Why NPR Hates Network Neutrality: 21st Century Payola?

This morning I awoke to a www.BroadbandforAmerica.com sponsorship of National Public Radio. Broadband for America is an industry-funded front group -- its general goal is to create confusion about what consumer and public interest groups support when it comes to telecommunications reform. Later this morning I got an e-mail from a good friend:

> Ugh, this is the top story in my iGoogle NPR feed.
>
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113297709&f=1057&sc=igg2

This pro-incumbent, anti-consumer, anti-network neutrality rant is written by none other than Scott Cleland who gets his funding directly from AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, Qwest, and others.

The question I have for NPR is how is it that they get a bunch of funding from an industry fronted astroturf group and then (on the same day) decide to run an anti network neutrality rant on the same day? I thought payola was illegal.