Juan For The Money

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Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, October 2010 – “There’s a misperception about federal funding and public radio. There’s the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. They receive $90 million a year and a vast majority goes to member public radio stations. Those stations pull in more than $1 billion collectively a year. It’s significant and important but not even close to the lion’s share of revenues for public radio.”
NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, February, 2011 – “The elimination of federal funding would be a significant blow to nearly 900 public radio stations that serve the needs of more than 38 million Americans with free over-the-air programming they can’t find anywhere else.”
h/t POWinCA

26 Replies to “Juan For The Money”

  2. The statements were both consistent. If you are to juxtapose, the concept is to have contrasting statements. In both articles, the funds used were stated to be significant but were not the sole main source of funds. The second statement said that the loss of funding would be significant. It did not say it would terminate the Public Broadcaster.

  3. Robert, you are being gratuitous.
    Losing what amounts to 9% of funding is hardly “significant”.
    It’s only when that 9% comes from “soft” sources such as public funds that it becomes ‘significant”.

  4. reminds me of receivables collections; when you sold the item being collected on the purchaser tried to get a reduced price saying “come on, I wonly want $10 off,it’s only $10!”. When you tried to get the bill paid the purchaser (now debtor) would wail he didn’t have all the money including the “only $10”.
    When it’s my money it’s only $10. When it’s your money “it’s a whole $10!.

  5. Get used to the sounds of squealing recipients of taxpayer (more accurately, unborn taxpayers) as the taps are slowly starting to close.

  6. What I wanna know is .. when can we have an adult conversation about decoupling the CBC from the public coffer?

  7. more than 38 million Americans with free over-the-air programming they can’t find anywhere else.”
    Then WTH is that coming from the radio in my truck when I turn it on?

  9. BTW, even if NPR had nothing but great programming, I don’t think the government should pay for it. Government money will ruin anything over the course of time.

  10. NPR calls up the same type of dumbasses from the Universities and ‘think tanks’ that the CBC calls up – it gets very boring when you know exactly what they’re going to say. Shut’em down.

  11. Hello Carl, I was commenting on the consistency of her two statements to point out that she essentially held the same point on both disclosures. She said in 2010 “It’s significant and important but not even close to the lion’s share of revenues for public radio.” and in 2011 she said “elimination of federal funding would be a significant blow”. I do not know or defend this person, but her statements are consistent as she is not claiming that these loss of funds will destroy public broadcasting rather it will have an impact.
    Personally, I do not think public dollars should be used for entertainment. That includes Arenas, Stadiums, Fireworks, Theatres, Symphonies, and especially individual artists. If a person cannot make a living at something without Government help, then you either have no talent, no initiative or no ambition. Either way, change careers. As a side note, I am an artist and a musician and it pains me to see the deadwood floating around using government (our tax dollars) money to support their lifestyle. Survival of the fittest brings out the best in people and elevates our own standards. Supporting and holding up less talented, less creative and politically attached people to the same level as leaders in the respective fields, weakens the regard we have for the quest of perfection, and undermines the very field it endeavors to assist. People lose sight of the fact that during the very struggle that is our day to day life, it is within that framework that we produce our best work. Look at almost any artist, and once having secured a lucrative and stable contract, was that person more productive and more creative? Or did the opposite occur? WE SHOULD ALL STAND ON OUR OWN TWO FEET FOR OUR OWN GOOD.

  12. NPR/PBS are an upscale version of the infamous ACORN.. They are plugged into Fed money at every level…Cut off the Direct funding & the preferred Tax Status and they are done (toasted)
    The same thing with the CBC, the status of them been a Gov’t entity opens doors…lose the status and the doors close…

