Posted on 07/15/2017 11:22:36 AM PDT by mdittmar
Even at a time of great political division, there is broad consensus that National Public Radio provides a tremendous service. The journalism produced by NPR includes investigations that expose corruption, podcasts that make audiences think, Tiny Desk Concerts that wow and amaze, and coverage of an incredibly broad range of important and interesting issues. Unfortunately, NPR is using contract negotiations with SAG-AFTRA to propose a second class of minimum pay and benefits for new employees. This would undermine the quality work that NPR journalists have provided us, as a country, for many decades.
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Here's an old song I like.
It’s like 2 kids on the beach arguing about who has the best sand castle. A big wave then comes along. Moral: does it matter?
Shut it down.
NPR is a proven sleep aide. It cures insomnia.
Was that consensus gathered from NPR employees only? LOLOL
Why are these parasites still sucking money out of taxpayers? This subsidized propaganda should be shutdown NOW.
i don’t seem to recall npr doing any investigation into anything democrat.
Give them something to really cry about: defund NPR NOW!
Remove NPR from the 2017-2018 budget. Now’s the time to do it.
Ya that got me too. Among which people is there a broad consensus??? Liberals???
Imho, cut NPR and Public TV from the government teat.
If the PTB are smart, they will survive and probably thrive.
If not, they will die.
5.56mm
It’s easy to get a consensus when you exclude anyone who disagrees with the consensus.
See #FakeScienceGlobalWarming or #FakeScienceClimateChange for reference.
Naturally this wasn’t an issue when Obama was President.
Arise Ye Prisoners of Plenty ... err ... ah ... wait a minute -— oh hell, never mind!
Bull Sh*t! This is high-brow entertainment paid extracted from the average taxpayer who would never consider listening to it. If you want to listen to this stuff, start your own private network and attract an audience.
NPR’s got (overpriced) “Talent”?
I’ll say nothing against that - but merely add that even when not government-subsidized, journalism is a bias. All commercial journalism focuses on bad news because bad news sells. Not because it is typical of reality, but precisely because (“Man Bites Dog, not Dog Bites Man”) it is not representative of normal reality.Thus, journalism is negative, knowingly so - and yet journalism claims to be objective. This is tantamount to claiming that “negativity is objectivity.” State that baldly, and the claim is the very definition of cynicism.
The American Revolution was fought over the claim
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.that society is prior to government, and that government is an evil which is only justified to the extent required by justifiable skepticism of the perfection of society.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
Thus, naiveté toward society would argue for no government, skepticism toward society is an argument for limited government - and cynicism toward society argues for tyranny. It seems that skepticism toward government is inversely related to skepticism toward society. Cynicism among journalists seems to be exclusively directed toward society - and toward Republicans - and no journalistic skepticism at all is directed toward "the party of government."
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