Shut off NPR funding?

[phrodeau]

Ummm... not really.

That was their initial comment. But that figure is limited to direct monies received from public sources. It does not include the zillions received by way of local affiliate stations' kick back to them nor the hardware (towers, etc.) grants received by participating radio stations. It's millions and millions, not just the 2% they were originally claiming.

In any event, the left needs to compete with everybody else for the airwaves. No longer should they receive taxpayer funding to advocate the party line. This isn't the 1960s where CPB was arguably necessary for news and information to reach many parts of America. There are more than enough outlets for that material and the CPB should be defunded.

In essence, without that being the case, it can be argued that Juan Williams was fired by the Government because his feelings about things are outside officially approved governmental doctrine. See how that sort of thing can be said and understood by people? Not good.

So it's just like the public option for healthcare insurance, something the country truly needs and which should happen immediately. Then once it's no longer needed, we can get rid of it.

After all, the media has done nothing but grow alongside the CPB's competition.

 

[Karen Kraft]

So it's just like the public option for healthcare insurance, something the country truly needs and which should happen immediately. Then once it's no longer needed, we can get rid of it.

No, that's like saying that the government agency in charge of inspecting buggy whips should be funded even after the horseless carriage has supplanted the need for buggy whips.

Indeed, why not continue to have the Office of Price Administration still funded to issue ration stamps for meat? Why,the OPA could still make their stamps, coupons, tokens, certificates, and checks, and just keep them in a large warehouse in Prince George's County...

 

[cebalrai]

Ummm... not really.

That was their initial comment. But that figure is limited to direct monies received from public sources. It does not include the zillions received by way of local affiliate stations' kick back to them nor the hardware (towers, etc.) grants received by participating radio stations. It's millions and millions, not just the 2% they were originally claiming.

In any event, the left needs to compete with everybody else for the airwaves. No longer should they receive taxpayer funding to advocate the party line. This isn't the 1960s where CPB was arguably necessary for news and information to reach many parts of America. There are more than enough outlets for that material and the CPB should be defunded.

In essence, without that being the case, it can be argued that Juan Williams was fired by the Government because his feelings about things are outside officially approved governmental doctrine. See how that sort of thing can be said and understood by people? Not good.

It's a shame that only one of Juan's lines is being played over and over. The rest of what he had to say was really meaningful and put that Muslim line in context. People such as Kraft are too dense and bigoted to benefit from what he had to say however.

 

[cebalrai]

So it's just like the public option for healthcare insurance, something the country truly needs and which should happen immediately. Then once it's no longer needed, we can get rid of it.

After all, the media has done nothing but grow alongside the CPB's competition.

The public option is the next step!

 

[mercury14]

The cool thing is the right-wing view on things like this: If a media outlet isn't expressly conservative, it's liberal crap.

 

[off2bed]

The cool thing is the right-wing view on things like this: If a media outlet isn't expressly conservative, it's liberal crap.

The idea of a non-biased source of news has always been a myth.

 

[mercury14]

The idea of a non-biased source of news has always been a myth.

Nothing is perfectly unbiased. But there's a difference between fair, relatively balanced journalism and "Fair and Balanced" Fox news which literally recruits for conservative political rallies on their news program.