WTF is NPR doing a weeklong series with CONSERVATIVES?

[musiclawyer]

Is there goignt to be a weeklong series with liberals? What's the best e-mail contact for NPR? I want to go off on them.

[Dinger]

1. Is There A Link? (nt)

[rox63]

2. I nearly lost my breakfast yesterday morning when they had Glen Beck on

:puke:

[Blue_Tires]

3. like CNN some years ago, they caved to the pressure of the 'bias' accusations

[rurallib]

12. They caved long, long ago

Remember Bob Edwards?
About 4 years ago I remember a "debate" they had on SSI between a guy from the American Enterprise Institute and the Manhattan Institute.
Seems like whenever there is an issue, they always be sure to get a think-tanker on to give a perspective.
Steve Innskeep to Bob Edwards is like Tweety compared to Murrow.
Some times I must listen to NPR and I listen with a very wary ear.

[Cabcere]

4. "Know thine enemy," maybe?

;) :shrug: I don't know.

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. NPR's governors are appointed by the president.

Conservatives are not their enemy.

[Buzz Clik]

5. I'm sorry -- have they hired Glen Beck? Tucker Carlson?

Or are they simply reporting about them?

I'm not afraid of information on any subject.

[kcwayne]

7. I quit listening and donating to NPR when they went to the dark side

When NPR got re-commissioned under the "Contract with America" nightmare, and decided that they needed to become a propaganda outlet for conservatives, I lost all interest in their reporting.

Its not that I want to listen to leftist propaganda, but when they are simply echoing the falsities and absurdities of the right, and are afraid to challenge the memes funneled from the Republican party they are no better than Fox. If I want to listen to bullshit, its free.

There is no reason to support them when they are nothing more than a government mouthpiece with a little "liberal" window dressing. The window dressing will be gone shortly, and the right wing will still lambaste them as kooky liberal media as they echo Fox talking points. And those too young or too stupid to recognize the difference between propaganda and journalism will think someone asking Glen Beck a question and not simply talking about their shared ideologies is a flaming radical.

[rurallib]

13. I have such fond memories of the NPR of the 70s and 80s

Now it is mostly house organ.

[jaksavage]

8. NPR has sold out.

It is hardly the bastion of freedom it once was.

kboo.fm, true independant radio.

[mak3cats]

9. I wondered the same thing this morning!

I'm a monthly donor to NPR, and only because my local station is full of great people. If it weren't for them, I'd have quit a long time ago.

Here's NPR's national home page:

http://www.npr.org/

[Vanje]

10. Contact NPR Ombudsman with your opinion

http://www.npr.org/ombudsman/

[rurallib]

14. I wrote my local station with some complaints and basically got

a fuck you in return.
I complained about a local personality using RW talking points as questions in an interview with our Dem senator. They were not happy.

[Vanje]

11. NPR is an organ of the American Enterprise Institute

Has been since Newt Gingrich's reign in congress

[Metta]

15. NPR has put its genitals in conservative pockets long ago.

Ever since the Bush thugs began making waves about shutting them down. I haven't listened for years. Poor Daniel Shore.

[underpants]

16. Grover Norquist was on this morning

I couldn't recognize the whiny snively voice until they said his name at the end of it

According to Grover if Republicans say "protect the border" they will be more successful than if they say "enforce the law" (deport)

[bobbolink]

17. That was the government plan. Cut the gov't subsidies to PBS & NPR so they have to sell their souls

to the corporations to get $$$ to operate.

See how well the plan is working???

[hunter]

18. An "alternative" presentation of the usual U.S. media blather.

The corporate oligarchy lets that dog sleep on the sofa, and the dog appreciates it.