NPR is a Priority for the President
By bobmnu
@bobmnu (8157)
United States
March 10, 2011 3:48pm CST
NPR officals have said that they receive a small portion of their funding from the government. If this is the case then they could get the small portion of that funding from other sources and let the tax payers stop helping them. President Obama, said through his spokesperson, that funding NPR is a Priority and even proposed increasing the budget.
I guess providing entertainment to his base is important to him.
2 responses
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
15 Mar 11
As I understand it, it's the local stations that mostly need the government help. Believe it or not, there are some people in rural areas that don't get cable, even in this day and age. The amount of government funding they receive is such a small amount it wouldn't even be a fraction of a drop in the bucket to cut it. The GOP wants to cut funding, as they always have, for purely political reasons despite the fact their actual news reporting is totally objective.
Annie
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
18 Mar 11
Why should the Government be funding a radio station? Many of the people I know in Rural America do not want cable or can get satalite TV. In difficult financial times I have to make choices as to what to cut. This is one area where the government has no business being in and should end the financing in a poor business.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
11 Mar 11
I agree... if they get the major portion of their funding elsewhere, why not all of it?
Obama's priorities are... I won't say what I think they are, but let's cut Medicare and put money into TV programming? With all the budget cuts he proposes, shouldn't increasing the funding of "public" TV make some people at least wonder?
