Gold-Plated Public Radio: NPR's Commies Making Tasty Coin

NPR just laid off 64 people.

NPR reported its five highest paid employees were: 1. Managing Editor Barbara Rehm, $383,139 2. All Things Considered host Robert Siegel [pictured], $350,288 3. Morning Edition host Renee Montagne, $332,160 4. Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, $331,242 5. NPR afternoon programming director Richard L. Harris, $190,267.

The most eye-catching salary ever reported on an NPR tax form is probably the $505,132 paid to broadcaster Bob Edwards in FY2004, the year he was ousted as host of Morning Edition, quit, and went to XM Radio. He hosted his last NPR show in April, five months before the end of the fiscal year, so the half-million dollar salary (presumably including some kind of severance) seems to have been for just seven months work....

Management makes quite a bit more.

This is a government gig, no? Why are they making so much more than the President?

Something odd about this countercultural types living like Romanovs on the public's dime.

posted by Ace at 06:44 PM

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