Comments on: Say No To NPR

By: Deckard

Deckard — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is the stupidest diatribe against NPR that I’ve ever heard. What a waste of gossip space – even for a blog.

Grow up.

By: j

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

yawn.

sounds entirely reliable!

By: sensi63

sensi63 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Delhi is a shithole and I would not live there for 500k a year. I hung out with very (Tata league) wealthy people there, and found the standard of living to be much lower that upper middle class americans, servants and drivers aside.

By: c

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

it is not npr asking for money, it is member stations, who have to pay npr, mpr, and pri to air all the varied public radio programs.

By: jdoe285

jdoe285 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Have you ever been to Delhi? sensi63 is right, it’s a TOTAL shithole. there is no way a decent journalist would take an assignment there w/o knowing that he’d get to live well. Servants and drivers sound great and all, but you have to put up with so much sh!t living there that it wouldn’t even be close to worth it.

By: Raja Hindustani

Raja Hindustani — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great points.

But then who really cares about NPR? Only the pseudo-intelligent and baby boomers (and the boomers are close to death anyway).

By: Stan

Stan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks, Om. I stopped giving to NPR a few years ago. What you’re hearing doesn’t surprise me. The reporting is painfully out of touch. Usually it’s navel-gazingly baby-boomer focused (from Bob Edwards fascination with sports stars of yore to whatever Linda Gradstein is gabbing endlessly and boringly about), but the foreign reporting also seems very insulated. Usually I just hear how out-of-touch NPR is from its middle-east reporting, but now that you point it out, their India coverage has been equally ill informed. Now I know why. Thanks — I think I’ll keep giving my money to real news organizations in the form of subscriptions.

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

These comments are spectacularly ill-informed. I have first hand knowledge of the salaries of NPR reporters. Most of them make an average amount of money. Some make a bit more- but they could make alot more if they went to work for a commercial network. These reporters are willing to accept a lower salary in order to work in an environment that supports excellence in journalism.

Why does anyone expect talented and experienced NPR (and PBS) employees to work for a pittance just because we receive partial funding from our listeners/viewers? Certainly, the American Public deserves to hear ans see the best available content. Well, the only way to get the best is to PAY FOR IT.

By: *

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think it’s unfair to target NPR. All correspondents live in these conditions. Otherwise, I agee: they live pretty well, making over 100K per year PLUS living subsidies. They hang out with the rich and powerful, often writing stories by quoting only official sources and/or re-hashing what is reported in the local dailies.

By: *

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oops, I am not rteferring to NPR correspondents salaries. I am tlakign about the correspondents for the major dailies.

However, i saw the way the NPR correspondent lived in Meciso City (Phillip Davis, when he lived in DF). He may not have made that much, but he lived in large house with a maid.

The Newsweek correspondent in DF was living in a sweet $3,000 a month crib, paid in full by Newswekk apart from his salary.

The NYT bureau is in a HUGE gothic mansion literally next door to the richest man in Latin America. Ginger THompson lives very well, and her stories and sources reflect that lifestyle.