Exactly why the establishment is fighting against Trump so fiercely. Their whole world is in danger of being turned “upside down,” and they stand to lose their cozy little arrangement that keeps the tax payer’s money flowing to their buddies.
100%FedUp:
You won’t believe the obscene salaries of PBS and NPR higher-ups. PBS pays their president a $632,233 yearly salary. Former Senator Jim DeMint speaks up in the WSJ about the obscene salaries the higher ups at PBS and NPR are getting:
WSJ
When presidents of government-funded broadcasting are making more than the president of the United States, it’s time to get the government out of public broadcasting.
While executives at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) are raking in massive salaries, the organizations are participating in an aggressive lobbying effort to prevent Congress from saving hundreds of millions of dollars each year by cutting their subsidies.
The so-called commercial free public airwaves have been filled with pleas for taxpayer cash. The Association of Public Television Stations has hired lobbyists to fight the cuts. Hundreds of taxpayer-supported TV, radio and Web outlets have partnered with an advocacy campaign to facilitate emails and phone calls to Capitol Hill for the purpose of telling members of Congress, “Public broadcasting funding is too important to eliminate!”
PBS President Paula Kerger even recorded a personal television appeal that told viewers exactly how to contact members of Congress in order to “let your representative know how you feel about the elimination of funding for public broadcasting.” But if PBS can pay Ms. Kerger $632,233 in annual compensation—as reported on the 990 tax forms all nonprofits are required to file—surely it can operate without tax dollars… More
If the federal government cuts off funding for public broadcasting, the programs not only wouldn’t disappear, they would have a better chance of surviving long into the future.
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They are having fund raisers nightly!!! Love it!!! Got rid of the spanish speaking channel VME. Guess the mexicans weren't supporting them! Sent the money out of country! Now it's MPT kids! The times I listened to NPR in the mornings, I had to turn it off. Way to liberal! Glad to see my tax money won't be funding them anymore. They will now have to complete in the free market. I do enjoy some of the programming like Nova, and Nature. I usually to my Roku box and stream this, so I don't really watch my local MPT channel anyway unless they have something interesting on, and it they do have anything worth watching, it will have several interruptions for pledge drives to beg for your money. They also remind you to include them in your will when you die!!!
I don't have cable or satellite TV and any TV watching is from over the air antenna, so I watch CBS, ABC,and not. I am not watching not as much now because they are in begging mode (pledge drive) on 28-1 &28-2. They never begged on BMW (the Spanish station) and don't beg on mpt kids or the Japanese station they added. They keep repeating shows that are at least 25 years old (Bob Ross painting, Roy Orbison music, etc) every time they beg, which is a real turn off to me. They also keep repeating the same shows over and over(almost all the actors from Are you being served have been dead 5 or more years) and expect people to donate to keep these old shows on the air. With all the begging, I would rather see commercials and then they could get new shows. The do have excellent programs from time to time - Downton Abbey, afterlife, a place to call home, Midsomer murders, etc) so I tolerate the begging. It's time for the country to make tough choices where the money goes and entertain is an easy cut with all the alternatives out there. Our family cut the cable cord to save money, the government can cut public broadcasting ( or if it's so important-the executives can take substantial pay cuts to keep it afloat.
Give me that job for $75,000.
Please, please, please cut their budget. Their programming is either propaganda or irrelevant.
Does anyone really think that if PBS DID go off the air none of the cable companies would pick up Sesame Street and the few other programs that are worth something??
I do like the concerts and railway shows but CUT the Presidents salary by 75%
Unbelievable! Thanks for getting
the FACTs out there!!!
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