I listen occasionally to NPR during the day. A couple of times recently I’ve heard the hosts giving a shout-out to their sponsors, and they’re thanking Portland Public Schools for their support. What is up with that?
I have no idea how to go about investigating how much money is being shuffled from PPS to NPR, but in my mind there shouldn’t be ANY money sent over. Do you have a way to find out about this?
Sure -- we just ask our readers.
Comments (11)
I've heard the PPS ads on OPB during All Things Considered. They cost about $8,000 a quarter.
They probably should, Mojo. I don't listen to NPR occasionally; I listen to it constantly and I have long wished they would switch to some more straightforward advertising announcements rather than the gilded "contributions from" often followed by embellishments clearly of the contributer's making.
I agree that if they are announcing contributions from Portland Public Schools, it should instead be clearly worded as voluntary association of employees of Portland Public Schools, etc.
The causative problem is the glass is half empty. Fill it up all the way, and then there is no need for securitydetective work watching who has got volume-displacement fingers in the half-full to make it look full-up.
That is to say have no 'friends' or 'sponsors' advertising and no 'pledges' drives for NPR / PBS (CPB) = Pay it all with federal tax revenue for public 'arts' by taking the money away from the PentupFearGone, ASAP (Arms Spending Alternatives Projects), cover PBS 100% and more and still get yourself a BIG tax rebate taking money away from wasted PentupFearGone spending.
Have a Post Office. Have rejuvenated infrastructure and housing. Have community clinics. Have jobs. Instead of breadwinners going in caskets. By redirecting the tax level already away from the Dept of Death PentupFearGone ... pay for everything else and still get money back.
Oh, excuse me, like war is improving your life?
As for public Schools money sponsoring Public Broadcasting, I have little objection to that and LARGE objection to public money (DoD) spent sponsoring and propping up private broadcasts programming, like when you hear a PSA ('public service announcement' which is tax-dollars-produced and tax-dollars-distributed as sponsorship) advertising 'National Guard' or 'Marines' and many other PSA 'public-paid announcements' paying the freight of LarsLarson or Limbaugh airtime.
Why does the Army need to advertise anyway? (n.b. the 2012 Budget appropriated $1billion to each of 'The Services' for advertising, uh, er, 'promotion.' That's right, each angle of the Pentagon sorcery gets a BillionBucko's to sponsor TVshows and like that there.) I mean, the Army has a monopoly. Anybody who needs advertising to tell them where to go to get to join the Army sounds unlikely to bring with them the mental competence to get in.
Having an all volunteer armed services sort of leads to outreach being necessary. Same is done for the Peace Corps, Americorps, and other agencies seeking volunteers.
Within certain age groups, one MUST attend elementary thru high school, or get home schooled.
Public schools are always complaining about insufficient funding, so it seems quite strange that they would spare a few nickels for public broadcasting.
In 2009 you published the salaries of the top 8 execs at OPB making six figures, Jack, and asked the question: "How many days of pledge drive is that?"
One of several reasons that, when one of the neverending pledge drives for this purported non-profit rolls around, I don't feel even the slightest temptation to throw money at them.
By the way, any plans to begin posting these salary lists again?
I think these government workers forget who they are and who they work for. Instead of administrators, they see themselves as executives. The PR budget isn't just to tell parents that the kiddies need shots before going to school, it is for "branding" and marketing the "business". As much as I'd like to see government agencies be more businesslike, in my mind, that means cutting expenses and turning out a great product, it differs from the real thing because the goal is not to make a profit or larger salary.
Nolo, something in your post struck me as unintentionally humorous. Yeah, if they really "branded" the kids from each school, it would be easier to keep track of them.
And one of my favorite odious MBA phrases also applies: "Maximizing the asset" (human beings who get in the way be damned).
Charamba, Douro 2008
Horse Heaven Hills, Cabernet 2010
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills Pinot Grigio 2011
Avignonesi, Montepulciano 2004
Lorelle, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2011
Villa Antinori, Toscana 2007
Mercedes Eguren, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Lorelle, Columbia Valley Cabernet 2011
Purple Moon, Merlot 2011
Purple Moon, Chardonnnay 2011
Abacela, Vintner's Blend No. 12
Opula Red Blend 2010
Liberte, Pinot Noir 2010
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Indian Wells Red Blend 2010
Woodbridge, Chardonnay 2011
King Estate, Pinot Noir 2011
Famille Perrin, Cotes du Rhone Villages 2010
Columbia Crest, Les Chevaux Red 2010
14 Hands, Hot to Trot White Blend
Familia Bianchi, Malbec 2009
Terrapin Cellars, Pinot Gris 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2009
Campo Viejo, Rioja, Termpranillo 2010
Ravenswood, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2010
Waterbrook, Reserve Merlot 2009
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills, Pinot Grigio 2011
Tarantas, Rose
Chateau Lajarre, Bordeaux 2009
La Vielle Ferme, Rose 2011
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio 2011
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir 2009
Lello, Douro Tinto 2009
Quinson Fils, Cotes de Provence Rose 2011
Anindor, Pinot Gris 2010
Buenas Ondas, Syrah Rose 2010
Les Fiefs d'Anglars, Malbec 2009
14 Hands, Pinot Gris 2011
Conundrum 2012
Condes de Albarei, Albariño 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2007
Penelope Sanchez, Garnacha Syrah 2010
Canoe Ridge, Merlot 2007
Atalaya do Mar, Godello 2010
Vega Montan, Mencia
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir, Marlborough 2009
Portuga, Rose 2011
Revelation, Chardonnay, Pays d'Oc 2010
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 2005
Monte Alto, Tinto Reserva 2005
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Cabernet, Indian Wells 2009
Espiral, Vinho Rose
Vin-Koru, Pinot Gris 2011
14 Hands, Hot to Trot Red 2009
Rodney Strong, Cabernet, Sonoma 2009
Abacela, Vintner's Blend #11
Portuga, White 2010
La Bourgeoisie, Red 2009
Januik, Red 2009
Three Rivers, River's Red 2008
Kirkland, Alexander Valley Merlot 2008
Muga, Rioja Rose 2010
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
The Occasional Book
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
Mark Bego - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul (2012 ed.)
Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Timothy Egan - The Big Burn
Deborah Eisenberg - Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
Kathryn Lance - Pandora's Genes
Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Road Work
Miles run year to date: 21
At this date last year: 52
Total run in 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269
Comments (11)
I've heard the PPS ads on OPB during All Things Considered. They cost about $8,000 a quarter.
Posted by Garage Wine | February 4, 2013 12:03 PM
Just sent them a public information request. Will see how long they twiddle their thumbs on this one..
Posted by teresa | February 4, 2013 1:02 PM
Looks like it consists of contributions from employees and is not matched.
http://www.opb.org/support/membership/workplace/
Posted by sally | February 4, 2013 1:27 PM
Then OPB should announce the sponsorship as coming from the employees, otherwise it's false & misleading.
Posted by Mojo | February 4, 2013 1:39 PM
They probably should, Mojo. I don't listen to NPR occasionally; I listen to it constantly and I have long wished they would switch to some more straightforward advertising announcements rather than the gilded "contributions from" often followed by embellishments clearly of the contributer's making.
I agree that if they are announcing contributions from Portland Public Schools, it should instead be clearly worded as voluntary association of employees of Portland Public Schools, etc.
Posted by sally | February 4, 2013 2:05 PM
The causative problem is the glass is half empty. Fill it up all the way, and then there is no need for securitydetective work watching who has got volume-displacement fingers in the half-full to make it look full-up.
That is to say have no 'friends' or 'sponsors' advertising and no 'pledges' drives for NPR / PBS (CPB) = Pay it all with federal tax revenue for public 'arts' by taking the money away from the PentupFearGone, ASAP (Arms Spending Alternatives Projects), cover PBS 100% and more and still get yourself a BIG tax rebate taking money away from wasted PentupFearGone spending.
Have a Post Office. Have rejuvenated infrastructure and housing. Have community clinics. Have jobs. Instead of breadwinners going in caskets. By redirecting the tax level already away from the Dept of Death PentupFearGone ... pay for everything else and still get money back.
Oh, excuse me, like war is improving your life?
As for public Schools money sponsoring Public Broadcasting, I have little objection to that and LARGE objection to public money (DoD) spent sponsoring and propping up private broadcasts programming, like when you hear a PSA ('public service announcement' which is tax-dollars-produced and tax-dollars-distributed as sponsorship) advertising 'National Guard' or 'Marines' and many other PSA 'public-paid announcements' paying the freight of LarsLarson or Limbaugh airtime.
Why does the Army need to advertise anyway? (n.b. the 2012 Budget appropriated $1billion to each of 'The Services' for advertising, uh, er, 'promotion.' That's right, each angle of the Pentagon sorcery gets a BillionBucko's to sponsor TVshows and like that there.) I mean, the Army has a monopoly. Anybody who needs advertising to tell them where to go to get to join the Army sounds unlikely to bring with them the mental competence to get in.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | February 4, 2013 3:59 PM
Tensky,
Having an all volunteer armed services sort of leads to outreach being necessary. Same is done for the Peace Corps, Americorps, and other agencies seeking volunteers.
Within certain age groups, one MUST attend elementary thru high school, or get home schooled.
Public schools are always complaining about insufficient funding, so it seems quite strange that they would spare a few nickels for public broadcasting.
Posted by Mike (one of the many) | February 4, 2013 4:10 PM
In 2009 you published the salaries of the top 8 execs at OPB making six figures, Jack, and asked the question: "How many days of pledge drive is that?"
One of several reasons that, when one of the neverending pledge drives for this purported non-profit rolls around, I don't feel even the slightest temptation to throw money at them.
By the way, any plans to begin posting these salary lists again?
Posted by NW Portlander | February 4, 2013 6:32 PM
can this blog assume that Pensky is a Neo-Pacifist?
Posted by jon | February 4, 2013 7:03 PM
I think these government workers forget who they are and who they work for. Instead of administrators, they see themselves as executives. The PR budget isn't just to tell parents that the kiddies need shots before going to school, it is for "branding" and marketing the "business". As much as I'd like to see government agencies be more businesslike, in my mind, that means cutting expenses and turning out a great product, it differs from the real thing because the goal is not to make a profit or larger salary.
Posted by Nolo | February 5, 2013 1:40 AM
Nolo, something in your post struck me as unintentionally humorous. Yeah, if they really "branded" the kids from each school, it would be easier to keep track of them.
And one of my favorite odious MBA phrases also applies: "Maximizing the asset" (human beings who get in the way be damned).
Posted by NW Portlander | February 5, 2013 7:29 PM