Public Television Executives Make Big Bucks

The Boston Herald reports:

More than a dozen WGBH honchos at PBS’ taxpayer-subsidized flagship station are raking in upwards of $200,000 a year while toiling in the lap of a luxurious $85 million multimedia palace dubbed the “Taj Mahal” that boasts a 200-seat amphitheater, state-of-the-art recording studio and Hamburg-Steinway grand piano.

The Herald’s review of the nonprofit producer behind such PBS stalwarts as “Frontline” and “Nova” comes on the heels of yesterday’s sudden ouster of National Public Radio’s boss following a viral video that showed another NPR executive calling Tea Party Republicans racist. The furor is fueling a new push to end taxpayer subsidies for public television and radio.

The freewheeling spending at WGBH — which produces one third of all PBS programming — has put the station in the crosshairs of congressional Republicans looking to cut off federal funding of Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which totaled $430 million this year.

They must be altruistic because they don't work for a for profit corporation. Got that!