[Vision2020] No government support for NPR et al?

Wed Mar 23 12:19:37 PDT 2011

Donovan Arnold wrote: Public radio is important to those of us that don't
want only corporate owned media deciding who gets to speak and what is said
and the stories covered.  So again, please explain to me how a $1 million
donation to NPR from George Soros is not evidence of a political bias.  And
he will have no influence on who gets to speak and what is covered?!?!

And while you're at it, explain to me how, sine 2004, almost 90% of
political contributions from members of the boards of NPR and the NPR
Foundation has gone to Democratic candidates and liberal-leaning political
action committees.  No strings attached on content?

Nope, still no bias there!  But feel free to keep livin' the dream!

GS

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Donovan Arnold <
donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> What good is freedom of speech if you cannot afford the microphone? Public
> radio is important to those of us that don't want only corporate owned media
> deciding who gets to speak and what is said and the stories covered.
>
> Public radio is not a huge expense to the public. I understand that many
> people disagree with what is said and covered on public radio, however,
> there are plenty of other radio and television shows to counter ten times
> over whatever is said on public radio. We all have to pay taxes for things
> we disagree with. Suck it up and be grateful we live in a country where
> everyone gets a voice even if it falls on deaf ears.
>
> Donovan Arnold
>
> --- On *Tue, 3/22/11, Glenn Schwaller <vpschwaller at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Glenn Schwaller <vpschwaller at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] No government support for NPR et al?
> To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 4:49 PM
>
>
> Just one Campbell?
>
> After the NAACP accused the Tea Party of racism, NPR's political
> editor Ken Rudin said that the organization was “responding to … an
> ugly spectacle of members, African-American members of Congress, who
> when they came out from voting on the health care reform several
> months ago, they heard epithets from people outside, so-called Tea
> Party protesters outside. Emanuel Cleaver, a black congressman from
> Missouri, said he was spat upon. So they called – they passed this
> resolution to, you know, to stop tolerating bigotry.”
>
> Rudin didn't mention that multiple videos of the congressmen walking
> through the protesters showed no evidence that any racist language or
> physical assaults occurred. Conservative media mogul Andrew Breitbart
> offered $10,000 to anyone who could produce footage of the alleged
> spitting incident, and nobody was able to do so.
>
> oh how about 2 . .
>
> Last September, NPR reporter Terry Gross described town hall protests
> against President Obama as “a right-wing movement that has been
> interrupting town hall meetings, staging tea party protests, and
> challenging Obama's citizenship,” implying that the entire movement
> was based on wild suspicion over Obama's birthplace rather than
> rational anger over economic issues.
>
> And this doesn't even touch on the issue of $5 million dangled from a
> "Muslim Brotherhood" organization, nor George Soros' $1 million
> donation to NPR as evidence of the organization's political bias.
>
> Nope, none there!
>
> GS
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Joe Campbell
> <philosopher.joe at gmail.com<http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=philosopher.joe@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > State one left wing point of view that NPR broadcasts, Roger. Just one.
> >
> > They broadcast news. You are so used to listening to the lies on Fox that
> > you confuse them for "points of view."
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:17 AM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com<http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=lfalen@turbonet.com>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> If  NPR wants to broadcast left wing points of view and supporters are
> >> willing to fund it, more power to them.
> >> Roger
> >> -----Original message-----
> >> From: "Robert Dickow" dickow at turbonet.com<http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dickow@turbonet.com>
> >> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:18:10 -0700
> >> To: vision2020 at moscow.com<http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vision2020@moscow.com>
> >> Subject: [Vision2020] No government support for NPR et al?
> >>
> >> > I hear that the conservative congressmen have proposed withdrawing
> >> > government funding for NPR. Apparently a newscaster or fund drive
> person
> >> > or
> >> > somebody made some disparaging remarks about the Tea Party. Fie! Fie!
> >> > Now,
> >> > denying public broadcasting all those scarce taxpayer dollars sounds
> >> > like a
> >> > reasonable and just response to such offenses if you're a conservative
> >> > Republican sympathetic with the Tea Party movement, right? Uh
> huh.sure.
> >> > How
> >> > dumb can anybody be?! NPR won't suddenly go belly up and go off the
> air,
> >> > slinking off into the shadows with its tail between its legs. Private
> >> > donors-- those dwindling middle class stalwarts-- will valiantly step
> up
> >> > to
> >> > the plate in ever greater numbers. So what will actually happen, then,
> >> > is
> >> > that NPR will be unfettered and free to unleash all their rabid commie
> >> > pinko
> >> > liberal gun-hating womens libber staffers to say all the rabid commie
> >> > pinko
> >> > tea-barfing they've always wanted to say but didn't because they felt
> >> > compelled to be balanced in their commie pinko tree-hugging opinions
> and
> >> > bleeding-heart liberal union thug biased news reporting. Clearly, this
> >> > government measure will not serve the common good. And I may be forced
> >> > to
> >> > mix even more metaphors in the future.
> >> >
> >> > Bob Dickow, troublemaker
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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