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monmouth

(21,078 posts)
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 01:50 PM Jul 2012

While on NPR, Sen. Rubio Questions Usefulness of NPR

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., expressed worry this morning about broadcasting outlets that use taxpayer money to stay on the air.

But Rubio made his comments on NPR, a broadcasting outlet that uses taxpayer money to stay on the air.

"I do have concerns about spending money on public broadcasting," Rubio told Diane Rehm during an hourlong Q&A on NPR.

NPR has been a source of criticism from congressional Republicans who view it as a liberal refuge that espouses its views courtesy of public funding. Although only 2 percent of NPR's funding comes from government grants, the loss of federal funding would undermine the ability of NPR stations to pay for NPR programming, NPR says.

More idiocy from this nimrod at: http://news.yahoo.com/while-npr-sen-rubio-questions-usefulness-npr-154934066--abc-news-politics.html

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We Progressives And Moderates Have Concerns About Radio Marti Vogon_Glory Jul 2012 #1

Vogon_Glory

(9,086 posts)
1. We Progressives And Moderates Have Concerns About Radio Marti
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 01:55 PM
Jul 2012

We progressives and moderates have concerns about US taxpayer-subsidized Radio Marti. Radio Marti was conceived as a news outlet providing truthful and accurate news reporting to those folks living under the current Havana regime. It has since been turned into a blatantly right-wing propaganda organ whose truthfulness and veracity has come into question not among us so-called (From Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal on leftwards) "lefties" here on the mainland, but among its target audience.

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