From: RobertB 

In article
,
 "John Beamish"  wrote:

> I'm pretty certain.  The NPR station I listen to (during the drive to/from
> the train station) has -- I'm quite certain -- mentioned it in the past.
> I'll listen carefully for the next little while.

You in Iowa?


>
> On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 16:27:33 -0500, RobertB
 wrote:
>
> > 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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