Defund NPR campain

[Meister]

$1 is too much...

Pay for it yourself....

Exactly.

 

[daveman]

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Precisely why the right so fears PBS.

but then I suppose many love to be controlled by the corporate controlled media.

You're wrong. The government has no business disseminating news. That's the conservative opposition to NPR.

What happened to the Left in this nation? Used to none of you would accept anything from the government. Now, you implicitly trust the government with news, with healthcare, with managing your daily lives.

The government is not PBS/NPR. One reason the right hat it so is that it exposes incomvenient truths on the government right and left wing led. And big business cannot control it like they do the corporate media.
Perhaps the right just has more to hide in government than the left? I dunno on that.

All wrong.

Why do you think the government should be broadcasting propaganda?

 

[boedicca]

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Precisely why the right so fears PBS.

but then I suppose many love to be controlled by the corporate controlled media.

You're wrong. The government has no business disseminating news. That's the conservative opposition to NPR.

What happened to the Left in this nation? Used to none of you would accept anything from the government. Now, you implicitly trust the government with news, with healthcare, with managing your daily lives.

The government is not PBS/NPR. One reason the right hat it so is that it exposes incomvenient truths on the government right and left wing led. And big business cannot control it like they do the corporate media.
Perhaps the right just has more to hide in government than the left? I dunno on that.

The only Inconvenient Truth concerning NPR/PBS is that they provide services of such little value to the general public that they require government subsidies to exist.

They are the Corn Based Ethanol of the information age.

 

[daveman]

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Precisely why the right so fears PBS.

but then I suppose many love to be controlled by the corporate controlled media.

You're wrong. The government has no business disseminating news. That's the conservative opposition to NPR.

What happened to the Left in this nation? Used to none of you would accept anything from the government. Now, you implicitly trust the government with news, with healthcare, with managing your daily lives.

Well, if the gubmit can manage healthcare as good as it runs FEMA (Katrina) and the DOT (I-35 bridge in Mpls.), we have nothing to worry about.

Lovely. Government-run healthcare, brought to you by the same people who gave you the DMV.

 

[boedicca]

During the Bush administration was there ever a more pro govt network than Fox?

Sophistry.

Fox news is not funded by taxpayer dollars.

 

[daveman]

During the Bush administration was there ever a more pro govt network than Fox?

Deflection. We're discussing NPR, not Fox.

 

[Dr.House]

I DO think the gubmint should pay for more episodes of House M.D., though...









(jk)....

 

[BlindBoo]

Say, maybe you could get that fuckhead from Breitphart.com to help create some lying bullshit propaganda (you know some selectively cut video clips that makes it look like NPR worships the devil) that all the connies would buy into too?

Personally I think the FCC should revoke the Faux News license to broadcast.

Geeeze yeah, I think we should at least pull the public money from that ol' Faux News.

Yep auction off their public licenses to other media outlets. That'll teach um to be fairly-one-sided huh?

"I said it before, but I’ll say it again: NPR receives no direct funding from the federal government for operations. Here is a breakdown of NPR’s funding sources"

Fact Check: Palin Calls For Congress To ‘Defund’ NPR | Hubbub | Blogs | WBUR

 

[Wry Catcher]

Say, maybe you could get that fuckhead from Breitphart.com to help create some lying bullshit propaganda (you know some selectively cut video clips that makes it look like NPR worships the devil) that all the connies would buy into too?

Personally I think the FCC should revoke the Faux News license to broadcast.

Actually just make them remove news from the title as false advertising.

Why do the right fear PBS/NPR so much?

I gave them $1,000 recently.

Their actual news is far less sensationalized and biased with more comprehensive coverage than any netowrk news.
And the PBS Nightly news and nightly business report is mostly conservative slanted.

I don't think any one 'fears' PBS.... we just don't think we should fund shit when it is clearly promoting a political agenda. You want to pay for it, great. I don't want to. You should respect my right not to fund liberal media.

By asserting PBS and NPR are "promoting a political agenda" you're 1) ignorant of their programming, or 2) a liar putting out RW propaganda, or 3) ignorant and a liar.

It is obvious the usual echo chamber members who have posted on this thread have never watched PBS or listened to NPR and don't have a clue as to the depth and diversity of radio and TV programming. One may excuse the echo chamber of their collective ignorance, willfull and otherwise, for they simply repeat whatever their favorite talking head tells them.

 

[daveman]

current funding for NPR is about 6% of 164milliion annually per wikipedia for 2009.

We spend more than that on one off ramp on a road somewhere.

Then the left shouldn't have any trouble making up that 6% out of their own pockets.

I bet you could hit up Soros for it. He likes to fund leftist propaganda.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

NPR has mostly depended on public charity since the Reagan years. Totally pulling the plug might only make them better. It will not eliminate the channel, only make them a bit more responsible to their viewers.

The government has no business running a news organization. From my reading, funding NPR is already prohibited anyway.

 

[daveman]

Actually just make them remove news from the title as false advertising.

Why do the right fear PBS/NPR so much?

I gave them $1,000 recently.

Their actual news is far less sensationalized and biased with more comprehensive coverage than any netowrk news.
And the PBS Nightly news and nightly business report is mostly conservative slanted.

I don't think any one 'fears' PBS.... we just don't think we should fund shit when it is clearly promoting a political agenda. You want to pay for it, great. I don't want to. You should respect my right not to fund liberal media.

By asserting PBS and NPR are "promoting a political agenda" you're 1) ignorant of their programming, or 2) a liar putting out RW propaganda, or 3) ignorant and a liar.

It is obvious the usual echo chamber members who have posted on this thread have never watched PBS or listened to NPR and don't have a clue as to the depth and diversity of radio and TV programming. One may excuse the echo chamber of their collective ignorance, willfull and otherwise, for they simply repeat whatever their favorite talking head tells them.

