| Do you pay for NPR? [message #213366] |
Tue, 15 August 2006 09:28  |
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DarkDemin
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Why are tax payers forced to pay for something the neither like nor want. National Public Radio is a highly liberal biased radio station that is broadcast in all fifty states and frankly no one really likes their programming. Even my liberal friends don't like NPR because their cynicism and blatant hate for everyone that doesn't agree with them is disgusting. NPR has two shows that pretty much support their entire station; Prairie Home Companion and Car Talk. These are how they generate most of their donations during their what seems like weekly fund raisers.
The shows that really disgust me are "This American Life" and "The Diane Reems Show," they both pretty much contain the same Bush bashing, war hating bullshit. But "This American Life" goes farther, it goes to find the ONE soldier that wishes to return his medals earned in Iraq. The host tries to make it sound like he wants to return them because he is against the war but really the soldier tries to make it clear he wants to return them because he feels that he doesn't deserve them. But through editing and crappy sound clips they manage to hide that from the normally brainwashed audience.
Now you are probably asking if I hate it so much why am I listening. I usually turn it on right before I go to bed because they have the BBC on at night (which isn't much better but BBC at night is just news reports no opinion crap.) But if it is still on in the morning and something catches my ear that I just have to hear I'll leave it on to see how it is spun into a pile of extremist liberal shit.
From most of my research the only reason NPR keeps some of its funding is becuase democrats complain that we are trying to take a publicly controlled free source of news. My question is to you: How many of you watch PBS or listen to NPR and is it really worth tax payers money?
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| Re: Do you pay for NPR? [message #213379 is a reply to message #213366] |
Tue, 15 August 2006 11:07  |
KIRBY-098
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It's an interesting public format, and they actually do present opposing opinions. Of all the stations out there, NPR's reporting is fairly on key with some notable exceptions.
They reported critically on Clinton as well as Bush Sr. and his predecessors.
Not to mention they actually veer off the usual doom and gloom to report nicely constructed stories on everyday life.
I vote republican, and I cringe at times, but the reporting for the most part is balanced.
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| Re: Do you pay for NPR? [message #213385 is a reply to message #213366] |
Tue, 15 August 2006 12:15 |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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Next you'll be saying C-SPAN's biased and is a waste of taxpayer money, DarkDemin.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
The Liberal Media At Work
An objective look at media partisanship
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| Re: Do you pay for NPR? [message #213552 is a reply to message #213411] |
Wed, 16 August 2006 10:16 |
runewood
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I love NPR. I wouldn't listen to anyother station. Im not a hardcore liberal at all. My family considers me a republican, I consider myself independant but w/e.
The point is NPR is good. They may have some bad shows but all stations do.
"Don't try to be a great man, just be a man. Let history make it's own judgments."
"Maybe its not the destination that matters, but the journey."
"How many people does it take before its wrong? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A million?"
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| Re: Do you pay for NPR? [message #214239 is a reply to message #213366] |
Sun, 20 August 2006 21:34 |
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Oblivion165
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| null wrote on Tue, 15 August 2006 17:25 |
LOL @ Comparing C-SPAN to NPR.
LOL.
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There is no use or need for that image, please try to keep a welcome enviroment for everyone of any race or nation.
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| Re: Do you pay for NPR? [message #215336 is a reply to message #214520] |
Sat, 26 August 2006 11:36 |
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Oblivion165
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| DarkDemin wrote on Tue, 22 August 2006 16:15 |
| Oblivion165 wrote on Mon, 21 August 2006 00:34 |
| null wrote on Tue, 15 August 2006 17:25 |
LOL @ Comparing C-SPAN to NPR.
LOL.
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There is no use or need for that image, please try to keep a welcome enviroment for everyone of any race or nation.
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Get off your moral high ground, it is utter bullshit.
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I may not be as sophisticated to hit a racoon with a bat, but I dont think this is exactly a over sensitivity. It's subject has killed many people, and is a major problem in society.
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