NPR CEO to Argue for Public Funding of Public Broadcasting in National Press Club Address
by PubliusVivian Schiller to Discuss the Future of Public Radio in an Age of Budget Cuts, March 7
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NPR chief executive Vivian Schiller is leading an effort to persuade Congress not to slash funding for public broadcasting. She will make her case at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on March 7.
“The elimination of federal funding would be a significant blow to nearly 900 public radio stations that serve the needs of more than 38 million Americans with free over-the-air programming they can’t find anywhere else,” Ms. Schiller said. “It would diminish stations’ ability to bring high-quality local, national and international news to their communities, as well as local arts, music and cultural programming that other media don’t present. Rural and economically distressed communities could lose access to this programming altogether if their stations go dark.”
Schiller started her NPR career two years ago – a time when the U.S. economy was plunging. The media organization’s corporate underwriting was shriveling and its stock investments tumbling. Schiller was being introduced to the staff just as NPR was laying off workers, eliminating programs, reducing salaries and slashing travel budgets.
But even in those hard times, Schiller pushed for innovation and excellence, especially in the digital world.
Today, NPR has stabilized financially, and is flourishing both on the air and in the mobile and digital space. Under her leadership, NPR has continued to haul in top awards for journalistic excellence.
But her term has not been without controversy. Last fall, conservative groups sharply criticized NPR for its decision to cut ties with correspondent Juan Williams.
Before joining NPR, Schiller served as General Manager of NYTimes.com, the largest newspaper website. Previously, Schiller headed up the Discovery Times Channel, and had served as Senior Vice President of CNN Productions.
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Ms. Schiller said. “It would diminish stations’ ability to bring high-quality local, national and international news to their communities, as well as local arts, music and cultural programming that other media don’t present."
Well Ms. Schiller, lets put your money where your mouth is. Start selling some commercial spots, and let's see how wonderful your programming is.
Mrs. Schiller, you've already showed us your true colors with the whole Juan Williams firing. Your little scam on the American people is up, NO SOUP FOR YOU.
Didn't the left say that Gov't money made up less than 2% of NPR's income? Wasn't that the line they lied about 6 months ago? Now they are trying to change it?
I'd ask them to pick a side and stick with it, but since the President can't even do that, I'm not surprised in the least.
"Vivian Schiller, the NPR official responsible for exiling the dissident Williams to Fox News for the crime of bucking party orthodoxy. And amid all the hoopla about Schiller and this episode, there was something reported last week which, expectedly, has eluded media attention: namely, that Schiller once worked as a tour guide in the Soviet Union.
I've since looked into Schiller to try to find more information. Whom exactly did she work for? I assume she worked for the U.S. government, or for some American agency. I'd be shocked if she actually worked for the Soviet government. Can you imagine? A former Soviet tour guide, employed by the Soviet government, now running NPR? Imagine what conservative bloggers would do with that!
Importantly, however, that article notes how the twenty two year old Schiller's job as a tour guide in the USSR led to a job working for Ted Turner at Turner Broadcasting."
"In order to spend time in the Soviet Union, she first took a job as an au pair for a diplomatic family in Moscow, with some side work in a nursery school at the U.S. Embassy there. Schiller then found a position as a tour guide – another fortunate twist of fate, and one she credits with teaching her many of the fundamental skills she still uses today.
"I was a troubleshooter, an interpreter, a tour guide, an entertainer, and all that. I actually think that experience really laid the groundwork for me for a career in management," she says. "I think when I retire I'm going to write a book called 'Everything I Know I earned as a Tour Guide,' including how to lead the conga line."
I'll leave it to the readers to do the math here…..
http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4688
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/vivian_sch...
Just defund them. We don't need any education from NPR commies. Nobody (few anyway) watch the stupid shows like Dr Who and other dumbass shows.
It's time for the GOP to stand up. Public broadcasting is a literal transfer of taxpayer dollars to fund Leftist propaganda. Just like public sector union dues are a direct transfer of taxpayer dollars to Democrat party support.
For too long the GOP has played the fool as the Left has developed and entrenched these incestuous institutional relationships. It needs to be broken, now, and the GOP supported by the Tea Party is the only hope to break it. The very survival of the republic is at stake.
