By Don Irvine ——Bio and Archives--March 28, 2011
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As a whole, NPR — as is common for a nonprofit — usually runs a deficit. According to audited financial statements, NPR's revenue ran a $8.3 million deficit in the 2010 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30. Revenues rose to $184.3 million from $148.7 million a year earlier, while expenses jumped to $192.5 last year from $166.6 million in 2009. But after cutting staff and scaling back benefits in 2008, NPR expects to make a "modest margin" this year, according to spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm.This would normally be good news, except that NPR is locked in a battle over future government funding, running a surplus shows good fiscal management but may also lend credence to the idea that they don't need more taxpayer money. One thing that may add even more to the ire of conservatives is the revelation of salaries being paid to the on air talent at NPR. According to the 2008 IRS 990 reports obtained by Daily Finance, NPR hosts aren't exactly suffering financially.
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Don Irvine is the chairman of Accuracy in Media and its sister organization Accuracy in Academia. As the son of Reed Irvine, who launched AIM in 1969, he developed an understanding of media bias at an early age, and has been actively involved with AIM for over 30 years.