Comments on: Video: “Why Can’t We Walk Straight?”

By: Bob Abela

Bob Abela — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:02:44 +0000

Talk about a killjoy…lighten up a little

By: David Brugge

David Brugge — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:01:43 +0000

I've enjoyed and been truly enlightened by Robert Krulwich for decades. The man is very gifted, however I've never heard him referred to as twee or cloying. Interesting. [I find his tone irritatingly self-satisfied, with a "hey, isn't is *special* and *neat* to be me?" vibe. That's hardly unique among NPR personalities, and I say that as a die-hard NPR listener/donor. --J.]

By: D Brigleb

D Brigleb — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:19:05 +0000

Take a breath, dude.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:56:33 +0000

NPR receives no public funding from the government. It does receive payments from local stations, some of which are funded by grants they’ve applied for from the government. In 2008, for instance, only 5.8% of local station revenue came from the government and 34% of NPR’s funding came from local station fees, so we’re talking about something like 2% government funding at max for this.

On top of all that, popular content such as this results in more awareness and therefore pledges for NPR (I’ve seen this several times over the last week), and so the overall production of this probably results in even less of your tax dollars going to this show.

I’m not really an opponent of some government funding for the arts, but Peter’s claim sticks in my craw a bit.

By: Lou Adzima

Lou Adzima — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:26:08 +0000

Federal Funds amount to 2% of NPR funds.

By: Peter Duke

Peter Duke — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:35:03 +0000

Yea great. We have trillion dollar deficits and our tax dollars are being spent on cartoons about what we don’t know. FAIL