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"Free over the air programming they can't find anywhere else . . ." except NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC . . .
Schiller, Schill er thats a fitting name !!!
Not to mention that about 75% of US homes have internet access.
Yeah she knows that they can't get it free anywhere else because nobody would want to listen to that crap if they played by the same rules as everyone else.
It is stupid for PBS to take public money. As long as they do they will always be threatened. They should fund themselves that way they cannot be messed with.
What is it with progressives that they make money yet don't want to pay for this stuff. Greedy.
"Rural and economically distressed communities could lose access to this programming altogether if their stations go dark.”
Isn't that the demographic that these organizations are supposed to be catering to?
I just don't understand the liberal mentality when it comes to the public good. I recently watched a reality show based in the UK in which a gentleman decided to open a "peoples market" that would be a public good. The Store would act as a cooperative in which community members would participate in the running of the store and would shop there as members. His biggest problem was that enrollment was low since only middle class people in the neighborhood wanted to join. He didn't understand why until a local woman quite vocally told him that poor people cannot afford to buy artichokes and high priced organic meats.
This is what I feel is the problem with much of public broadcasting. It exists more to stroke the egos of dilettantes who think they know what the public wants rather than asking them what they actually need.
Take a look at that picture above again and take note as to where many of those dots reside.
NPR is digging themselves a hole with this hand-wringing. If they're admitting that they botched his firing then he has a wrongful termination lawsuit. He said something offensive. They had the right to fire him. End of story.
Wow! She is a communist sympathizer who specialized in promulgating the glories of Communism while working for the Soviets as a tour guide in the 1980's. Since then, she has graduated to promulgating the glories of Progressivism while working for NPR. Let us make sure her next job doesn't cost any US tax dollars.
“The elimination of federal funding would be a significant blow to nearly 900 public radio stations that serve the needs of more than 38 million Americans with free over-the-air programming they can’t find anywhere else,” Ms. Schiller said.
NEED. You hear that? Need is the justification. NEED. Let that sink in for a minute. Once again I must quote:
"I've chosen a special mission of my own. I'm after a man whom I want to destroy. He died many centuries ago, but until the last trace of him is wiped out of men's minds, we will not have a decent world to live in."
"What man?"
"Robin Hood. He was the man who robbed the rich and gave to the poor. Well, I'm the man who robs the poor and gives to the rich—or, to be exact, the man who robs the thieving poor and gives back to the productive rich."
"What in blazes do you mean?"
"If you remember the stories you've read about me in the newspapers, before they stopped printing them, you know that I have never robbed a private ship and never taken any private property. Nor have I ever robbed a military vessel—because the purpose of a military fleet is to protect from violence the citizens who paid for it, which is the proper function of a government. But I have seized every loot carrier that came within range of my guns, every government relief ship, subsidy ship, loan ship, gift ship, every vessel with a cargo of goods taken by force from some men for the unpaid, unearned benefit of others. I seized the boats that sailed under the flag of the idea which I am fighting: the idea that NEED is a sacred idol requiring human sacrifices—that the NEED of some men is the knife of a guillotine hanging over others—that all of us must live with our work, our hopes, our plans, our efforts at the mercy of the moment when that knife will descend upon us—and that the extent of our ability is the extent of our danger, so that success will bring our heads down on the block, while failure will give us the right to pull the cord.
