This is tiresome.
Posted on 10/23/2020 5:25:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
"Public broadcasting" is a comical phrase. Its audience is not the public. It is the left. PBS and NPR don't care one iota what everyone else thinks...even if everyone else pays a chunk of their budget through taxes.
On the morning before the last presidential debate, Kelly McBride, NPR's "public editor" -- the person who is supposed to bring outside perspectives from the public into the NPR bubble -- tweeted, "Why haven't you seen any stories from NPR about the NY Post's Hunter Biden story?" Below a link to her newsletter was a quote in bold type from Terence Samuel, NPR's managing editor for news: "We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions."
In McBride's newsletter, Samuel added: "And quite frankly, that's where we ended up, this was ... a politically driven event and we decided to treat it that way."
This is beyond sick coming from NPR. Nina Totenberg made Anita Hill a legend with sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas that were never proven. It was the very definition of a "politically driven event," a story leaked to Totenberg by Senate Democrats to sabotage the Thomas nomination. No one at NPR said that was an unvetted waste of time, a "pure distraction."
Every allegation of sexual assault made against Brett Kavanaugh was a "politically driven event," and Christine Blasey Ford, the most acclaimed accuser, couldn't even define a time or a place to her supposed meeting with Kavanaugh. This is why NPR's declarations about "pure distractions" look extremely partisan.
The essence of McBride's argument is simply, "Consider the source." If it came from a Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper and two supporters of President Donald Trump, then it has to be garbage. "Intelligence officials warn that Russia has been working overtime to keep the story of Hunter Biden in the spotlight. Even if Russia can't be positively connected to this information, the story of how Trump associates Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani came into a copy of this computer hard drive has not been verified and seems suspect."
They put NPR's media correspondent David Folkenflik on the case -- a man who routinely rains fire on Fox News and who wrote an entire book ripping into Rupert Murdoch. This was a promotional blurb for his book from Booklist: "One cannot, even facetiously, describe this account ... as 'fair and balanced.' It is neither." Folkenflik said the New York Post story was "suspect" and the main reporter worked for Sean Hannity. He scorned it as "speculative partisan advocacy. "
When she became NPR's "public editor" in April, McBride promised, "As I watch NPR, I promise to do so through the eyes of you, the audience -- the core audience, and also those of you dipping your toes in around the edges of NPR." She asked how NPR could broaden its audience. "Although I'm the advocate for the audience that NPR has right now, I'll be mindful of NPR's mission to broaden it. Through encouragement and accountability, I hope to hold the door open for new and diverse communities to connect with public radio."
That's obviously baloney. NPR is catering every day to its "core audience" of left-wing partisans, and its dismissal of any kind of Biden family scandal reeks of a disdain for "(holding) the door open" to all the taxpayers who pay some of NPR's bills. Just like Folkenflik's book, it's easy to proclaim that one cannot, even facetiously, describe NPR as fair and balanced. It is neither.
Republicans can’t even defund a lowly-rated government news/propaganda organization that opposes them constantly.
Pathetic.
Trump should have started his administration by refusing to sign any piece of legislation until NPR was defunded. NPR was quite open about their opposition to Trump throughout the 2016 campaign. The sooner this is done the better.
I am fine with any media organization propagating whatever propaganda, lies and biases they wish to. I am not fine with being forced to fund this activity at gunpoint, which is what is now happening with NPR.
If you think this is hyperbole, just refuse to fund NPR by withholding your tax payments and see what happens.
Most of our “representatives” are self serving. Definitely not for the people. There only goal is to get re-elected.
80-90% of govt employees are left wingers, same with journalists/broadcasting
NPR is essentially news by the left, for the left
Exactly
Absolutely
It should have been shut down long ago.
With respect to your comments about Minority Leader McCarthy, I have little confidence that he will be any better than Ryan, Boehner, or Hastert if he should become Speaker of the House. Better than Pelosi, but too much of a RINO.
This is tiresome.
Mexico had one party rule for 100 years with the same. They also funded elections with govt money and had voter fraud.
In 1994 Mexico instituted voter id and the opposition won. Also marked the first political assasination in 100 years too.
Sadly, since then Mexico has devolved into a narco state and the only thing that will change that is war.
The USA is perilously close to following Mexico’s footsteps
Someone asked for the name of the person who confirmed the laptop info and who the “big guy” was.
The name is Bobulinski.
Federal funding for public broadcasting needs to end. Period.
The mainstream news deep ties to the obama administration should clear up any confusion on the reluctance to cover the biden corruption stories.
They covered the debunked Steele Dossier
Thanks very much, Google was unsurprisingly unhelpful at correcting my spelling attempts.
I LOVED the way Trump talked down to the pedophile last night.
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I keep asking myself:
“Why did the DNC and MSM choose retired, weak, old and confused Joe Biden for their POTUS candidate?”
My only conclusion is: He’s got well-protected dirt on a crapload of swamp dwellers.
“Why aren’t you President if you know everying better?”
Why are you on a political discussion board if you don’t want to have political discussions?
NPR is pure unadulterated boring. Everything the think is funny is not funny. There are comedies on Netflix that I describe as funny only in an NPR kind of way. Liberals laugh that phony tittering laugh that you can tell is not a real laugh. I mean, a real hearty laugh is a biological event, you can tell if it is actually happening or not. Even the best actors can’t fake a real laugh.
Any time someone mentions a story that they heard on NPR it is almost never going to be interesting conversation.
“Little Achmed gathers mussels in a coffee can at the shore of the Red Sea.” —Goat noises, cowbells clanking, indistinct background voices— “Ever since the Egyptian government was taken over by the military, little Achmed has had to walk 12 miles to sell his paltry mussel harvest at the marketplace.” —Goat noises, cowbells clanking, indistinct background voices— —little Achmed speaking in Arabic— voiceover: It is really hard to find enough mussels at this big water. “Little Achmed must earn enough money to support his family of 17 by gathering mussels at the shore of the Red Sea and taking them to a marketplace 12 miles away. Now, back to All Things Considered.” —snippet of ecclectic jazz-like music—
I mean I sympathize with poor little Achmed, but I don’t find that sort of thing even remotely interesting. And it is hour after hour of pablum. If they had to earn their money by being interesting they would be much more entertaining.
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