Comments on: Not-so-public radio: MPR refuses to sell MnIndy ads

By: hartman_john

hartman_john — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:52:45 +0000

There's little “Public” about MPR. It is a cash-rich organization whose main focus is fundraising. Minnesotans should demand that MPR spend down its outlandishly large endowment before asking for one more dime from the dupes who fall for their ponzi scheme.

By: hartman_john

hartman_john — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:25:35 +0000

Minnesota Public Radio – a joke on your FM dial. These guys are snoozing, phoning in their stories and collecting from the duped citizens who think “Minnesota Nice” mens you ought to cough up the dough everytime Bill Kling asks you to. Wake up!

By: nospamformo

nospamformo — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:50:31 +0000

You ought to consult your business reporter to review the differences between "not for profit" and "not for revenue". Every dime MPR generates goes back into their left-wing causes. Every page view that goes to Indy means a few cents our of their pocket, which injures their agenda.

Get over it already, and welcome to the real world.

By: icafreak

icafreak — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:49:42 +0000

Wow, way to be whiny.

Question: do you write 'stories' like this for every website that doesn't want to sell you ad space? Or just the ones you think you're somehow entitled to be advertised on?

By: hartman_john

hartman_john — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:24:48 +0000

The Minnesota Independent “I-Team” ought to do an in-depth study of the HUGE endowment Minnesota Public Radio has amassed. Have you ever noticed during their never-ending fund drives that they always talk about “reaching their goal,” but they never actually tell the lsitener what the goal is. There's a reason. They don't want the listener to know that they are sitting on a pile of cash so thick that they'll never run out – even if everyone in S. Minneapolis and Duluth stopped giving today.

Go ahead…ask Bill Kling to show you the MN Public Radio books and you'll discover an “endowment” that is embarrassingly massive.

By: tjswift

tjswift — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:00:42 +0000

I don't really see it a matter of protecting market share.

It more probable that given the background of this "news gathering" website, in particular, MPR rightly feels that advertisement banners from Minnesota "Independant" would give yet more credence to the widely held opinion that public radio (and television) are nothing more than left wing functionaries operating on the public's dime.

Can't the Sorosphere be self more supporting by now? Cross pollenation between MoveOn, MediaMatters, Open Society, CAP and its various "independant" propaganda clearinghouses seems a natural path.

Oh, but openly cooperating is probably against the rules, right?

By: nihilix

nihilix — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:37:08 +0000

Those further to the left have been aware of the dark side MPR for a while. It (and NPR) were pro-Iraq war, pushing far more warmongering voices than peace voices. The best that can be said for it is that it's better than any corporate radio – but it could be so much more.

Not advertising competitors? Well, they make their bread and butter on a public resource – the radio dial – and they're supposed to be non-profit themselves? But they won't TAKE MONEY to allow MinnPost and MinnIndy their day in the sun? Cheap. Not good stewards of the public's interests.

By: justinph

justinph — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:56:25 +0000

Reminds me of the time my Prairie Ho Companions and I were hanging out watching Current TV planning a Low Power FM radio station and talking about all the great reasons to never give MPR a dime.

By: queen_shadov

queen_shadov — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:23:04 +0000

I'm not fan of Kling, but I can kinda see their point. NBC isn't going to advertise ABC shows on their site. And you may only have a modest following now, but MPR may put you over the top. Not likely, but the whole point of advertising is to get like-minded people to come to your site, right?

By: ericam

ericam — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:34:12 +0000

But they can have that ridiculous Amazon.com referral box?

I generally lurve MPR, but that's crap.