This is the horror which Robin Hood immortalized as an ideal of righteousness. It is said that he fought against the looting rulers and returned the loot to those who had been robbed, but that is not the meaning of the legend which has survived. He is remembered, not as a champion of property, but as a champion of NEED, not as a defender of the robbed, but as a provider of the poor. He is held to be the first man who assumed a halo of virtue by practicing charity with wealth which HE DID NOT OWN, by giving away goods which HE HAD NOT PRODUCED, by making others pay for the luxury of HIS PITY. He is the man who became the symbol of the idea that NEED, not achievement, is the source of rights, that we don't have to produce, only to want, that the earned does not belong to us, but the unearned does. He became a justification for every mediocrity who, unable to make his own living, has demanded the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by proclaiming his willingness to devote his life to his inferiors at the price of robbing his superiors. It is this foulest of creatures—the double-parasite who lives on the sores, of the poor and the blood of the rich—whom men have come to regard as a moral ideal. And this has brought us to a world where the more a man produces, the closer he comes to the loss of all his rights, until, if his ability is great enough, he becomes a rightless creature delivered as prey to any claimant—while in order to be placed above rights, above principles, above morality, placed where anything is permitted to him, even plunder and murder, all a man has to do is to be in NEED. Do you wonder why the world is collapsing around us? That is what I am fighting. Until men learn that of all human symbols, Robin Hood is the most immoral and the most contemptible, there will be no justice on earth and no way for mankind to survive." -Ragnar Danneskjold, Atlas Shrugged
If NPR NEEDS funding, they can get some rich libs to cough up the cash. NPR has literally never done a thing for or to me other than take my tax dollars.
Why do I get a sinking feeling every time someone says the government should stop funding a program? They usually don't even if they say they will. Boehner's promise of $100 billion in cuts shrank to $46 billion pretty darn fast, didn't it? The deficit is $1.5 trillion. The proposed cuts change that number to $1.44 trillion. Remember that's the money we have to borrow – according to the government – to stay in business. Big, giant savings there, eh? I really don't think we can afford this government in any way, shape or form anymore. NPR – the sad thing is, the odds are with them to continue getting their funding.
And Ms. (because who the hell would marry someone like her) Schiller, the only thing it will 'diminish' is your ability to propagate and spread your communist propaganda…you know, the kind you learned while majoring in Russian and Soviet studies?
And what's this? Ms. Schiller, I thought people like you didn't like monopolies? So why then do you advocate for a coercive one? Oh that's right, it's not a monopoly when the STATE helps out. I forgot, sorry. I keep forgetting we're dealing with Statists….
One tends to be very deferential to the ones paying the bills.
…or don't you NPR people believe in reality?
Oh, wait…..
Now this is rich. A mush-headed, early 20's neophyte is giving tours of the false front areas of the soViEt UnIoN believing, of course, that all Soviet subjects lived that way.
Is next,…….. evening vear.
Very nice.
Oh, let me guess…public TV is now a "right" along with broadband internet, healthcare, collective bargaining rights, or whatever else these government parasites dream up.
Someone spam this ladies e-mail adress with the worst computer viruses, porno, and spam that you can muster.
I think taxpayers should pay for my HBO ! It's my 'right' !
You cannot get fired from a job for your views when taxpayer money is funding the organization. It's called the 1st Amendment.
adendum: Make that "fired for political views."
You mean welfare Statism? Anyone could tell you it won't work. And yet we just sit here and take it, day after day after day. Bread and circuses….
Didn't they already give away digital converter boxes on the taxpayer's dime? Of course it's your "Right"!
This crap boggles the mind.
Take NPR off the air. We don't need their Socialistic B.S! They're indoctrinating our children with their radical views!
This is the same NPR that had Nina Totenburg wishing to afflict Jesse Helms' grandkids with AIDS…
THAT'S RIGHT BOYS AND GIRLS… NINA TOTENBERG wished AIDS upon the grandkids of Jesse Helms..,.
Just like Biden, I call that a big F*ing Deal!
Here should be the new Dem Ad campaign:
You suck. We Rule. Even if you win elections, we will run away from the voice of the people, until we impose a new rule of law…
Let Soros and all the other filthy rich liberals pay for it, if it's so important. But no, they don't pay for these things, we do.
Of all the waste in government, PBS funding is one of the biggest. There is NO REASON whatsoever that the government should be funding a television station. This needs to be cut, cut now, cut 100%.
We Tax Payers are being abused by our Federal Government. I'm sure that there are many socialist Dems and even Soros who would love to pay to keep the NPR Socialist radical propaganda machine going.
I for one would love to see them taken off of the air because they are doing damage to our childrens minds with their Socialist indoctrination.
Replace NPR with a Constitution Network. Just a thought.
“The elimination of federal funding would be a significant blow to nearly 900 public radio stations that serve the needs of more than 38 million Americans with free over-the-air programming they can’t find anywhere else,” Ms. Schiller said.
