Public money, private luxury: NPR, from its progressive palace, cries poverty

[mystery-ak]

July 18, 2025
Public money, private luxury: NPR, from its progressive palace, cries poverty
By M. Walter

Does your work have a sushi bar with a sushi chef in a chef hat?  As part of a full-service, fully-staffed cafeteria able to seat 200 people at a time in plush furniture and plush, designer surroundings?  How about a fully-staffed fitness center?  I bet your work doesn’t have its own private power plant.  You read that right: not a mere back-up generator, but an honest-to-God back-up power plant.  Got that? Got honey-bee hives?

I’m guessing “no.”

If you have a friend or acquaintance who’s outraged — outraged! — that the Republicans clawed back a billion bucks from NPR/PBS, invite them to consider the following:

According to The Washington Post:

    The [NPR] endowment had a balance of $368.2 million at the end of its fiscal year in September 2021, the most recent in which data is available.

But that’s just the endowment.  Money they (theoretically) don’t spend.  Let’s have a little look at how they do spend their precious dollars from viewers like you.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/npr_from_its_progressive_palace_cries_poverty.html

[mountaineer]

We should revisit the salaries paid not only to the mucketymucks at NPR and PBS headquarters, but even to station managers. Your tax dollars not so much at work as funding champagne and caviar.

[DefiantMassRINO]

NGO recipients of Federal funds need to be audited by the GAO.

sushi = bait

[Bigun]

NGO recipients of Federal funds need to be audited by the GAO.

sushi = bait

There is no such thing as a NGO funded by government in my book.