Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

[Joe Contrarian]

Juan Williams: Going Rogue

by Sarah Palin on Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 10:45am

At a time when our country is dangerously in debt and looking for areas of federal spending to cut, I think we’ve found a good candidate for defunding. National Public Radio is a public institution that directly or indirectly exists because the taxpayers fund it. And what do we, the taxpayers, get for this? We get to witness Juan Williams being fired from NPR for merely speaking frankly about the very real threat this country faces from radical Islam.

We have to have an honest discussion about the jihadist threat. Are we not allowed to say that Muslim terrorists have killed thousands of Americans and continue to plot the deaths of thousands more? Are we not allowed to say that there are Muslim states that aid and abet these fanatics? Are we not allowed to even debate the role that radical Islam plays in inciting this violence?

I don’t expect Juan Williams to support me (he’s said some tough things about me in the past) – but I will always support his right and the right of all Americans to speak honestly about the threats this country faces. And for Juan, speaking honestly about these issues isn’t just his right, it’s his job. Up until yesterday, he was doing that job at NPR. Firing him is their loss.

If NPR is unable to tolerate an honest debate about an issue as important as Islamic terrorism, then it’s time for “National Public Radio” to become “National Private Radio.” It’s time for Congress to defund this organization.

NPR says its mission is “to create a more informed public,” but by stifling debate on these issues, NPR is doing exactly the opposite. President Obama should make clear his commitment to free and honest discussion of the jihadist threat in our public debates – and Congress should make clear that unless NPR provides that public service, not one more dime.

Mr. President, what say you?

- Sarah Palin

 

[Joe Contrarian]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

I think NPR should be de-funded, period.

 

[tank]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

Yes Sarah let's just let Fox News tell us all what to think.They are okay though when they agree with you right??

 

[Joe Contrarian]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

"You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste; it’s an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid."
– Rahm Emanuel

The time has come to dump NPR. :thumbsup

 

[tank]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

They get 2% of their funding from the government !!Yeah Sarah let's cut that off and really hurt them you stupid , dumb, retarded piece of shit.Any other stupid whining and crying petty shit you want to ball your eyes out over??Get over it you retard.

 

[mr merlin]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

They get 2% of their funding from the government !!Yeah Sarah let's cut that off and really hurt them you stupid , dumb, retarded piece of shit.Any other stupid whining and crying petty shit you want to ball your eyes out over??Get over it you retard.

It's a lot more than 2% tank, much of their funding comes from fees the local public stations pay to them, those local stations are getting much of the money they use to pay those fees from govt funding. In an age of 500 cable stations and instant internet, cutting govt funding for this type of thing is an easy call.

 

[Joe Contrarian]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

They get 2% of their funding from the government !!Yeah Sarah let's cut that off and really hurt them you stupid , dumb, retarded piece of shit.Any other stupid whining and crying petty shit you want to ball your eyes out over??Get over it you retard.

Feel the hate from the EOG's illiterate misogynist. 2938u4ji23

 

[tank]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

It's a lot more than 2% tank, much of their funding comes from fees the local public stations pay to them, those local stations are getting much of the money they use to pay those fees from govt funding. In an age of 500 cable stations and instant internet, cutting govt funding for this type of thing is an easy call.

Funding

In 2009 NPR revenues totaled $164 million, with the bulk of revenues coming from programming fees, grants, contributions and sponsorships.<sup id="cite_ref-npr_13-0" class="reference">[14]</sup> According to the 2009 financial statement, about 40% of NPR revenues come from the fees it charges member stations to receive programming. Typically, NPR member stations raise funds through on-air pledge drives, corporate underwriting, and grants from state governments, universities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 2009, member stations derived 6% of their revenue from local funding and 10% of their revenue from the federal funding in the form of CPB grants.<sup id="cite_ref-npr_13-1" class="reference">[14]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-NPR_Responds_14-0" class="reference">[15]</sup> NPR receives no direct funding from the federal government.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference">[16]</sup> About 1.5% of NPR's revenues come from Corporation for Public Broadcasting grants.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, the majority of NPR funding came from the federal government. Steps were taken during the 1980s to completely wean NPR from government support, but the 1983 funding crisis forced the network to make immediate changes. More money to fund the NPR network was raised from listeners, charitable foundations and corporations instead.<sup class="Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from October 2010" style="white-space: nowrap;">[citat</sup>

 

[tank]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

Feel the hate from the EOG's illiterate misogynist. 2938u4ji23

I usually save that for the pretend American's from Canada.I hate frauds!!