Sorry woman, it ain't "free over-the-air programming" if it is on the tax payers dime. Another delusional socialist.
Defund them all — NPR and PBS. Let the enlightened socialists pass the hat amongst themselves to fund their own propaganda. Same with the NEA and their abortion clinics. No more socialism on everybody else's dime.
Actually, it's "over -the-air programming no other broadcaster wishes to waste spectrum on."
NPR is one of many program distribution services. They own no stations.
Juan Williams was an independent contractor, not an employee. He was not "fired"
So do you agree or disagree with the facts laid out to you..?
So, as I asked the last troll who came by here, Are you defending an organization that wished AIDS upon someone's grandchildren?
Jesse Helm's grand children, to be exact.
Please… Tell us that you are so blind as to agree with the sh*t that they spout…
I'm hoping the release of "Atlas Shrugged Part One" on April 15th will open even more eyes to the absurdity and irrationality of statism. The clip I saw was very good. Read the book 40 years ago. Over 11 million copies sold. So someone's paying attention.
If we do it right, our kids in 2025 will be smater than the kids of 2005…
Theres also no reason that "Tesla Motors" should get 450 million/ year from the govt. Yeah, they make a badass electric supercar, but if it ain't profitable without gov't subsidies, we're not ready for that tech yet…
Any Gov't Employee that refers to any Gov't Program as "Free" deserves a kick in the hindquarters. As do any members of the MSM. Nothing is free in this world. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
We, the people, should not give this woman or NPR one red cent. It does not represent the average American and is determined to support the liberals agenda.
Sooo, where is their "diversity"? Their collective bargaining rights? Their union scale wages? Hmmmm…
The last time I checked, you can't "watch" NPR.
Name one broadcast on NPR that is leftist propaganda. Do you know that just as many conservatives listen to NPR as liberals?
Funny thing is, there's tons of advertising in public radio and tv. They have "sponsors" who get plugs at the beginning and ending of their programs. They solicit donations during funding drives, which interrupt their regular program schedules. The idea that their means of funding is more virtuous than those of commercial broadcasters is pretty lame.
You can't tell the different between PBS and HBO?
Have you ever actually listened to NPR? They don't swing left, this is a fact backed up by statistics. Educate yourself.
So, they have to operate like the other radio stations, big deal.
I wouldn't give them one red cent….I actually consider that to be illegal, but am not an attorney.
The subsidy that NPR recieves is, as George Will has said, a rounding error on the GM bailout. I'm afraid that if Republicans focus too much on small cuts that become ideological flashpoints, while resisting cuts across the board (e.g., defense, entitlements), we will see enthusiams for deficit reduction channelled into political warfare.
No one "needs" NPR. No country should have a taxpayer funded propaganda network. The country is covered by a suffcient multiple private metwork that the government has no business in the business anymore.
Guidelines for operation, frequency occupation and otherwise "hands off" and "back off".
Pay attention to Canada's CBC. A lefty-infested taxpayer sinkhole that spews anti-conservatism and Viva Leftardo most of the time and thinks itself so above everything it ignores lawful FOI requests.
Did you forget the sarcasm tags or do you really believe that? So, using that very same statistical model, would you agree that Fox is balanced or leans right?
Not being a member of the black turtleneck, nouveau beatnik crowd, you understand. I did used to like to watch the "happy trees, happy sky painting guy" though……
Taxpayer funding? Computer says no.
As a former Public Radio employee (and, I think, the token staff conservative,) who was laid off when state funding was cut, I may be enjoying this just a bit too much, but I say defund 'em. They have at least four revenue streams: listener contributions (memberships), federal and sometime state funding, grants out the wazoo, and underwriting.
And because of underwriting, it always makes me laugh when they claim to be non-commercial. They have sales staffs, just like commercial radio, except they don't call it that. Underwriters' announcements are just the same as commercials, without the call to action (they can't promote a specific event, and there cannot be a call to action within the announcement) other than that, they're commercials.
