NPR hires lobbying firm in effort to keep taxpayer funding

[Jaggy001]

So just how much funding does NPR get from the feds?

"In 2009, member stations derived 6% of their revenue from federal, state and local government funding, 10% of their revenue from CPB grants, and 14% of their revenue from universities."

NPR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So I make that a total of $10.8 million from tax dollars.

Of course, Big Oil gets $4 billion of tax breaks and they are lobbying a whole lot more to keep it

[hawkeye2009]

Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal

I wonder if taxpayer dollars are paying for that lobbying effort? It appears they might.

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Here is a radical idea for NPR. Why not just try objective journalism? Oh, right, I forgot. Object journalism is dead- never mind.

[dreamofmonterey]

Originally Posted by Strel

OMG they hired a lobbyist!

Wait, why should I care?

Go NPR.

Lol NPR is a mere ripple. Notice the far right cant calculate big-oil's corruption.

Before the Deep Horizon rig exploded and sank off the Louisiana coast, oil companies were already paying lobbyists millions to protect their interests in climate-change talks and backing that up with campaign donations to key members of the Senate and House of Representatives, disclosure filings show.
With a giant oil spill now threatening the U.S. Gulf Coast and possibly endangering the faraway shores of the Atlantic, some analysts say the industry's hopes of new U.S. offshore drilling leases could be set back five years.
"It is a perfect storm," said Ken Green of the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank. "Lobbying won't do much good because no politician is going to stand up and say: 'This is O.K.' It's a huge black eye for oil companies."
At least three committees in Congress plan to investigate the disaster. BP could be in for billions of dollars in clean-up costs and analysts say the industry may face new government demands for costly safety standard upgrades and tax and royalty concessions.
Yet the industry has plenty of financial firepower and political sway to meet the challenge.
"There's no understating how powerful the oil and gas lobby is," said Dave Levinthal of the nonpartisan watchdog Center for Responsive Politics, which says the industry spent a record $169 million on lobbying in 2009 -- far outstripping the $22 million spent by environmental interests.

[outbacknv]

Originally Posted by dreamofmonterey

Lol NPR is a mere ripple. Notice the far right cant calculate big-oil's corruption.

Before the Deep Horizon rig exploded and sank off the Louisiana coast, oil companies were already paying lobbyists millions to protect their interests in climate-change talks and backing that up with campaign donations to key members of the Senate and House of Representatives, disclosure filings show.
With a giant oil spill now threatening the U.S. Gulf Coast and possibly endangering the faraway shores of the Atlantic, some analysts say the industry's hopes of new U.S. offshore drilling leases could be set back five years.
"It is a perfect storm," said Ken Green of the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank. "Lobbying won't do much good because no politician is going to stand up and say: 'This is O.K.' It's a huge black eye for oil companies."
At least three committees in Congress plan to investigate the disaster. BP could be in for billions of dollars in clean-up costs and analysts say the industry may face new government demands for costly safety standard upgrades and tax and royalty concessions.
Yet the industry has plenty of financial firepower and political sway to meet the challenge.
"There's no understating how powerful the oil and gas lobby is," said Dave Levinthal of the nonpartisan watchdog Center for Responsive Politics, which says the industry spent a record $169 million on lobbying in 2009 -- far outstripping the $22 million spent by environmental interests.

Both parties are in bed with big oil (and scores of other interests). Aside from the rhetoric they spew to placate their faithful there is really very little difference between them.

Government represents government and it's major contributors. It has little if any use for the rest of us other than during election times.

[Boompa]

The other day I watched a show on NPR which was brought to me by a grant from David Koch