Goodsounds;479641 Wrote: > The information I found says that's being treated as an permanent > endowment and so only earnings are spent. That would amount to less than > 10% of their spending.
you're right, although it depends on how much it earns and how much is reinvested, (and given the times, how much the endowment may indeed have lost the last couple of years). the "national" npr has a annual budget the last ten years of anywhere between 100-150 million. it gets about 20-25% from corporate sponsors, another 5-15% from the endowment, and the rest is made up largely of member station dues, with some smattering of direct fed money and other foundations. however, it is important to note that very often the member dues from the 700+ stations is often substationally tax subsidized. in other words, a lot of the member stations get a lot of their income which they then put towards national npr dues from taxpayers. Goodsounds;479641 Wrote: > Of course. Isn't that the case for most nonprofits and governmental > organizations? no. first off you left out the last part i said, which is they get tons of taxpayer dollars. that alone makes them different from "most" non-profits and NGOs. most don't get any, and the ones that do, don't get nearly as much. (i assume u meant NGO b/c npr is a NGO, and b/c "gov't organizations" by definition would obviously get tax dollars). but secondly, i don't think other non-profits and ngo's have as many useless people as npr does. you could fire half of them and it wouldn't impact programming one bit. Goodsounds;479641 Wrote: > They're sluggish and bureaucratic and for-profit organizations can be > the same. no, that simply isn't true. a for profit won't stick around forever if its inefficient. sooner or later a competitor will force them to be as efficient or they shutter. no such pressure in the tax funded world. Goodsounds;479641 Wrote: > NPR produces some good stuff and some crap. I find some of their stuff > too Washington Beltway-centric for my taste. most americans don't listen to npr. it reaches about 5-6% of the population, mostly upper class white liberals. i don't care what they program, or what bias it may or may not have. what offends me is the tax money flowing into it, esp when it is already tax exempt, that is literally just wasted on salaries of useless people. there was a time it made sense to tax fund pbs/npr b/c media options were limited and something that focused on non-commerical subjects was good. but that time has come and gone. what NEED do they fulfill now that is so dire they deserve taxpayers money? the marketplace is totally different today. npr/pbs offends my sensibilities as a taxpayer. imo, they should learn to live off of funding they can generate outside tax dollars, and then i'd have no beef with anything they did. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.4.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 35k mp3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70539 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