At a time when commercial radio is struggling, public radio stations always have the best of everything: studios, equipment, and grants to establish multi-casting facilities and to develop HD radio (which, so far, is about as successful as stereo AM was back about 25 years ago. Remember it? Didn't think so).
So this whining from NPR's CEO is laughable. When I was let go, it at least cleared my conscience about working on the wrong side of the street, but my 3 weeks paid vacation, my incredible health care benefits, and my 401 K are sorely missed. I'm back in commercial radio now, making half what I was then, and cannot afford health insurance.
NPR? Screw 'em. How's THAT for schadenfreude?
You're probably right, AJoe, but it sure would be psychologically satisfying…
That's exactly what we're saying, Heraclitus: No.
we will see enthusiams for deficit reduction channelled into political warfare.
That is going to happen, regardless. While I agree that the subsidy is not gigantic, it would seem that the big wigs at NPR seem to think cutting it would be seriously consequential.
Sorry, Warglory, yes they do. Just spend some time in a public radio newsroom sometime, and you'll be immersed in the leftist mindset. Further, it's not so much what they say on NPR, it's what they leave out. And notice, most of the time when a vox populi sort of story is presented, they go out of their way to present the dumbest-sounding rubes they can find to represent the "conservative" viewpoint. If you really believe they don't swing left, you're not really paying attention.
That's a technicality. Juan Williams spent the majority of his time working for NPR, whether he was an employee or not. He visited affiliate stations frequently, on behalf of NPR… something usually done by actual on-the-payroll employees. I know this: I met him twice, at two of the NPR affiliates for which I (unfortunately) worked. So your point is irrelevant.
If NPR is doing so well, it doesn't need taxpayer dollars. Cut it.
Back in the eighties The Pathetic Begging Stations went to Congress for funds and it was revealed that they had a extreemly hefty bank account so Congress cut some of their funding.
Make her go away.
Argue all you want lady—- NO MORE MONEY from WE the PEOPLE!
I have never and do not know anybody that listens to public radio, most people either listen to an Oldies Station, Country Music Stations or Conservative Talk Radio. if NPR ever went off the air I don't know anybody that would notice.
No doubt…I'd have to change my underwear if it happened.
On their side, sure. But how much energy should Republicans put into it? Don't get me wrong, if I had a kill switch I'd press it in an instant.
Ms. Schiller, NPR will have to take its punishment for dabbling in the realms of politics. If you wish to be held in the public trust you can never take sides on political issues and parties. Once you do you have forfeit your right to public money.
By the way, NPR is not 'free' we pay for it with our donations and tax dollars. You do get a salary don't you? I am sure that you wouldn't mind working for no pay at all so that at least part of NPR could be free. Why not? if it is that important to you.
And you get that statistic from, exactly, where?
Let them both die, NPR and the Pathetic Begging Stations, they have been showing re-runs of Are You Being Served for at least forty years, if you skip by a PBS station and you see Roy Orbison you can bet it's Pledge Week that lasts about twelve days.
Hey, we have a great country where people have the ability to lobby government for all kinds of things.
Part of living in this great country is the ability to see folks lobby out in the open. One of the best parts is seeing them hear the following word in response to their request for taxpayers' money.
NO!
Frankly there should be a school requirement to read and be tested on the Constitution at least yearly in our schools and NOT the barry version.
If you're doing so well then save us the money and spar us the BS and go do it on your own. Take those stupid self serving awards given to you by your friends and go out on your own. Government Radio in the USA sounds too much like Cuba, Venezuela, Libya, USSR, China and all the other Big Brother prison camps. NPR is UN-AMERICAN. GET OUT OF OUR POCKETBOOKS AND GO DO IT YOURSELF.
Gentle Readers,
Dear leadstate,
I quite agree! Ms. Schillers comment is dubious, at best. PBS can broadcast over the Internet and via Digital and Satellite systems. The notion that without local radio OTA broadcast access certain programming wouldn't be available really doesn't withstand scrutiny. There is also local CATV.
A better explaination is that local audiences simply don't subscribe, even if the service is underwritten and provided free of charge.
