NPR President Schiller Resigns Following Hidden-Camera Sting

I agree, now hopefully we can cut the funding to that far left tax funded station.

You DO realize,don't you, that it is not only NPR News that is threatened by funding cuts? It is PBS television too. You know, programs like Nova, Sesame Street, American Masters, etc. Here is a list of programs we all stand to lose:

http://www.pbs.org/programs/

And here are some of the programs we could lose from NPR: http://www.npr.org/programs/

No more Car Talk. No more Prairie Home Companion.

And don't think that just becasue Public Broadcasting can survive without federal funding we won't lose all of these great programs. Our LOCAL stations in many cases CANNOT survive.

Looks like I'll have to substantially increase my yearly pledge...

NOVA and Frontline are the only things I would salvage, and History channel or Discovery might step in to produce those two shows. This is a good time to get the government out of the entertainment business. Museums and parks should also be self-sufficient going forward.

Plus, such concessions are really not much of a sacrifice and it will help the RepubTEACons with their self esteem.

I actually somewhat agree with juan. It's a good time to get government out of the entertainment business. If any program or station can't stand on its on feet then it should be done away with. If there is enough interest then the programs will survive. I guess I'll have to cut my yearly pledge in half.

Schiller said NPR only get 10% of it's funding from the feds. Not much really.

As for local channels, since my kids are grown, I have not PBS in years.

Its time for pbs npr to join the free market and see if thay can exist. This type of programing was not available when they were established. now with our 100s of choices available on radio and cable there is no need for the government to fund this.

There are places in this country where the only other radio station that comes in plays "new country". You know, that insipid garbage that is basically just bad pop music with a slide guitar. There are other places where the only other choice is rock music. Then there are places, believe it or not, where NPR is the ONLY radio station that comes in.

As one who refuses to allow a TV in my house, I listen to radio a lot. And the only station I listen to is NPR. I love the classical music in the morning, the jazz in the evening, and on the weekends I enjoy Car Talk, Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me, This American Life, From the Top (America's best young classical musicians - some of them as young as 10!). I listen to Celtic music on The Thistle and Shamrock, Big Band Spotlight, Piano Jazz, and the list goes on and on.

I will without a doubt be donating as much as I possibly can during pledge drive next month. I will eat Ramen Noodles all month if I have to, just so I can keep my favorite shows on the air. And just think how many NPR tote bags I will receive!

OK cut anything and everything, just please salvage Cowboy Poetry, lol.

Just throw a Nike swoosh on Elmo and dress the count in Under Armour, the show will be better funded than ever and the taxpayer won;t have to chip in another cent. I'll be the first in line to get my kids some Air Big Bird shoes.