Conservative columnist Brent Bozell informs us that NPR didn't really need the $200 million gift from Joan "Mommy Peacebucks" Kroc. The Media Research Center also scoffs at the idea that Kroc saw NPR as "objective."

Ken Stern, NPR's executive v.p., tells the New York Daily News much of the income from Joan Kroc's $200 million gift will fund programming. "We see moving from an era of limitations to an era of possibilities," he says.