  13. If people think it is a service worth having, then they’ll pay for it. Simple. No government funding required.
    When I lived in Vancouver, in the 1980’s there were some good shows on PBS and they were broadcast without commercials. I liked the Red Dwarf series so much I ended up buying all of the program DVD’s. While I was watching the station I did contribute to their annual pledge drive. Once their programming wasn’t something I was interested in, I stopped sending them money.
    I don’t watch broadcast TV any more but would be willing to pay for a service where I got the show I wanted without commercials. Such a service doesn’t exist in Canada now so I occasionally download video’s using bittorrent. Given the value of my time it’s cheaper for me to just buy the DVD, but I’ve gotten so infuriated with some DVD’s that have crap I’m not interested in watching every time they start up that I have to rip them with DeCSS and edit out the unwanted crap to render them in a format I want to watch. One great advantage of VHS tapes as every tape I bought has a note with time to fast-forward to so one can immediately start watching the movie.
    CBC is absolute crap and I am very pissed off at being forced to fund it. Where I live doesn’t even have an English broadcast CBC station so I can’t watch hockey games. If people want CBC, they can pay for it. If no-one is willing to put out money to support it, then it deserves to vanish.
    I’m glad to see that there are artists like Robert who are against use of public funds for “art”. Having had friends who were musicians, I’m well aware of the financial problems they faced and I usually end up buying CD’s of bands I like when I’ve downloaded their material off Limewire. I also buy CD’s off the internet from bands who make their music available for download.

  14. ….serve the needs of more than 38 million Americans with free over-the-air programming they can’t find anywhere else…
    I spot at least two lies here.

  15. So, if I understand this correctly, NPR is the radio equivalent of PBS TV. If they lose government money (hand outs) then NPR cannot live with a 10% cut in revenues? Can NPR not go and get more sponsors like PBS does with their pledge drives and corporate funding grants?
    Another thing I find confusing is how can CBC Radio manage to operate without commercials, in areas that commercial radio would not find it viable but CBC TV begs for more money even when they show at least as much commercials as private TV. I realize that satelitte radio may make the need for coast to coast to coast radio redundant, it is so far a pay system controlled by the same band of bandits that co-mingle with the CRTC.

  16. If a person cannot make a living at something without Government help, then you either have no talent, no initiative or no ambition.
    I think it’s important to consider whether there is a market for what that person is selling too.
    For instance, if a particular radio station can’t get local commercial backing because their broadcasting isn’t what people want to listen to then those people who don’t want to hear that message shouldn’t have to pay for it with their taxes.

  17. Speaking of Obozonomics . . .
    Dear Abby,
    My husband has a long record of money problems. He runs up huge credit-card bills and at the end of the month, if I try to pay them off, he shouts at me, saying I am stealing his money. He says pay the minimum and let our kids worry about the rest, but already we can hardly keep up with the interest. Also he has been so arrogant and abusive toward our neighbors that most of them no longer speak to us. The few that do are an odd bunch, to whom he has been giving a lot of expensive gifts, running up our bills even more. Also, he has gotten religious. One week he hangs out with Catholics and the next with people who say the Pope is the Anti-Christ, and the next he’s with Muslims. Finally, the last straw. He’s demanding that before anyone can be in the same room with him, they must sign a loyalty oath. It’s just so horribly creepy! Can you help?
    Signed, Lost in DC
    Dear Lost:
    Stop whining, Michelle. You can divorce the jerk any time you want. The rest of us are stuck with him for two more years!

  18. Socialists don’t like to get their hands dirty with sponsors. Public money is nice, its pure and clean like the wind driven snow, untainted by the uuuuugly Profit Motive.
    Getting the station funded purely by advertising money, why, that would be [shudder] CAPITALISM!!! Its unthinkable!
    Personally, I think NPR should go Open Source, and all the announcers and producers should donate their work like good Communists. Richard Stallman would be happy, that’s for sure.
    Buck up boys and girls. Its for The Cause, you know.

  20. Perhaps if they rebranded as LWTFBVC and called in Soros and Tides? Oh wait.
    (LWTFBVC = Left Wing Trust Fund Babies Volunteer Collective)

  21. nearly 900 public radio stations that serve the needs of more than 38 million Americans with free over-the-air programming

    There are radio stations you have to pay to hear? Pay Per Listen?

  22. Andy, Sirius/XM. I gladly pay the monthly to hear 80’s on 8, Area and BPM uninterrupted by ever-increasingly obscene commercials and Left wing propaganda, aka network news.

  24. PBS: Polar Bear Saviours.
    Wouldn’t be the same without all those National Catastrophic documentaries.

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