From: RobertB 

In article
,
 "John Beamish"  wrote:

> They sponsor at lot of NPR and PBS stuff.  I keep asking myself:  the sort
> of people who know what ADM does wouldn't ever (or hardly ever) get/use
> anything from ADM so why does ADM fund NPR/PBS?
>
> On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:13:01 -0500, Geo  wrote:
>
> > "Mark"  wrote in message
> > news:4578f76b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >
> >> still want to catch the Sunday morning TV pundits on the beach -- I
> >> think
> >> though, that I'll likely pass that up and just do the AM/FM thing
> >> instead
> >
> > No big loss, the sunday morning tv pundits are just paid ADM spokesmen
> > anyway.
> >
> > Geo. (ADM=Archer Daniels Midland, they own the building where most of
> > those
> > pundits have condos..)
> >
> >

You sure about the funding part? PBS I can sort of understand, but NPR?

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