A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Entry from August 29, 2015
National Pubic Radio (NPR or National Public Radio nickname)

NPR (formerly National Public Radio) is funded, in part, with taxpayer dollars. Conservative groups have often cited that NPR has a pro-liberal bias. Some critics have nicknamed NPR “National Pubic Radio” since at least 2002.
 
Other NPR nicknames include “National Propaganda Radio” (cited in print since at least 1989), “National Pinko Radio” (cited in print since at least 1990), “National Palestinian Radio” (cited in print since at least 1993), “Nationalized Public Radio” (cited in print since at least 1995) and “National Panhandler Radio” (cited in print since at least 2011).
   
 
Wikipedia: NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to 797 public radio stations in the United States of America. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. This act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, and established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which also created the Public Broadcasting Service in addition to NPR. A CPB organizing committee under John Witherspoon first created a Board of Directors chaired by Bernard Mayes. This Board then hired Donald Quayle to be the first President of NPR with studios in Washington D.C., 30 employees and 90 public radio stations as charter members.
       
SpaceBattles Debate Forum
Lokan
Nov 14th 2002, 6:25pm
Thus, for example, discussing the Democrats’ bloodbath on National Pubic Radio, Robert Kuttner said the Democrats had “blurred their differences with President Bush on key issues like whether to have a tax cut ... whether to have a social outlay that benefits ordinary people. They tried to blur their differences with the president on the war ...”
 
Google Books
American Wife: a novel
By Curtis Sittenfeld
New York, NY: Random House
2008
Pg. 265:
We drove in silence — the NPR show I’d been listening to had come on with the ignition, and I’d switched it off in case it wasn’t to her liking (Charlie referred to the station as National “Pubic” Radio) — and as we were approaching the corner of Montrose Lane and Whitting Avenue,...
     
Landover Baptist Church
HTannor
09-07-2009, 08:03 PM
Just the kind of story you’d expect the lieberals to air on National Pubic Radio.

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityRadio/Television • Saturday, August 29, 2015 • Permalink


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