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Title: Those Soft-Voiced Anchors at NPR Make the Big Bucks
Post by: TheSarge on December 12, 2008, 05:00:58 PM
Josh Gerstein, a former reporter for ABC News and the New York Sun, blogged about how National Public Radio -- now laying off 64 employees and shutting down two programs -- has some perhaps surprising salary figures for a somewhat public media outlet:

NPR reported NPR reported its five highest paid employees were:
1. Managing Editor Barbara Rehm, $383,139
2. All Things Considered host Robert Siegel, $350,288
3. Morning Edition host Renee Montagne, $332,160
4. Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, $331,242
5. NPR afternoon programming director Richard L. Harris, $190,267.

The most eye-catching salary ever reported on an NPR tax form is probably the $505,132 paid to broadcaster Bob Edwards in FY2004, the year he was ousted as host of Morning Edition, quit, and went to XM Radio. He hosted his last NPR show in April, five months before the end of the fiscal year, so the half-million dollar salary (presumably including some kind of severance) seems to have been for just seven months work....

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/12/12/those-soft-voiced-anchors-npr-make-big-bucks

Title: Re: Those Soft-Voiced Anchors at NPR Make the Big Bucks
Post by: Eupher on December 12, 2008, 05:04:57 PM
Which is why I contribute nothing to that haven of libtards. And I listen to it only until the liberalism prompts the gag reflex.
Title: Re: Those Soft-Voiced Anchors at NPR Make the Big Bucks
Post by: Baruch Menachem on December 14, 2008, 01:49:37 PM
Which is why I contribute nothing to that haven of libtards. And I listen to it only until the liberalism prompts the gag reflex.
Which for me takes about 27 seconds, on average.