However if the broadcast companies are having financial troubles and they do not adjust these sorts of salaries to bring them in line with their weakening budgets, then they have no right to whine about the expense of business.

(NPR's correct role is that of C-SPAN, broadcasting government processes, not lefty playpen stuff.)

. I know if public funding was cut from it I would donate to it, but I refuse to now since its already getting tax dollars.

And I refuse to give them money cause they are such corporate whores…

Honestly, I don’t know why Americans lay down and take this oppression against their Constitutional right to Free Speech. Well you can say that the general “for profit” media didn’t bother to speak up either. Gee, I wonder what their lack of incentive was?

NPR receives a relatively small portion of its budget from government funding. When it does, it's in the form of competitive grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a federal fund. In total government funding comes to less than 20. I'm sure CBS and/or its parent company Westinghouse receive a fair amount of government dollars as well.

And is that more or less than Couric gets in taxpayer paid public funding for her salary?

On a side note I would be interested to see if Price Waterhous and/or CBS got public funding, you have any data on this? I'm not saying your wrong, just that I have never seen this claim before, and would be interested as to your source for this assertion.

I know its difficult for a Social Darwinist to understand, but start by putting yourself in a poor child’s shoes.

Or his son's lack of shoes due to the exploding deficit.

NPR receives a relatively small portion of its budget from government funding.

I gave your remark a 'thumbs up' but I hope you're aware that the nutters here (even though they know what you're saying is true) still need to play the 'game'.

IMO, your time would be better spent ignoring their 'fool'ishness and saving keystrokes.

http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html

Top Censored Stories of 2009/2010

1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street

2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s

3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates

4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina

5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products

6. Lobbyists Buy Congress

7. Obama’s Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past

8. Bailed out Banks and America’s Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions

9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza

10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate

11. Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine

12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell—Karl Rove’s Election Thief

13. Katrina’s Hidden Race War

14. Congress Invested in Defense Contracts

15. World Bank’s Carbon Trade Fiasco

16. US Repression of Haiti Continues

17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan

18. Ecuador’s Constitutional Rights of Nature

19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor

20. Secret Control of the Presidential Debates

21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare

22. Obama’s Trilateral Commission Team

23. Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud

24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion

25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon

The Worth of American poor children suffering without healthcare is a billion times more valuable than Curic's Popularity or contribution.

I know its difficult for a Social Darwinist to understand, but start by putting yourself in a poor child’s shoes.

We must tap this goldmine.

Immediately raise taxes three fold on TV advertising spots. No four fold…..

Increase NPR's budget by thrice and put the rest into a Healthcare public option.

Have Rupert Murdoch dragged into the street and caned with a rattan cane…sell tickets and pay-per-view time. Proceeds to Frontline.

I hope thats sarcasm and not more progressive wealth redistribution aka theft.

Ohh Couric is successful, she must be brought down!!!! How dare she make more than a taxpayer funded non profit!!!!

Couric’s Salary Is More Than The Annual Budgets of NPR’s Two Top News Shows

Yet, she recieves no public funding.

Immediately raise taxes three fold on TV advertising spots. No four fold…..

Increase NPR's budget by thrice and put the rest into a Healthcare public option.

Have Rupert Murdoch dragged into the street and caned with a rattan cane…sell tickets and pay-per-view time. Proceeds to Frontline.

Couric’s Salary Is More Than The Annual Budgets of NPR’s Two Top News Shows

And now you know why the media is so conservative…