Perhaps you can answer the question that no one else seems to want to touch:

Why should the government be in the news business?

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Forget NPR let's talk about ...

Microsoft (fuck anti-trust laws)
GE ( Bailout sucking / pro-healthcare reform bias ... Mo money mo money mo money!!!! )
National Broadcasting Company.

...MSGENBC!!!!!

You'd think the left would be condemning the hell out of this after the never ending chorus of cheney and halliburton. Now we have a mingling of gm, ge, msnbc, government bailout stimuli to these companies under O and the silence is deafening.

 

[daveman]

Forget NPR let's talk about ...

Microsoft (fuck anti-trust laws)
GE ( Bailout sucking / pro-healthcare reform bias ... Mo money mo money mo money!!!! )
National Broadcasting Company.

...MSGENBC!!!!!

You'd think the left would be condemning the hell out of this after the never ending chorus of cheney and halliburton. Now we have a mingling of gm, ge, msnbc, government bailout stimuli to these companies under O and the silence is deafening.

They don't oppose propaganda. They just oppose propaganda that doesn't serve their agenda.

 

[uscitizen]

$1 is too much...

Pay for it yourself....

Exactly.

I do I gave $1,000 this year.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

Until i see Conservatives on NPR,i will fully support their defunding. It's interesting how often you see the Socialist/Progressive Democrats pushing their 'Fairness Doctrine' stuff yet they don't support fairness at Government-funded Media Outlets. They constantly attack privately owned Media Outlets demanding "Fairness." I would think some sort of 'Fairness Doctrine' should definitely be applied to Government-funded Media Outlets especially. I don't care about privately owned Media. As long as NPR & PBS receive Tax Dollars,they should be forced to present fairness. They should be forced to hire Conservatives. If this doesn't happen,they should go it alone with only private funding. No balance,no Tax Dollars. End of story.

 

[BlindBoo]

Personally I think the FCC should revoke the Faux News license to broadcast.

As soon as your done wiping your ass with the 1st amendment feel free to pick up a remote and change the channel.

Wipe your own ass from the ignorance shit that is clinging to it.

The Bill of Rights is the contract between the citizens and the government not a contract between media corporations and the government.

The Fairness Doctrine: How We Lost it, and Why We Need it Back

A broadcast licensee shall afford reasonable opportunity for discussion of conflicting views on matters of public importance.�

It is the purpose of the First Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to countenance monopolization of that market, whether it be by the government itself or a private licensee. It is the right of the public to receive suitable access to social, political, esthetic, moral and other ideas and experiences which is crucial here. That right may not constitutionally be abridged either by Congress or by the FCC.
� U.S. Supreme Court, Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, 1969.

 

[uscitizen]

I don't think any one 'fears' PBS.... we just don't think we should fund shit when it is clearly promoting a political agenda. You want to pay for it, great. I don't want to. You should respect my right not to fund liberal media.

By asserting PBS and NPR are "promoting a political agenda" you're 1) ignorant of their programming, or 2) a liar putting out RW propaganda, or 3) ignorant and a liar.

It is obvious the usual echo chamber members who have posted on this thread have never watched PBS or listened to NPR and don't have a clue as to the depth and diversity of radio and TV programming. One may excuse the echo chamber of their collective ignorance, willfull and otherwise, for they simply repeat whatever their favorite talking head tells them.

Perhaps you can answer the question that no one else seems to want to touch:

Why should the government be in the news business?

To promote one independent non corporate controlled source of programming?

 

[BlindBoo]

Personally I think the FCC should revoke the Faux News license to broadcast.

Of course you do. You're afraid of differing views.

What differing views? They just air the same old talking points from the party of "No" 24/7.

The Fairness Doctrine: How We Lost it, and Why We Need it Back

In answer to charges, put forward in the Red Lion case, that the doctrine violated broadcasters� First Amendment free speech rights because the government was exerting editorial control, Supreme Court Justice Byron White wrote: �There is no sanctuary in the First Amendment for unlimited private censorship operating in a medium not open to all.� In a Washington Post column (1/31/94), the Media Access Project (MAP), a telecommunications law firm that supports the Fairness Doctrine, addressed the First Amendment issue: �The Supreme Court unanimously found [the Fairness Doctrine] advances First Amendment values. It safeguards the public�s right to be informed on issues affecting our democracy, while also balancing broadcasters� rights to the broadest possible editorial discretion.�

Indeed, when it was in place, citizen groups used the Fairness Doctrine as a tool to expand speech and debate. For instance, it prevented stations from allowing only one side to be heard on ballot measures. Over the years, it had been supported by grassroots groups across the political spectrum, including the ACLU, National Rifle Association and the right-wing Accuracy In Media.

 

[daveman]

By asserting PBS and NPR are "promoting a political agenda" you're 1) ignorant of their programming, or 2) a liar putting out RW propaganda, or 3) ignorant and a liar.

It is obvious the usual echo chamber members who have posted on this thread have never watched PBS or listened to NPR and don't have a clue as to the depth and diversity of radio and TV programming. One may excuse the echo chamber of their collective ignorance, willfull and otherwise, for they simply repeat whatever their favorite talking head tells them.

Perhaps you can answer the question that no one else seems to want to touch:

Why should the government be in the news business?

To promote one independent non corporate controlled source of programming?

So you don't want a corporate-controlled outlet...but you'll accept a government-controlled outlet?

Like I said...what happened to the Left in this country? What happened to the automatic distrust of The Man?

Oh, that's right...they grew up and became The Man.

I'll bet the left wouldn't be defending NPR so passionately if they presented a conservative view.