 

[mr merlin]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

Funding

In 2009 NPR revenues totaled $164 million, with the bulk of revenues coming from programming fees, grants, contributions and sponsorships.<sup id="cite_ref-npr_13-0" class="reference">[14]</sup> According to the 2009 financial statement, about 40% of NPR revenues come from the fees it charges member stations to receive programming. Typically, NPR member stations raise funds through on-air pledge drives, corporate underwriting, and grants from state governments, universities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 2009, member stations derived 6% of their revenue from local funding and 10% of their revenue from the federal funding in the form of CPB grants.<sup id="cite_ref-npr_13-1" class="reference">[14]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-NPR_Responds_14-0" class="reference">[15]</sup> NPR receives no direct funding from the federal government.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference">[16]</sup> About 1.5% of NPR's revenues come from Corporation for Public Broadcasting grants.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, the majority of NPR funding came from the federal government. Steps were taken during the 1980s to completely wean NPR from government support, but the 1983 funding crisis forced the network to make immediate changes. More money to fund the NPR network was raised from listeners, charitable foundations and corporations instead.<sup class="Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from October 2010" style="white-space: nowrap;">[citat</sup>

Thats pretty much what I said, isn't it?

 

[tank]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

Thats pretty much what I said, isn't it?

Even with the member stations only getting 10% from the government it is not going to hurt NPR.

 

[mr merlin]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

Even with the member stations only getting 10% from the government it is not going to hurt NPR.

Well, then I guess if we cut off those scraps of money, nobody gets hurt and everyone's happy.

 

[Joe Contrarian]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

De-funding NPR/CPB is the canary in the coalmine for whether Republicans have the spine to slash other useless and costly progressive programs and institutions, especially Obamacare. If they can't pull the trigger on even that, we'll know what to expect the next two years: nothing.

What then? Revolution?

 

[Joe Contrarian]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

Oops, the anti-American misogynist is wrong again! :doh1

October 25, 2010
How Public Is NPR's Funding?

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.

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, local radio station money comes from the following sources:

32.1% Individual contributions

21.1% Business contributions

13.6% University funds

10.1% Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds

9.6% Foundation money

5.6% Federal, state, and local government funds

7.6% Other

At first glance, this distribution of funds seems to confirm that public radio's support does not come in large amounts from the direct allocation of tax moneys. After all, 5.6% is not a gigantic portion of the budget, is it? But let's look more closely. That 10.1% that comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is 99% provided by -- you guessed it -- the federal government. Those university funds, whenever they are provided by a public university, represent taxpayer-provided dollars. We can safely assert that three out of four university-supported stations are publicly funded, which means that more than 10% (three-quarters of that 13.6%) is taken from the taxpayer's pockets.

So far, we find that NPR member stations count on direct or indirect taxpayer money for some 25% of their funds -- and that's before we consider some of the largest portions of their budgets.

Obviously the support by individuals, businesses, and foundations does not constitute taxpayer funding, right? Not so fast. These donations are tax-deductible; thus, they are subsidized by the government. Granted, not every gift is actually reflected on an individual or business tax return, and not all of those that are itemized wind up offsetting high marginal tax rates. Still, it is reasonable to believe that on average, these gifts result in deductions at the 25% tax bracket. Since these three categories add up to roughly 64% of station funds, we can reasonably argue that 16% of that money (64% x 0.25) is subsidized by the tax code.

In the end, then, local NPR affiliates derive something like 41% of their funding from taxes, either directly or indirectly. 2938u4ji23

What about the entity that generated all the buzz for firing Juan Williams? Interestingly, despite their conflicting 2% and 3% claims, the NPR website says, "We receive no direct federal funding for operations." Of course, that sort of statement leaves open the possibility of receiving direct federal funding for other purposes. What are those? They don't volunteer that information easily. What they do point out prominently is that the biggest source of money is from member stations. Local stations pay dues and fees for the programs they rebroadcast. This money, recorded as Station Programming Fees (40%), Membership Dues (1%), and Distribution Services (8%), accounts for nearly half of NPR's funds.

Why is this significant? You do recall that some 41% of local station money came from taxpayers, right? If 50% of funding comes from money that is 40% derived from taxes, then another 20% of NPR's budget comes, indirectly, from taxpayers. Twenty percent! That's a long way from the 2%-3% figures, isn't it?

The next huge chunk of NPR income comes from "Sponsorships." These are the things that, in any other media outlet, would be called advertisements. We could argue that sponsorship money is tax-deductible and therefore partly taxpayer-funded, but, lest we look like double-standard-wielding lefties, we would have to make the same argument for the ads that car companies run on ABC and CBS. Let's face it: virtually every large corporation in America enjoys some form of government largesse. That's what happens when government tentacles reach into all portions of our lives.

On the other hand, there is much more clarity when we look to the 10% "Grants and Contributions" category that represents direct taxpayer gifting (most prominently by way of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) and indirect taxpayer support by way of tax deductions. Is it reasonable to say that half of that 10% comes in one way or another from taxes? I think so, but I'll settle for saying that this category adds just 3% to the total. This brings our total of taxpayer support for the entire NPR budget to around 23%.