Offer programming people prefer, and as you indicated, underwriters will come forward, either via broadcast, internet or digitally. Mr. Breitbart could help them set up an internet portal for their programming. ( For a reasonable fee, of course! )
Kindest Regards,
John Lepant Brighton CO
NPR Purses excellence. Wow why is Juan Williams unemployed. Especially with the joke of a reason they gave for firing him let alone how they fired him.
It's quite obvious they are a racist organization that only cares about the promoting the left's agenda very badly. You deserve a zero for your organization lady because you're making it look bad.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
READ THIS: I/m speaking to the converted here, but the people on this list have to write to their representatives demanding a defunding of NPR, Pacifica and PBS. Despite two statutes calling for objectivity both of these entities in their choice of programming, their presentation of news and their running story line, present a continued favoratism toward Democrat candidates and liberal causes, and against Republican candidates and conservative causes. When threatened with loss of federal funding these entities take to the public airwaves asking their viewers and listeners to write to representatives demanding more funding.
There is no reason to fund partisan media organizations like Pacifica, NPR and PBS – and that's what they are – with taxpayer dollars. they shouldn't even get a license, but since eliminating them is politically impossible, the LEAST that should be done is get rid of tax payer funding. Look at the background of this woman – all of the liberal bona fides.
So, I reiterate, write, speak, call and demand defunding. Republicans have to show a spine on this – there is simply no reason that taxpayers should be handed a bill for partisan funding. Have you ever listened to Pacifica? And remember that NPR 'journalists' would face off on the liberal side with conservative columnists?? There is NO credible argument to the effect that these entities aren't partisan – none. Show some gumption Republicans!
…since the organizations are partisan, despite statutory requirements for objectivity – and they have shown only increased partisanship in recent years in flagrant disregard of statutory requirements. Would you feel that they are entitled to continued funding of the bias was the other way? Of course not.
It's all one sided partisanship, despite statutory requirements for objectivity – in flagrant disregard of statutory requirements. And they use the public airwaves to demand more funding, which is an inherent conflict of interest. No credible argument exists that the people are objective – NONE.
Thirty eight million Americans? There are over 300 million Americans in the U.S. That 38 million represents barely 10% of the population. Conservative radio stations have to make it on their own merit. I would suggest that NPR and similar far left radical stations try it for awhile. You will go the way of Air America. And good riddance to you. Juan Williams was one of a bare few sane liberals. You made a huge mistake getting rid of him. You deserve your inevitable demise.
The thing is subsidies are WRONG here – Pacifica, NPR and PBS are partisan organizations, operating in flagrant disregard to two statutory objectivity requirements. Money has nothing to do with it. They elected to present one sided programming, despite a confirmatory statute requiring objectivity in adopted by Congress and signed by the President in 2000. They use the public airwaves to demand more funding – despite prohibitions on doing so. this is an out of control tax payer subsidized media organization dedicated to electing Democrats and defeating Republicans, and promoting leftist causes. And that was the reason it was formed – the other programming is a cover. They should have been defunded and their licenses taken away years ago. And they are not necessary – other organizations do the same thing, albeit with commercials.
In short, Democrats are not entitled to tax payer subsidized media programming, plain and simple. The amount of money involved is irrelevant.
Flig – since you were there what was their view on bias? Do they seriously believe that they present objective, unbiased programming? You would have to be a moron to think that, no offense – even the few liberal friends I have candidly admit that NPR is biased (as for Pacifica – I really don't understand how it gets funded).
But what is the view on the inside???
Yeah, I left out Time, Newsweek, Daily Kos, Politico, Air America and others because I didn't think they were "over the air programming," but you're absolutely right.
Dear Ms, Schiller, we the public don't want to pay for your leftist propaganda anymore.
Suggestion: Look for funding from George Soros, Michale Moore, or Al Gore (Barf).
Of course a "Tax Eater" will argue for more taxes to eat. I say let Elmo hire himself out to ads to support himself.
Oh Yeah, I gaffed. I was thinking PBS. Good thing I am not a politician running for office. I would be shredded by liberal journalists of all the media types. Oh well. I am awake now. Thanks for letting me know.
Commie liberal Media = NPR+PBS+ABC+CBS+NBC+Most newspapers.
