… maybe he should clean up NPR. Can you believe those salaries? [Well, they're certainly not marxists.-ed. I know what you mean. "To each according to his need"???]
After Wolfowitz finishes with the World Bank…
March 17, 2005 - 6:23 am
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Roger, you’ve heard of limousine liberals? These are Mastercard Marxists…
Actually, I’m sure they can afford to pay those salaries because the dirty little fact of NPR is that it’s a cash cow. “Brought to you by [insert: Walmart Microsoft Merck Eli Lilly etc]” = advertising. These aren’t “donations”, these are ads, pure and simple, and I’d bet their rate card is as steep as any in talk radio.
Also, if I’m not mistaken they take in hefty fees from local affiliates that have to pay for NPR. Combine these fat revenue streams with very little spent on marketing and the skeletal cost structure that accompanies what is essentially a talk radio format (with a few national and foreign correspondents thrown in) and you’ve got a cash cow.
Nice work if you can get it. And all thanks to the taxpayer.
Hey, guys, go easy on those who work for a living, please? I’ve got a dear friend who works at NPR (nope, not gonna name this friend) and is an aspiring writer. Gotta pay the bill, ya know?
I wonder if the television version is similar. It took me a while to catch on, but the local stations don’t do their own begging anymore, they import a national version that is cleverly disguised to appear as local.
I don’t know how they split the revenue, but clearly it’s hugely profitable for NPR to have affiliates in Boston or San Fran, for ex., doing the heavy lifting so that the parent can then slap the NPR logo on the product and distribute ie sell it across, what, 30+ affiliates nationwide? All without incurring significant marketing expense or having to capitalize the cost of maintaining regional facilities. Or for that matter, having to pay the ridiculous seven-figure salaries that idiot presenters on the commercial networks receive.
Someone (Congress, for starters) needs to look closely into NPR’s financial statements to understand why the public is subsidizing a very profitable operation that sells advertising described as “support for NPR”.
Richard, LOL, MC Marxism. “America-next press”? (American Express…I know, clunk…needs work)
Roger’s secondary link (“need“) is a great two-minute compression of Marxism. Here’s the only better one I’ve seen, Marx himself demonstrating that he believes it’s brother versus brother over the means of production.