NPR is a Propaganda Outlet

OK, so this thread went to COMUNISM! real fucking fast.

I just went out for some groceries and the wholesome make fun of the poor white nazi boi turned into communism sucks.

I want to go back to how Federal fetus is a fucking moron.

You guy suck sometimes, I am going to go smoke some weed to makes this shitses interestings.

This is your thread Buckaroo and your statement.

Please educate us on NPRs funding model.

You made the claim. You back it up.

I was fired from Glenn Beck's Blaze Network because I wouldn't slant my newscasts to fit their paranoid, racist hatred of Obama. Just sayin'

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Mark 8:36 & 37

This is why journalism suffers as much as it does. Finding people with principles, who will put their job on the line rather than compromise them, is commendable, but much rarer than it once was, at least higher up the food chain. I know it's not a well deserved paycheck, Mike, but we need more people like you.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3950550-the-truth-about-nprs-funding-and-its-possible-future/

thank you for your service

Is this where we have to have yet another discussion about opinion pieces versus news reports.

C’mon Skippy. You seem really interested in NPR. Explain to us their funding model.

No. Read what I posted.

As I thought.

I read what you posted. I couldn't help but notice that, while the author threw a bunch of numbers out there, he was quite uninterested in connecting the dots to demonstrate what portion of NPR's funding originated with the federal government — even though he should have been able to do so.

Look closely at what he actually says, and what he simply tries to imply. For instance, he notes — correctly — that the $90 million of NPR revenue that comes from member station payments is more than 1% of its budget. However, while he implies that this is all federal funding, saying "One can think of these funds as federal grants that have been sent from Washington — but returned to it," he doesn't actually demonstrate what he implies. This should be one of your major clues that he's trying to obfuscate.

Luckily for us, it is trivially easy to pick any NPR station in the country and see how much of their revenue comes from government grants. You want to look at their Form 990, Part VIII. I chose WGTE in northwest Ohio. Whoopsie-daisy ... looks like government grants (from all levels, not just federal) total only 8% of their revenue! Meanwhile, corporate and foundation sponsorships are 54% and individual memberships are 37%. So while the author of your opinion piece tried very hard to make us think that NPR's member station revenue should all be counted as federal funds, that is in fact far from being true.

When you read a piece like this, you have to pay close attention to where the author is specific, and where they're vague. You can learn a lot from that.

Great now we can move now that we've established that NPR does get some federal funding.

Congratulations on demonstrating something that was never in dispute. Yes, a small sliver of NPR's funding comes from the federal government. Therefore ... what? They're obligated to be as intellectually dishonest as your favored media outlets?

It gets more fun when you look at WHERE the NPR funding goes.

Almost all their grants go to rural stations. KUOW (University Of Washington [the UOW in KUOW] - Seattle’s main NPR news station) is totally listener, private grants and local business funded.

Now there is an argument that they indirectly benefit from Federal Funds in that these grants allow rural stations to also purchase content which could lower the price for KUOW but now we are going multiple layers deep which I’m sure Our Boy couldn’t comprehend much less express…

Random WF history lore.

I had no idea about the call letter requirement until I moved out how back in ‘07 and commented on how it was weird that all the radio and TV station call letters started with K and not the proper W and I forget if it was @shootER or @MikeH92467 responded with ‘Yeah dumbass. You are west of the Mississippi now. East is W, West is K’ and I seriously had no idea before that and it blew my mind. I thought all radio and TV stations had to start with W. It was just how everything worked!

And now I am triple posting myself but I believe the discussion happened because I was shocked that KUBE 93 (the main rap and hip hop station in Seattle) didn’t play gospel music Sunday mornings until noon when church got out. I compared it to WBLX (W - Blacks) in Mobile which always honored church time and then wondered about the different call letters.

(As Ten Lubak)
This is why no one takes you seriously.

Oh wow it's been a while since FF has posted a thread just to let everyone point and laugh at him. I love these things.

Has anyone pointed out that Captain Marvel also received US government sponsorship?

Thank you all for your support and kind thoughts. I actually saved the emails from their "consultant" pointing out how AP was "wrong" and how to slant stories. I think I erased them at some point. I mean, so what...really? Anyway, the "W" and "K" conventions weren't formally adopted until (I think) the 30's. There are a few oddities that were grandfathered such as KDKA in Pittsburgh and WVUV in American Samoa. And now back to our regular FF bashing...

When a colleague got laid off by CBS Newspath in Dallas he worked for some fucking Dana Loesch show on The Blaze as a writer and producer.

A year later he got laid off when they cut the staff for that show.

From what I know about him, he'd probably still be at The Blaze if it weren't for the layoffs.

One of my friends from the Tampa radio station Beck started his talk career at joined Beck after getting laid off by Cheap Channel. I remember talking to him about it and he sighed and said "It's Glenn's world and I'm just living in it." Blaze paid more per hour than anybody I ever worked for in the biz. I needed the money, but not that badly.

So @RickDeckard are you willfully blind or a useful idiot? My suspicion is that you're the latter.

You're the one just repeating the hysterical state dogma here. I'd say you're the useful idiot.

China isn't internally a very nice place to live, but it is not externally aggressive. The US - which is itself extraordinarily aggressive - is attempting to create this impression due to the fact that Chinese economic growth threatens their hegemony.

If one takes those things as having any meaning beyond propaganda terms, then their existence in the west is both highly debatable and under relentless attack from powerful forces within our societies. If China has a policy in this regard then its effect seems to me to be insignificant compared to that.

And FF embraces the Great Replacement theory....my days of not taking you seriously have certainly come to a middle.

but he's totally NOT a racist...

I was wrong. You're both.

Getting back to Mr. Berliner’s piece for a moment, he completely fails to tell the story about how NPR is trashed on a daily basis by conservative media throughout the country.

When you are such a big punching bag, and you can’t/won’t fight back for fear of losing funding, it becomes increasingly difficult to attract the small number of principled, conservative journalists to your organization.

As for the laptop story, dear God man, how many times does this need to be said. The laptop was being covered wall to wall on Fox News. Trump brought it up in the presidential debate and everyone not on the right collectively shrugged. James Comer’s failing investigation has proven it to be an unimportant story. Stick to the business and sports stories Mr. Berliner.

This, a million times.

It's been that way for decades. Same for PBS when, in reality, NewsHour is the most fair, balanced, and accurate news outfit among all of the ones on broadcast television.