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The vote today was 228-192 in favor of permanently defunding National Public Radio. The public broadcaster gets about 2% of its revenue via grants from federal agencies in places like the Department of Education, but NPR says it gets 40% from member station fees, which would go away if the bill becomes law. The vote was mostly along party lines, though seven Republicans voted against the measure. It’s unlikely it will get much traction in the Democrat-controlled Senate when it moves there for consideration; the White House already has said it opposes the measure.
The bill picked up steam as Republicans pounced on a recent hidden-camera controversy at NPR that ended in the resignation of CEO Vivian Schiller.
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They’ll be more successful and have complete independence if it happens. Win-win.
Can’t help but feel a little sad about this news. NPR really is the most intelligent thing on radio. I am Canadian and listen to it when I can get it. Funny thing is up here the people on the right want to kill the CBC (although sometimes I do too).
It really is the anti-Fox News. And this ‘controversy’ over its being paid for by the gov’t has been going on soooo long.
More GOP Budget Gimmicks. No real budget cuts. But, sure to keep the clueless base happy.
So true…
I will miss Alec Baldwin’s Schweddy Balls but that’s just about it. It’s the new Air America! Can’t happen fast enough!
Does this surprise anyone? Everyone knows the Republicans want everyone to get their news from Fox.
The real controversy is that O’Keefe heavily-edited the NPR sting video, essentially creating a work of fiction.
If he caught them dead-to-rights, fine. But the fact that reputable news sites still cover this guy when all three of his “investigations” have turned out to be nothing more than propaganda is baffling.
NPR is fine. Their reporting is solid, and unbiased. If anything, they should take a note from Fox News and ignore this political distraction.
True, it was heavily edited, but the full video was posted at the same time, and watching both, the NPR exec still looked like an idiot.
NPR has a niche, a liber niche, and that’s good, we need to acknowledge it and celebrate it.
Distancing itself from government funding will be the best thing that ever happened to it.
The should not only kill Federal funding for NPR but PBS as well.
NPR could replace the funding by leasing off the HD radio channels each station has for commercial concerns.
PBS stations can do the same – each PBS station has 3 sub-channels – do we really need PBS KIDS,CREATE and WORLD? Each PBS keeps one sub-channel (Merge all 3 of PBS’ sub-channels into one as PBS-2) and lease the other two to commercial broadcasters to generate the revenue.
Yes God forbid should we solve our budget problems by say ending the Bush tax cuts and maybe just maybe taxing the oil companies for the drilling they do off of our very shores. No let’s end all public broadcasting instead. Why not just privatize the education system too and put an end to any and all requirements that minors go to school. It all just costs too much money. End it all. Government shomeverment. If it ain’t RandRon Pauled to death, it ain’t worth doing. Oh and let’s take all the money saved and give each and every one of us some AK-47′s while simultaneously funding the military ever more…just for fun
Herb Finn, you don’t seem to know much about public radio.
NPR does not own the radio stations its programming airs on. It is just a program distributor — it provides programming to stations. The stations — which are independent (many owned, for example, by universities) — then buy programming such as Morning Edition from NPR.
As for your idea of leasing subchannels, I would guess that such a practice wouldn’t be allowed under the stations’ licenses; public television and radio stations are licensed as non-commercial stations.
For god’s sake Slim, breathe slowly into a paper bag or something before you hyperventilate and faint dead away onto your keyboard.
Republican, conservative, yadda yadda. There is no reason tax dollars should support this programming. Network and cable news programs make it on advertising and there is no reason that NPR cannot do the same – supplemented with their fund drives. Nothing in the world is preventing anyone from donating money to NPR – just stop donating other peoples money to NPR without their consent.
So that means I can stop paying for G.W.Bush’s wars too??
The bombing of innocent people in Iraq was done without MY consent.
No one cares about YOUR consent.
We need Woodward + Bernstein on this – I’m steaming mad even tho I often find NPR news stories simplistic.
RRR
This is going to happen over and over as more and more programs are cut, or even defunded. Individuals don’t care about cutting programs that have nothing to do with them, but if it’s something they want….The gravy train is over folks, and the cuts are just beginning.
You know what the irony is?
If we had listened to some of the people on PBS and NPR, we would have saved ourselves the $500B we spent invading Iraq looking for
the
Loch Ness Monster and the Easter BunnyWMD.Why does NPR and PBS need public funding in the first place? Just ask yourselves whether you would have the same opinion if NPR and PBS featured nothing but right-wing commentators and opinion. And please don’t insult my intelligence by telling me they are not left-wing institutions. I support defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting because I believe it is outside the role of government to give them funding. I don’t care what their point-of-view may be, I just believe their listeners and viewers should support the programming via viewership, fundraising and advertising. If they can’t survive they should be allowed to fail.
These miniscule cuts are not fooling anyone. Those of us who are right-of-center are watching our elected representatives closely. If they don’t fight for much deeper cuts in spending they will face primary challenges in the coming elections regardless of party affiliation. Despite what Michael Moore believes, the government is indeed broke and we need to apply the breaks. Otherwise we are all going to suffer the end of American prosperity in our lifetime.
But there’s $35 billion available for Boeing to build a refueler plane we don’t need. ‘Cuz that’s the price of freedom. -W