Posted on 03/12/2011 12:34:13 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Where did this whole idea come from that news has to be unbiased anyway? Didn’t newspapers in the early years of this country declare their biases proudly by naming them the “Arkansas Democrat Gazette” or the “Arizona Republic?” Then you read or watch the news slant you want to read, and I’ll see the news slant I want to read. Neither source gets funded by the Feds and taxpayer dollars, and everybody’s happy. That is, until the Democrat news source goes bankrupt because nobody watches it.
I have no problem w/Nationalized Public Radio being liberal, I just don’t want to pay for it.
Pray for America
The last time I tuned into public radio about a year ago (because where I was, I couldn’t pick up any other public affairs/discussion shows), the three programs I listened to were so overwhelmingly slanted in their liberal bias, it was almost a caricature. Naturally, not every program on NPR will have some sort of political slant to it. But quite of few of them do.
Defund them, as you say, and we'll see what type of donors keep them afloat.
Oh, come on detch, surely you can’t hold someone to something said 16 years ago. Maybe she’s changed. Or maybe not. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj1L1QBlack&feature=related
:-)
When they add RUSH, Levin and Beck etc as contributors I’ll believe them.
Until then- nope.
Ira Glass went to Brown and worked in public radio for 30 years. He has not been near a clue his entire life.
Stop funding public radio. If any program is worth anything the private sector will pick it up.
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