"The elimination of federal funding would be a significant blow to nearly 900 public radio stations that serve the needs of more than 38 million Americans with free over-the-air programming they can’t find anywhere else."
Should have thought about that before pushing a liberal agenda. The reason people can't find it anywhere else is because every time liberal dogma has made it to the airwaves, it gets cancelled due to low ratings and lack of interest. It's called "there is no demand for our business model."
I like PBS documentaries and I like some of the music programming on KCRW in L.A. but they will survive. They are CONSTANTLY on t.v. or the radio begging regular viewers for money in their funding drives. If people want this stuff, they can pay.
And then there's always George Soros or Matt Damon or someone like that. They can pay for it.
Yes…
Officially, NPR has quite a strict code of ethics about news reporting and objectivity. And, to be fair, one of the news directors for whom I worked, although she was a liberal, was scrupulously fair about objectivity. But the reality is that "objective," to NPR means "objective from the progressive viewpoint." That the liberal view is correct, and that the conservative view is stupid and evil is an article of faith. I think that many NPR reporters actually think that they ARE being objective. But what that means is "We all agree that we are correct in our thinking. Therefore, everyone else is wrong, and not deserving of respect on a level playing field."
In some newsrooms, they are very concerned about at least the appearance of impartiality. But I worked at one NPR station where one of the reporters (when not on assignment) wore an Obama T-shirt to work. On Election Day 2008, one of the staffers I liked very much went around high-fiving everyone and talking about what a glorious day it was. She was not aware of my conservatism, so when she came to my desk, I explained that I could not share her enthusiasm. She was very disappointed in me. Her whole demeanor said, "You seemed like such a nice, intelligent guy, I thought you were enlightened… one of us. But, well, I guess I was wrong about you." After that, she never greeted me quite as warmly.
If you want to get a glimpse of this NPR (and, actually, the rest of the MSM newsroom mindset) read Bernie Goldberg's book "Bias." It's a few years old, and I think since it was written, a lot of the veneer of objectivity at CBS, ABC, and NBC has been dropped, but it'll give you a good idea of the way they think
"Separation of press and state." This should be as obvious as "separation of church and state."
Gentle Readers,
Dear Provasek,
Correct you are, Sir! Public Stations are locally owned and managed.
BULLSEYE! You hit it Dead Center!
Would you like;
- a Kewpie Doll, or
- a Cigar!
Sincerely,
Thank you, Sir!
John Lepant
The electronic spectrum is a public resource, owned by the people. Commercial broadcasters pay nothing to use the airwaves, except modest application fees, and make $100 billion in annual revenues. Since Reagan eliminated the Fairness Doctrine, broadcasters were free to operate stations like the ABC radio network's Limbaugh/Hannity/Levin 9 hour a day block of Republican propaganda. Exceptions were made for the "American ownership" rule to let Fox News (Australian and Saudi) gain a foothold in the US.
Conservatives have made a name for themselves railing against things like PBS and NPR since the Nixon years. Only the Republicans call letting more voices be heard "censorship." The Republican budget looks to cut a few million dollars of tax money that goes back to community owned radio and TV stations that are not beholden to corporations…after demanding a SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION DOLLAR TAX BREAK FOR THE RICH, and they’re trying to pretend they’re the party of “responsible government”.
Excellent selection.
It is assumed that perhaps 10% of our fellow citizens regularly watch/listen to "public" broadcasting. It says something about their mentality that they expect the other 90% of us to pay for their enjoyment.
I tried several variations of R_Danneskjold for an ID name when I first signed up, but none that were satisfactory worked. I also found it hilarious when reading A. S. the first time that his name seems a play on Danegeld…
For the curious…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danegeld
Not the best source, but adequate to the task at hand…
Ha! I wasn't aware of that. Makes me wonder if D'Anconia is based on anything….
A rough guess would be "Thee of coin" or "made of money"… Conia is Italian for "coin, mint, strike"…
Add in " D' " with "An" for D'Anconia and ??? Just a guess… Whadya think there, Aristotle?
Frikkin' genius, that woman was…
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If it means (to) coin, mint or strike, wouldn't something like 'thee of creation' or 'thee who creates [wealth, money]' be more accurate?
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