As noted by California Ray below, I have no tears to shed for NPR.

Those in charge had allowed themselves, and their network, during the Bush administration, to become only a shadow of their former selves.  NPR became less an outlet of honest journalism and reporting, and only more of another talking points outlet for the establishment - in this case, the right-wing “conservative” (“deceptive”) variety.  But whchever the variety of propaganda it allowed itself to promote, it was still a cog in the propaganda machine of those who would seek only to enrich themselves and their masters, and to completely undermine and destroy this nation.

Torture is but one glaring example.  By not calling torture “torture” and calling out those responsible for approving (as well as those responsible for directly committing) such atrocities, and instead choosing to use the Bush administration’s Orwellian euphemism of “enhanced interrogation techniques” as though it was completely normal, they ruined all credibility for themselves.

So it matters little if they disappear.  They won’t, of course.  The bill will die in the Senate.  But I will not be terribly upset should the network go silent.

They do not represent me.  Or you.  Or even someone as notable as Edward Murrow.  They merely report the way their masters tell them to, and are as obedient as only a good slave could be.

Robert Healy

The loss of not only NPR but PBS funding is a tragedy
for both young and old. The war against the middle
and lower classes is now in full swing.
Amerikkka, is fast becoming the bastion of the
corporate oligarchy, we are the victims of this war.
The oligarchs want a permanent underclass of
uninformed, illiterate and unthinking drones to work
in their soon to be reopened factories without
benefits and without the protection of OSHA, the EPA
and agencies which are intended to protect workers
from the hazards of working for ‘robber barons.’
We have no more time, time has run out on the
American worker. We can no longer count of government
due to the illogical votes of the middle class for
the Republican Party, which is wholly owned and
operated by the elitist oligarchs. Yes, the Democrats
are wholly owned and operated by the same people.
We the people, need to start and vote for a viable
third party, which will not be able to take money
from the corporate lobbyists and movers and shakers
of the elitist minority. How could the governing
members of the parties have strayed so far from the
ideals of the founding fathers? One phrase,
reelection campaign finances.
Too much money to raise to be reelected to ‘lifelong
seats’ in the House of Representatives and the
Senate. We are now in the thrall of the elitist
minority. We are no longer working for ourselves, if
we ever were, but working to support ourselves so
that we can be wage slaves in the corporate world.
Only those who live in the top %1/2 of our nation in
wealth, have anything to say regarding the plans for
the future. No one is immune to the wiles of the
oligarchs. We are all slaves.
Think not, watch the next few weeks, we will find out
the true masters of the future. We as a nation are
lost to the ideals set forth by the founding fathers.
The oligarchs have finally won. We will now become
the drones they always wanted, ill-informed,
uniformed, illiterate, unthinking, uncaring sufferers
of ID10T disease.

Just another step in the on-going privatization of ALL government services. It’s why they are more expensive, and continue to suck. 

While few will cry at the funeral of NPR, one cannot help but notice it’s just another battle lost by Barry and the dimmos because of their lack of vision.

NPR lost that House vote, but I’m not crying. Not after NPR tried to convince its
listeners that torture was funnier than a barrel of monkeys. Don’t believe me?
Then listen:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1290449