that the stations are often in academic buildings on campuses. OK so the taxpayers pay for the space, electricity and heating for that space, how are they going to quantify what to "cut" from the college to cut from the radio station's budget?
National Public Radio, who recently fired Juan Williams for exercising his free speech and saying something they didn't find politically correct, has insisted that tax payers contribute far less than 25%; like maybe 4%. But, analysts are now estimating that the figure is more like 25% or higher. Since the firing of Juan Williams, there has been a call to withdraw Government Funding of NPR since they do not seem to be unbiasedly presenting news for all the people and instead tend to stifle free speech that does not agree with their liberal agenda. Hopefully, this push will continue come January.
NPR is a very good thing. It has programming that cannot be found elsewhere and is very unique and deserves to be a 1st class operation. It probably cost each taxpayer less than 50 cents a year. Although I am not an "artsy fartsy" type of person, for people who are NPR performs a valuable service. It plays classical music which is not found on commercial radio. It has in depth news programs not heard anywhere else. Was it wrong to fire Williams? Yes. And he should be rehired and apologized to. Is it liberally biased? To an extent but not openly liberal or political as MSNBC is by any means. It is more like NPR is ran and programmed by very educated people (which is why many of the stations are on college campuses) and very educated people tend to be towards the liberal end of the political spectrum.
Then they should have no problem operating on advertizing dollars instead of MY dollars.
National Public Radio, who recently fired Juan Williams for exercising his free speech and saying something they didn't find politically correct, has insisted that tax payers contribute far less than 25%; like maybe 4%. But, analysts are now estimating that the figure is more like 25% or higher. Since the firing of Juan Williams, there has been a call to withdraw Government Funding of NPR since they do not seem to be unbiasedly presenting news for all the people and instead tend to stifle free speech that does not agree with their liberal agenda. Hopefully, this push will continue come January.
By "analysts," do you mean a guy who writes for American Thinker?
Typical Fox associative photo, too -- they know their "readers" are the picturebook type.
Seems to me the analysis is quite sound. If we're at the store and I give you $5 to purchase something who paid for it? NPR is lowering the percentage of taxpayer funds by not counting the funds they receive from other taxpayer funded sources as taxpayer funds. This isn't rocket science.
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