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In reply to the discussion: Chomsky: How America's Great University System Is Getting Destroyed [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)dollars for renting their sports mascots to a right wing radio station, the radio station puts the mascot on it's megaphone to increase it's community cred and significantly improve its appeal to advertisers, and then the station spends 24/7 bashing public education, teachers, their unions, 'intellectualism', science, liberal potential chancellors, help elect regents and representatives that want to defund and privatize education and raise tuition, and stop legislation that would increase funding.
here's a list of 70+ major university football programs that broadcast on 170 limbaugh (28% of his) stations https://sites.google.com/site/universitiesforrushlimbaugh/
the total rw stations that piggyback our state funded colleges, including for basketball and stations that don't headline limbaugh, is probably close to 40%.
they're all pissing on their mission statements.