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<span style="font-family:'Courier New',monospace; font-size:12pt">The fourth one listed is 'Failing to understand what makes donors</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">give'. Who's your biggest donor, Ms. Courtney? Hint. It </span><font face="Courier New, monospace">rhymes </font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">with SEE - PEE - BEE. That's what it is. The CPB. Do you know what</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">that stands for, Ms. Courtney? It's the Corporation for Public</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Broadcasting. Your biggest donor.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Why does the CPB give? It's called C-O-M-P-L-I-A-N-C-E, Ms. </font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Courtney. With FCC regulations. Have you heard of them?</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Here's how it works. The CPB gets its funding from Congress.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">All of it. So that's PUBLIC money, Ms. Courtney. And it </font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">comes with strings. Like not lying about audited financial</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">statements. By saying they exist when they don't. Look at</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">your Form 990s, Ms. Courtney. They don't exist.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Donors don't like being embarrassed. Especially by grantees.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Who insist -- in public editorials -- that their Form 990s</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">are okay. When they ADMIT that audited financial statements</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">don't exist. Under penalty of perjury. But only AFTER saying</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">they existed. To get $1 million plus in grant money. From </font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">the CPB.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Donors don't like being swindled either. By grantees who</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">insist -- in grant applications -- that grant money will be</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">restricted. When it actually all goes into the 'general pot'.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">According to KZYX's treasurer. On video:</font></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">Sweet. Maybe you think your donors are all Deadheads. Who </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">listen to </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">Mary Prankster's show. Fine. Then look at what those</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">so-called donors have done for</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;"> your station. As opposed to the</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">CPB. The donors who seem to prefer NPR. And S-U-R-V-I-V-A-L. </span></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Think of it this way, Ms. Courtney. Congress is controlled by </font><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="3"></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">T-H-E -- R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N -- P-A-R-T-Y. They don't like the </font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Grateful </font><font face="Courier New, monospace" style="font-size: 12pt;">Dead. </font><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">They like Enya. And </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">S-U-R-V-I-V-A-L. </span></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="3">If you don't </font><font face="Courier New, monospace">believe</font><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="3"> me, look at your Form 990s, Ms. Courtney.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="3">Mary Prankster hasn't done S-H-I-T for you bottom line. Same</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="3">for the Grateful Dead. What makes donors give is something </font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="3">you can't understand. It's called C-O-M-M-U-N-I-T-Y. And</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="3">another thing. Called T-R-A-N-S-P-A-R-E-N-C-Y. Until you</font></p>
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