GOP moves to sensor NPR

[SuperTool]

Reminds me of when USSR collapsed, and all channels were playing Swan Lake.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/16/busin...6907200&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

 

[ElFenix]

maybe there will be something decent on the radio for a change

 

[nageov3t]

I think I'll stick with my local college radio station

 

[Kerouactivist]

Can anybody tell me how to say NPR with a late 1930's early 1940's german accent ..apparently thats the agenda

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: bthorny
Can anybody tell me how to say NPR with a late 1930's early 1940's german accent ..apparently thats the agenda

godwin was right

 

[jjzelinski]

AS much as it kills me to say this, I think it's fair to bring in a ombudsman. It is a public comodity, isn't it? Yes, the NEOCON's pretty much own AM, but not in a public sense. Oh well, can't have your cake and eat it too.

 

[Kerouactivist]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: bthorny
Can anybody tell me how to say NPR with a late 1930's early 1940's german accent ..apparently thats the agenda

godwin was right

.....nvrmind

 

[morkinva]

Unbelievable.. Yeah, sure the media has a liberal bias

This stuff is really gettin scary. This tune comes to mind.

The media is supposed to be the watchdog of government, now let us remove the remaining baby teeth. Christ. :brokenheart:

 

[Infohawk]

How much of the funding comes from the government?

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: jjzelinski
AS much as it kills me to say this, I think it's fair to bring in a ombudsman. It is a public comodity, isn't it? Yes, the NEOCON's pretty much own AM, but not in a public sense. Oh well, can't have your cake and eat it too.

they already had an ombudsman, didnt they?
when terry gross railed on bill oreilly for a while, their ombudsman came out and said "yeah, she was wrong to do that" and then, about a year later, terry gross was promoting a book and went on oreilly's show (they wanted to media-make-up) and terry gross and he joked about fox's lack of ombudsman.

 

[conjur]

PBS is also under attack. Tomlinson needs to get laid or at least find a new hobby.

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: morkinva
Unbelievable.. Yeah, sure the media has a liberal bias

This stuff is really gettin scary. This tune comes to mind.

The media is supposed to be the watchdog of government, now let us remove the remaining baby teeth. Christ. :brokenheart:

exactly, the average joe doesnt have time or interest to look at everything the government does so the medias job is to do that for the public and tell the public where the government goes wrong, that is why "free press" is so valued and basicly the foundation of democracy

 

[Mongals]

It is important to note that free press is vital, but a radio station that has been provided a charter by the government and given money from public funding, should not in essence be allowed to be one-sided.

 

[halik]

i love NPR news... thats the main reason i listen to it. To be replaced with FOX-PR i presume?

 

[Gigantopithecus]

NPR is the only radio station I listen to. The news is solid, I don't mind classical, and I really like jazz. It's also the only place I can hear the BBC news (you know, news about what's happening in the world outside of the US).
But the best thing about NPR: no crass commercials!!!

 

[SuperTool]

Originally posted by: Gigantopithecus
NPR is the only radio station I listen to. The news is solid, I don't mind classical, and I really like jazz. It's also the only place I can hear the BBC news (you know, news about what's happening in the world outside of the US).
But the best thing about NPR: no crass commercials!!!

You mean no penis enlargement, erection maintainance, loan shark, snake oil, and pyramid scheme ads that the "moral values" rightwing radio is running 24x7?

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Infohawk
How much of the funding comes from the government?

8%

yea.. damn those cartalk liberals!!
http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/online.html

some other good shows with streaming/archives
http://thislife.org/
http://www.onthemedia.org/
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13
http://www.itsyourworld.org
http://www.soundprint.org/

one tech nerds will enjoy http://thislife.org/ra/284.ram

 

[GroundedSailor]

Originally posted by: Gigantopithecus
NPR is the only radio station I listen to. The news is solid, I don't mind classical, and I really like jazz. It's also the only place I can hear the BBC news (you know, news about what's happening in the world outside of the US).
But the best thing about NPR: no crass commercials!!!

:beer:

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: Mongals
It is important to note that free press is vital, but a radio station that has been provided a charter by the government and given money from public funding, should not in essence be allowed to be one-sided.

FNC?

 

[Moonbeam]

Too bad public radio doesn't go full bore to bring these Fascists down instead of bending over backward to be objective as they're slaughtered. The handwriting of our destruction is plain and obvious on the wall. We need to go to war with the morons that have taken over the nation because they are hell bent on destroying us.

 

[halik]

my local npr... they have good indie shows at night

 

[Thump553]

Here is a link to a very excellent Bill Moyers speech which is mostly on issue:

http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-deta...democracy_now&collectionid=dn2005-0516

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Disturbing article, but not at all surprising.

The hallmark of the Bush admistration is IMO the degree to which he has sought to control public opinion by altering information flow.

 

[kage69]

The GOP is out gunning for one of the last bastions of true journalism, why doesn't this surprise me?

 

[GTaudiophile]

NPR = Fox News for Libs.

All government funding should be stripped!