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NPR plans buyouts

TheBigA said:
Keep in mind that no one pledges money to NPR.
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Being obtuse again? People pledge money to stations. Stations pay NPR. NPR seems to find ever-more creative ways to waste those pledge dollars. Sort of like you pay the IRS and the defense department buys thousand dollar toilet seats. Are you going to tell us no one gives tax money to the Pentagon?

NPR p___s away money on their fancy building and gourmet employee restaurant. On a redundant facility in California. On hiring and firing senior executives and sending them out with golden parachutes. And on a bloated staff. Unfortunately, true to form, NPR will fire the wrong people partly due to their own incompetence and partly due to their unions.
 
And yet you're the same person who feels the stations shouldn't have a say in how those dollars are spent. NPR didn't spend any money without the approval of the Board. And this new acting CEO was chairman of the finance committee. He made this bed, now he'll get a chance to lie in it.
 
TheBigA said:
And yet you're the same person who feels the stations shouldn't have a say in how those dollars are spent. NPR didn't spend any money without the approval of the Board. And this new acting CEO was chairman of the finance committee. He made this bed, now he'll get a chance to lie in it.
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Obviously, the stations (or A Reps) are meddling where they shouldn't and not showing appropriate oversight where they should.

NPR should function more like PBS. Not as a program producer or news organization but only as a distributor. NPR News should be spun-off into an an independent organization and NPR should cease participation in or any ownership or control of programs produced with and at "member stations."
 
FredLeonard said:
Obviously, the stations (or A Reps) are meddling where they shouldn't and not showing appropriate oversight where they should.
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What evidence do you have of "meddling?" How is it "obvious?"

FredLeonard said:
NPR should function more like PBS. Not as a program producer or news organization but only as a distributor.
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That would give even more power to the stations than they currently have. You think they deserve even more control over America's public radio network? Really?

The fact is that there have been financial shortfalls at the station-owned program syndicators, and I've spoken with people at producing stations who say they're also under the gun as far as raising money. This isn't strictly an NPR issue.

Also you obviously don't know this, but the NPR distribution system IS already separate from NPR corporate. Has been since 1983.
 
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Big A, if you ever agreed with anything or even did anything other than nit-pick, I can picture people fainting onto their keyboards across the country.

NPR still owns and manages the satellite system. It acts as a common carrier, not like a network or syndication company.
 
Big A, you asked for "evidence" before and I provided it. You dismissed it and later asked for evidence of the evidence. I am not wasting my time with you. It is clear you are just a shill for the industry establishment (although I doubt you really are a part of it). Keep drinking and spreading industry Kool-Aid.
 
FredLeonard said:
Big A, you asked for "evidence" before and I provided it.
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If I remember correctly, in another thread, you said the Juan Williams thing was an example of local station meddling. You made that up, just as you made up the idea that the current budget crisis is an example of station meddling. Yet it's clear the local stations and their representative have no reason to create a financial crisis at NPR. This crisis will cause their programs and services to be cut, and perhaps their programming fee to be increased. How does that help the member stations? I've pointed out to you that several other public broadcasting program suppliers have had similar financial problems. These suppliers don't have NPR's unions or bylaws. Clearly, the problem isn't NPR. But you refuse to accept that. What conclusion am I to draw from that?
 
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