--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, unless they deliberately lie it's 2%. > > "The only direct government funding NPR receives is > through competitive > grants from government agencies for specific > projects. Such grants are > awarded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, > the National Science > Foundation, and the National Endowments for the Arts > and the Humanities, > and typically represent only 2% of total revenues." > > at > > > http://www.npr.org/about/place/corpsupport/financials.html > > > Dan M.
Note that it could be 50 cents, and I would still think it's unconscionable, but I _believe_ that this is a fudge on their part. Not a lie, per se, but I think that some fairly substantial fractions of the pie are "indirect" federal funding - money from local affiliates that are subsidized, etc. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
