NPR - biased or just bad humor?

[uscitizen]

Learn To Speak Tea Bag

Should publicly financed media take sides?

Ummm both? I found it biased AND not very funny.

And yes, they should have the fairness doctrine instituted on them as a test case. Could you see the freakout if Bill Moyers was forced to share air time with Glenn Beck?

Good idea. If they want fairness doctrine, why don't they test how it works on public media first. That will, for sure, make many happy.

Umm being public is the point of ALL media isn't it?

 

[Ame®icano]

They are publicly funded, therefore, they should be required to not take sides or provide all sides. A private corporation can choose it's content. NPR/PBS is not representing equally to all citizens, therefore it is perfectly legitimate to demand this of them.

Otherwise, become a private entity and avoid it.

They do provide all sides.

How many sides is that?

 

[uscitizen]

Often at least 3 sides. Republican, Democrat and the truth.

 

[Ame®icano]

Learn To Speak Tea Bag

Should publicly financed media take sides?

lol

Grow a pair.

Said someone who can only dream about it.

 

[uscitizen]

Now now she might have a very nice pair. Ladies pairs are different from guys pairs. Unless you are Rush or Rove? Or those 2 McCain rally fans in my avitar.

 

[Ame®icano]

Ummm both? I found it biased AND not very funny.

And yes, they should have the fairness doctrine instituted on them as a test case. Could you see the freakout if Bill Moyers was forced to share air time with Glenn Beck?

Good idea. If they want fairness doctrine, why don't they test how it works on public media first. That will, for sure, make many happy.

Umm being public is the point of ALL media isn't it?

Thats the point and a goal of ALL socialists.

 

[uscitizen]

Good idea. If they want fairness doctrine, why don't they test how it works on public media first. That will, for sure, make many happy.

Umm being public is the point of ALL media isn't it?

Thats the point and a goal of ALL socialists.

And capitalists as well. It is called marketing and advertising, market penetration, etc.
If Rush and Fox were not public they would be no problem.
Could they go to paid subscription only?

 

[Emma]

Learn To Speak Tea Bag

Should publicly financed media take sides?

lol

Grow a pair.

Said someone who can only dream about it.

Hate to burst your bubble LOL

Despite the commonness of such claims, little evidence has ever been presented for a left bias at NPR , and FAIR’s latest study gives it no support. Looking at partisan sources—including government officials, party officials, campaign workers and consultants—Republicans outnumbered Democrats by more than 3 to 2 (61 percent to 38 percent). A majority of Republican sources when the GOP controls the White House and Congress may not be surprising, but Republicans held a similar though slightly smaller edge (57 percent to 42 percent) in 1993, when Clinton was president and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. And a lively race for the Democratic presidential nomination was beginning to heat up at the time of the 2003 study.

Partisans from outside the two major parties were almost nowhere to be seen, with the exception of four Libertarian Party representatives who appeared in a single story (Morning Edition , 6/26/03).

Republicans not only had a substantial partisan edge, individual Republicans were NPR ’s most popular sources overall, taking the top seven spots in frequency of appearance. George Bush led all sources for the month with 36 appearances, followed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (8) and Sen. Pat Roberts (6). Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Secretary of State Colin Powell, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer and Iraq proconsul Paul Bremer all tied with five appearances each.

How Public Is Public Radio?

NPR ombudsman denied tilt toward conservative think tanks -- then demonstrated the tilt | Media Matters for America

Yet another finding that contradicted conventional wisdom relates to National Public Radio, often cited by conservatives as an egregious example of a liberal news outlet. But according to the UCLA-University of Missouri study, it ranked eighth most liberal of the 20 that the study examined.

"By our estimate, NPR hardly differs from the average mainstream news outlet," Groseclose said. "Its score is approximately equal to those of Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report and its score is slightly more conservative than The Washington Post's. If anything, government‑funded outlets in our sample have a slightly lower average ADA score (61), than the private outlets in our sample (62.8)."

 

[Emma]

Umm being public is the point of ALL media isn't it?

Thats the point and a goal of ALL socialists.

The Founders were socialists, eh?

lol

Thanks