Public Radio funded by Planned Parenthood?

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If I just heard correctly, my local NPR station, WGTE out of Toledo, proudly accepts funding from Planned Parenthood.
I was sort of amazed to hear this.

Anyone more familiar with this relationship between public stations and PP?
 
NPR, both as a national organization and as individual stations, accepts donations (for which they give public acknowledgement) from a number of individuals and organizations. It is not surprising at all that PP would donate to that station, especially if they have any kind of presence in that part of Ohio.

Full disclosure: I don’t listen to NPR, because the station doesn’t come in well at all, and I have never contributed to NPR.
 
I don’t know about PP in particular, and I don’t listen to NPR, but I will note that at least when it comes to “public television” these days, there isn’t much of a difference between public and commercial TV. Public TV may not have commercials interrupting the shows, but most of the popular shows have corporate sponsors, and the sponsors aren’t just named and thanked, but actually allowed to insert slick TV spots touting their brand, that are a little more subdued compared to commercials run on network/cable TV, but not by much.
 
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I don’t know about PP in particular, and I don’t listen to NPR, but I will note that at least when it comes to “public television” these days, there isn’t much of a difference between public and commercial TV. Public TV may not have commercials interrupting the shows, but most of the popular shows have corporate sponsors, and the sponsors aren’t just named and thanked, but actually allowed to insert slick TV spots touting their brand, that are a little more subdued compared to commercials run on network/cable TV, but not by much.
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I think you’re overstating it.

It is possible it may differ from area to area, but I get two PBS TV stations and I would say there are probably about 2 minutes worth of commercials at the beginning of each PBS program.

That’s waaay better than the load of commercials between the bits of programming on almost every Cable Network out there.

It’s different now from a few decades ago when a PBS announcer would just mention the name of a corporate sponsor and a still of the corporation’s logo would be shown for about 5 seconds because PBS’s funding by the government has been cut.

Remember the time when paying for Cable Network TV = No commercials? :rolleyes:

In my opinion, PBS and NPR are solidly politically liberal institutions.
 
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