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NPR Cans Ronald Schiller
Slate.com ^ | March 08, 2011 | By David Weigel

Posted on 03/08/2011 3:41:39 PM PST by library user

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To: SatinDoll
WCRB was an All Classical commercial station. The owners were going to sell it, and it was about to become yet another talk station in Boston.

WGBH, the public radio station, always played Classical music in the mornings,and sometimes on the weekends. They learned of the sale of WCRB, and decided to try a listener supported All Classical format. It seems to have been a success, and I suspect that others, like I, who would never have sent a dime to WGBH, are supporting WCRB. There are limited commercials on the station, as well, from businesses that had advertised on WCRB before, and continued on after the sale. They are very tasteful, of course. ;o)

61 posted on 03/08/2011 7:59:13 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ; SatinDoll
WCRB was an All Classical commercial station. The owners were going to sell it, and it was about to become yet another talk station in Boston.

WGBH, the public radio station, always played Classical music in the mornings,and sometimes on the weekends. They learned of the sale of WCRB, and decided to try a listener supported All Classical format. It seems to have been a success, and I suspect that others, like I, who would never have sent a dime to WGBH, are supporting WCRB. There are limited commercials on the station, as well, from businesses that had advertised on WCRB before, and continued on after the sale. They are very tasteful, of course. ;o)

KDFC (San Francisco), another classical music station, recently became listener-supported, and it is very refreshing to listen to.

62 posted on 03/08/2011 8:02:03 PM PST by thecodont
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To: library user

The comments contained in the video released today Sum up everything we stand for, and we completely support the views expressed. NPR is fair and open minded about the people we slander and smear. Our reporting reflects those liberal progressive values every single day – in the lack of civility of our programming, the singularity of opinion we reflect and the diversity of stories we invent.

The assertion that the American Public would be better off without federal funding for NPR does not reflect reality. The elimination of federal funding would significantly damage public broadcasting as a whole. Its just not fair so just stop it. WAaaaaaaaa!!!!


63 posted on 03/08/2011 8:07:55 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: tioga

The gullible die first....all of them.


64 posted on 03/08/2011 9:41:50 PM PST by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
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To: rtbwood

NPR = National (communist) Propaganda Radio, which should have never received one dime in tax payer funds.


65 posted on 03/09/2011 1:38:41 AM PST by M. Espinola
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To: TribalPrincess2U

It does change one thing. The next time some idiot calls and wants to donate five million and have lunch at a fancy restaurant in DC...there will hours and hours of investigation to determine if they are legit or not.


66 posted on 03/09/2011 4:12:18 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: library user
“NPR is fair and open minded about the people we cover. “

Hah hah!!
That would be a great line to read over and over while downing a good beer with friends!
Laughter is always relaxing!

67 posted on 03/09/2011 5:24:17 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Yes We Can, have smaller government)
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To: tioga

I figured SIL meantyour sister in law. I just wanted to yank your chain and give you a laugh. :0)

NPR (National Socialist Propaganda Radio)is mindless drivel for drones who are too lazy to read,research and dig.


68 posted on 03/09/2011 7:13:00 AM PST by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: antonico

“...But these underhanded things have a way of reaping some bad karma of the same kind....”

Disagree, respectfully. The left has been “underhanding”, undermining, subverting, and basically erasing everything good about this country for decades now.

Episodes like this NPR one, and the prior ACORN videos, expose exactly what kind of trash these subversive assh*les really are, what they think of the rest of us, and I’ll wager, if we probe deeper, what they think they could DO to us if they could get away with it.

If we’re going to beat them, we need to expose them. And NOTHING exposes them more than their own words. It’s one thing to hear things second-hand - that can be easily refuted and the argument changed into a “He said/She said” contest, and quickly becomes “who ya gonna believe - me (insert media personality/pop culture icon/clueless View Bimbo) or that EVIL right-wing/white supremacist/Fundamentalist Christian/Militia-paramilitary/islamo/homophobic hatemonger”???

But it becomes an entirely different thing altogether when you actually hear the vile crap they spew and put faces on them, seeing it come from their own mouths. They CAN’T refute it.

No, brother, this is good. They’re getting a spotlight shined on them, and like the cockroaches they are, they’re trying to hide from the light and maintain their “cover”.

I say good on ya, O’Keefe - at least someone finally has the balls to go after the sources of the infection.

Fight fire with superior firepower. And a lot of balls.


69 posted on 03/09/2011 8:55:46 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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