been listening to some npr..

[lazs2]

national public radio....  Work car has a radio.... radio isw nothing but commercials for 12 stations in a row.... hit seek

forgot how bad it was...  Can't believe we are forced to pay for this drivel...  At the same time.... I can see how it would not exist if it had to support itself.

Reviews of books by gay writers.   "debate" where a far left person takes one side and someone just very much left countrerbalances him.

Every lefty view ever espoused it brought up as simple known fact.

They even have the gall to call themselves "community supported radio".... like anyone had a choice?   Everything is political to them and everything political is only "correct" if it is lunitic fringe leftist.  

Non gay autor is being interviewed about non gay subject.... Subject is FDR... author is in love with FDR...  the birth of socialism...  Says we would not have things like fema without FDR or social security or welfare....  Acts like this would be a bad thing.   interviewer gushes.

So far they have not said one thing that I would not disagree with.   180 degrees out.  

If the "debate" about global warming and our affect on it is over... then why to they have to keep saying so every ten minutes even wnen not even talking about climate?

The whole show has such an air of propoganda and dishonesty that it is allmost laughable.

lazs

[Shuckins]

Sneering and contemptuous...at least that's the impression I got of it the times I've listened to it.  You can hear it in their voices when the dj's and commentators refer to ANY right-wing position or champion.

I was going to state at this point that a station funded by tax money ought to, at the very least, PRETEND to be fair and unbiased...and then I realized that that is EXACTLY what they do...pretend.

[beet1e]

Originally posted by lazs2
radio isw nothing but commercials for 12 stations in a row....

That's capitalism for you!

[Sandman]

FWIW, NPR receives just 2% of its funding from the federal government.

As to bias, this is what FAIR had to say about NPR in 2004.

[Chairboy]

2% public funding?  I imagine that the commercial stations you like receive quite a bit more in tax relief.

[SFCHONDO]

Thank God for XM radio. Music, Music music.  

[Shuckins]

Actually, NPR was 100% funded by the federal government 20 years ago.  Criticism from the right curtailed some of that...but NPR still gets a large chunk of its funding from CPB, which is heavily funded by the federal government.

As to fairness, the political commentaries I have heard broadcast by them seem to be heavily partisan.

Just my impression of course.

[lasersailor184]

The original name of NPR was not NPR, but very similar, and ironic too.


5 points to the person who can tell me the original name.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Shuckins
Actually, NPR was 100% funded by the federal government 20 years ago.  Criticism from the right curtailed some of that...but NPR still gets a large chunk of its funding from CPB, which is heavily funded by the federal government.

Doh... you're right. I looked through the CPB site and the NPR site, and I can't figure out how much money they get from CPB.

[Hap]

i listen to and enjoy npr more than the "yelling heads."

hap

[Yeager]

the politics on npr are for liberal socialists, no good for anyone else.  the science and arts on npr are worth listening to.  the trick is to get in and out before the drubbing starts.  But I havent listened to npr for a long time now.

[rpm]

Lazs in a nutshell: If it ain't Limbaugh, it's lefty.

[SOB]

Originally posted by beet1e
That's capitalism for you!

Capitalism, in this case, is the choice to listen to the commercials, or spring for XM or Serius Satellite Radio.

[lazs2]

thanks sandie... the fair article was good... seems about everyone believes they are far left.  83% of all their info comes from "journalists"?   of which...  over 80% are considered liberal as a class... even if they were picking em randomly they would have better than 80% of their content fed to em by liberals

2% of their funding is tax money?  I would have to see a source on that... I do know that they were 100% not long ago.   If it is only 2% then why bother?   They don't need it.   I did notice a lot more commercials than I recall they had in the past.

Sob... thanks  beat me too it... capitalism is satalite radio in my Lincoln and big block noises in my el camino.   Both of which beat anything I could listen too in limey land.

Just heard em say that they were doing a show on "fear"  they gave the example of how people are more afraid of global terrorism than of global warming even tho (as everyone surely knows...) global warming is the the more serious threat!

yeah... if you are a socialist and your name is chicken little!


What I think is funny is that the right wing stations aren't afraid to be called so but the left wingers are so dishonest and evasive about the word "liberal".

Why are so many liberals ashamed of being identified as such?

lazs

[Lye-El]

I listen to NPR more than any other radio station. Just not for politics or music. News, car talk and such. I can't stand regular radio because of all the advertising. Same problem trying to sit down and watch the news on TV. Keeps going to commerical. And all the channels go at the same time.