Michael Dinowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm surprised that no one brought this one up. NPR executives dining with > (fake) Muslim Brotherhood affiliates and basically saying things that > should > (and did) get them fired. >
Not agreeing with you on this one, but granted I'm not following it much. I think the guy saying the bad stuff had already resigned, said his opinions were his own, and I believe that he refused the money they were offering multiple times. In other words, you've got a guy who had resigned expressing his own views. I guess this isn't nearly as controversial as the WI governor to me, but to each his own. (I'd like to see all sales meetings taped - that'd be some good watching!) Further, the question really has nothing to do with this guy even if he was CEO; the question would be the quality of NPR journalism which is considered some of the highest in country (even Pat Buchanan agrees with that). And beyond that there's the question of whether we should have a tax-payer funded public broadcasting company. IMO, it's of critical national security that we do. We'd be fools to lack a solid national communication infrastructure that could be used by our government to communicate with its people in times of an emergency. Lastly, NPR itself only gets about 2% of its budget from taxpayers. They should give that up. The bitching and moaning isn't worth it. My bigger concern is the local stations that get 50%; they'd be shut down. And therein lies the national security risk. So for me, this so so much ado about so so little. That having been said, if you can't agree to cut NPR how are you going to tackle Medicare? In any event, I consider local public broadcasting affiliate stations a national security assest and thus should be one of the last things cut. And finally, NPR only gets something like 5% or 10% of it's annual budget ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335042 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