Given that only 89% of the NPR income pie comes from external sources (the rest coming from investment returns), it is not unreasonable to assert that more than 25% of NPR funds from outside sources actually comes from taxpayers. That's not an overwhelming portion of the budget, but it's a long way from two to three percent.

As annoying as I find the bias at MSNBC or the New York Times, I will respect to the end their right to be as biased as they'd like. What they do with their money and whatever funds they can convince advertisers to kick in is their own business. The same does not apply to the likes of NPR. That's your money and my money going into their coffers and funding that unbalanced message. We need to demand that NPR either be pushed away from the public trough or be required to present a modicum of evenhandedness.

 

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Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

De-funding NPR/CPB is the canary in the coalmine for whether Republicans have the spine to slash other useless and costly progressive programs and institutions, especially Obamacare. If they can't pull the trigger on even that, we'll know what to expect the next two years: nothing.

What then? Revolution?

:LMAOI take it you do not know that Bush tried to de-fund it every year do you??Why did it not go through when Republicans controlled all 3 branches??:LMAO

 

[tank]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

Funding

In 2009 NPR revenues totaled $164 million, with the bulk of revenues coming from programming fees, grants, contributions and sponsorships.<sup id="cite_ref-npr_13-0" class="reference">[14]</sup> According to the 2009 financial statement, about 40% of NPR revenues come from the fees it charges member stations to receive programming. Typically, NPR member stations raise funds through on-air pledge drives, corporate underwriting, and grants from state governments, universities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 2009, member stations derived 6% of their revenue from local funding and 10% of their revenue from the federal funding in the form of CPB grants.<sup id="cite_ref-npr_13-1" class="reference">[14]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-NPR_Responds_14-0" class="reference">[15]</sup> NPR receives no direct funding from the federal government.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference">[16]</sup> About 1.5% of NPR's revenues come from Corporation for Public Broadcasting grants.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, the majority of NPR funding came from the federal government. Steps were taken during the 1980s to completely wean NPR from government support, but the 1983 funding crisis forced the network to make immediate changes. More money to fund the NPR network was raised from listeners, charitable foundations and corporations instead.<sup class="Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from October 2010" style="white-space: nowrap;">[citat</sup>

Her Joe in case you missed it the first time.They did fine in the 80's and will be fine now if they have to be.

 

[Joe Contrarian]

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I take it you do not know that Bush tried to de-fund it every year do you??Why did it not go through when Republicans controlled all 3 branches??

Of course I know.

That's one of the reasons why the RINOs lost power.

 

[Joe Contrarian]

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Think I?ts Over On November 2nd? NPR CEO Plans Government Takeover Of News Services

Posted on October 26, 2010 by John L. Work

Vivian Schiller, CEO - NPR

Behold above the benign-appearing face of the aspiring 21^st Century minister of propaganda.

Over at www.TownHall.com Tara Servatius is reporting on a planned government takeover, through National Public Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, of all national for-profit news services. It?s all been engineered by NPR?s CEO who recently fired Juan Williams and suggested that he discuss his nervousness about boarding planes with Muslim passengers with a psychiatrist. Vivian Schiller?s master plan, which she has named the Public Media Platform, will involve taxing all news outlets to raise funds for the project, which has been seeded by a 1.8 billion dollar donation from leftist billionaire George Soros.

Schiller?s theory is that commercial news outlets are dying out and the new project will fill the void left by the dead companies. From Servatius? report comes this:

Last week, National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller took a break from her crusade for a government takeover of the media to swat a fly. With now-former NPR analyst Juan Williams suitably splattered across the evening news after politically incorrect comments he made on Fox News, Schiller can return to her real passion ? the creation of a national network to ensure that in the future, you get your news from the government in general and NPR in particular.

Schiller could barely contain her rage at Fox News and at Williams last week, saying he should discuss his fear of boarding a plane with Muslim passengers with ?his psychiatrist.? Those who understand what is at stake saw the Williams/Schiller dust up for what it really was ? a declaration of war by one of the most powerful women in journalism against for-profit, non-liberal media. If Schiller and her liberal friends have their way, Fox and its viewers will pay the bill for her new government news network.

As Schiller explained in a speech to the NPR board of directors in 2009, it is public radio?s responsibility to fill the gap in journalism left by dying local television stations and newspapers.

Schiller, a former New York Times executive, is one of a few dozen power players working with the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and a leftist group called Free Press to ?reinvent journalism.?

That?s how the FTC describes it. The FCC calls what they are doing the ?Future of Journalism.? Free Press, a think tank funded by leftist billionaire George Soros, among others, calls it ?the new public media.?

