Anyone Here Notice the Conservative Hue of National Public Radio Lately?
ChrisCoaster
"Governments making people lazy" - "Car Talk"
Various comments chiding Obama's efforts to National Health Care -
"Wait Wait Don't Tell Me"
I know in the past NPR had been accused of coming down left of center,
but now it seems the opposite is true.
Also, lots of news items during "ATC" and during the regular top of
the hour news round-ups regarding religion/religous issues.
If my taxes go toward fuding national public radio then I don't really
want a slant EITHER way.
-ChrisCoaster
ChrisCoaster
No one?
I'm listening right now - 8PM NY time on the general WNPR, and they
are talking about religous dialogue and the conflict between religion
and science.
The guest caller sounds really right of center - "doesn't think we
need dialogue on race", etc.
This is not what I want my taxes to be subsidizing: a theological
seminar!
-CC
Eric S. Harris
Me neither.
Given the fact that only the completely apolitical could avoid giving
some kind of slant, conscious or unconscious -- if only in their choice
of nouns and adjectives, and what stories to cover -- the only way to
avoid it would be to eliminate federal funding of public radio entirely.
Given the current budget situation and the huge number of broadcast
options, that sounds like a pretty reasonable approach. -Eric
P.S. Any hopes of somehow monitoring for bias and correcting it is
doomed. "Objectivity is in the eye of the beholder". -ESH
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ChrisCoaster
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"Eric S. Harris"? That handle gives me the shivers... (: o
Anywho, there is an alternative to NPR, but it goes further to the
left than NPR has been veering to the right, since after 9/11.
wbai.org This is a member of Pacifica Radio, and while I happen to
agree with at least 60% of what they transmit, they are privately
funded - mostly by individuals(no corporate donations accepted!). I
am a periodic donor, but then again, because I suppport Pacifica's
mission, I don't mind sending in the check.
But in the case of National PUBLIC Radio, where a small slice of my
taxes funds it whether I like it or not, they need to monitor their
stand on the politcal spectrum more carefully.
-CC
Eric S. Harris
It's not a handle, it's my name. You may be thinking of Eric DAVID
Harris. Used to live in Colorado, and got a lot of attention afterward.
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> But in the case of National PUBLIC Radio, where a small slice of my
> taxes funds it whether I like it or not, they need to monitor their
> stand on the politcal spectrum more carefully.
And how pray tell could they do that? And what if they don't? People
would notice and quit paying their taxes?
Puleez.
Now, if they had a check-off box on our individual tax forms as the sole
source of taxpayer funding, I could go for that.
And a correspondingly bigger (or smaller) one on corporate profits tax
forms, too. (Fair's fair, right?) -Eric