On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Nope. NPR sent an email stating they could accept the $5 million as from anonymous after the meeting. > 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!) Much more so. I saw nothing wrong with the Walker punking. He didn't even seem to know the Koch brothers. > 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). He wasn't CEO but she was fired also. Pat Buchanan? Really? They have some good programs but they are so damn biased against common sense. > 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. National security in WWII Germany maybe. You do realize biased news is not in the best interest of our nation. > 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. Really, you think it's a risk? > So for me, this so so much ado about so so little. The fact that NPR is proven to be biased should alarm you. The fact that they wanted to hide terrorist money should really alarm you. > That having been said, if you can't agree to cut NPR how are you going to > tackle Medicare? I think even NPR agrees they'd be better off without Fed money. > In any event, I consider local public broadcasting affiliate stations a > national security assest and thus should be one of the last things cut. They should prove themselves worthy of the money but since they can't, tough shit. > And finally, NPR only gets something like 5% or 10% of it's annual budget > You just said it was 2% You're just guessing as you ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:335073 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