It?s all the same thing, a plan to take over local news coverage from for-profit television, radio and print media, which Schiller and her friends claim is in danger of extinction. These ?friends? get together regularly with the heads of the FCC and FTC to brainstorm the details in government and congressional meetings. These meetings include the leaders of all the country?s public broadcasting outlets, including PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and American Public Media.

They are beefing up their staffs in local news markets with herds of public news reporters to ?take over? coverage as commercial media fails. Nationwide, this will cost $40 billion to $60 billion over a decade, they believe. Their plans, according to the FCC?s Future of Media report, are to raise this money by taxing for-profit news organizations ? the ones whose reporting Schiller is supposedly trying to ?save.? They want to charge ?spectrum fees? of five percent of broadcast station revenues for use of the public spectrum and airwaves, which the government controls. They figure that could bring in $1.8 billion a year. A one percent tax on all electronic devices like cell phones, televisions and laptops could bring in billions more. So would a monthly fee on internet subscriptions.

While conservatives were busy arguing that NPR should be defunded in the wake of the Williams debacle, Schiller was putting the finishing touches on the national infrastructure NPR has launched to deliver this new government news product to cities across the nation. A decade ago, defunding NPR would have sufficed. To stop Schiller now, Republicans would have to defund PBS and CPB as well to have any hope of torpedoing her plans to build a nationwide news delivery system in the style of the BBC, but on steroids. Schiller imagines a national public print, television and radio news leviathan that would compete with the top five news companies in the news industry.

?We can create a national network around all of public radio that provides the kind of public service that is being not provided by other media companies that are suffering,? Schiller told Cyberjournalist.net. Never mind that her planned confiscation of their revenues will cause them more suffering and possibly send them to an early death.

Schiller calls her creation the Public Media Platform, and the left is very excited about it. It?s a digital network in partnership with all the nation?s public news providers, built to distribute their news locally, regionally and nationally. NPR has already built a state-of-the-art internal ?wire? service in the style of the Associated Press to carry and distribute the news. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting funded seven multi-million dollar regional journalism centers with news teams to produce and distribute the new public news product.

Finally, NPR?s Project Argo has launched news sites at 12 NPR stations in major cities staffed with local reporters. That?s where Soros?s recent $1.8 million donation to NPR comes in.

Those are start-up funds for the reporters to generate the public news product.

A May Free Press report describes NPR?s Public Media Platform as a first step in their plans for a government media takeover.

The platform is in the early stages, and its purpose is to attract billions more in government funding. ?We are going to strengthen and bolster our representation to Congress and to other entities that can help fund all of us,? Schiller told the NPR board in her 2009 speech about a public media takeover of news reporting.

All of this makes Schiller?s very public drop-kick of Williams far more than a hissy fit that got out of hand. It was a declaration of war against commercial media in general and Fox in particular. Who wins will be determined by what voters do at the ballot box in the coming years.

We already had TASS and Volkischer Beobachter as stenographers for long-deceased totalitarian governments. But the idea of complete control of the information we receive from news services lives on. Congress should immediately de-fund NPR and CPB.

 

[Joe Contrarian]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

Folks, it never ends because these progressive commies never give up. 2938u4ji23

 

[mr merlin]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

Anybody actually listen to npr? Kinda like msnbc, you know it's there, but you never actually tune in.(other than olbermann for the laughs)

 

[tank]

Re: Sarah Palin calls on Congress to stop funding NPR after the Juan Williams firing

Think I’ts Over On November 2nd? NPR CEO Plans Government Takeover Of News Services

Posted on October 26, 2010 by John L. Work

Vivian Schiller, CEO - NPR

Behold above the benign-appearing face of the aspiring 21^st Century minister of propaganda.

Over at www.TownHall.com Tara Servatius is reporting on a planned government takeover, through National Public Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, of all national for-profit news services. It’s all been engineered by NPR’s CEO who recently fired Juan Williams and suggested that he discuss his nervousness about boarding planes with Muslim passengers with a psychiatrist. Vivian Schiller’s master plan, which she has named the Public Media Platform, will involve taxing all news outlets to raise funds for the project, which has been seeded by a 1.8 billion dollar donation from leftist billionaire George Soros.

Schiller’s theory is that commercial news outlets are dying out and the new project will fill the void left by the dead companies. From Servatius’ report comes this:

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We already had TASS and Volkischer Beobachter as stenographers for long-deceased totalitarian governments. But the idea of complete control of the information we receive from news services lives on. Congress should immediately de-fund NPR and CPB.

:LMAOOh God!!!First the birth certificate and now the take over of the air waves!!:LMAOWhat kind of paranoid idiot lives his life this way with fear as the only purpose in life?We know of one poser that pretends to be an American but how many other stupid uneducated sheep buy this crap??