CAMERA: Juan Williams and NPR's Taxpayer Funding - 'In the wake of National Public Radio's firing of Juan Williams, NPR chief Vivian Schiller has defended her network, in part, by claiming that NPR is a purely private organization that gets essentially "zero" taxpayer funding...Other National Public Radio staffers and officials have made similar assertions in the past, despite the fact that such claims are blatantly deceptive. In fact NPR does receive large amounts of taxpayer money, but via the equivalent of a shell game - for some years now instead of the taxpayer money going directly from the taxpayer-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to NPR, it has gone to the local affiliates as "community service grants," which the stations then turn around and send to NPR to help pay for the right to broadcast the network's programs...'