Is NPR Worth the Cost? »
Posted By Shana4Liberty 9 months, 4 weeks ago in NewsThroughout the country, every large town over 100,000 people seems to have a common element: a local branch of National Public Radio. In all, the partially publicly funded organization has 797 public radio stations that it syndicates to.
Public broadcasting has a place in Western society. Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia all boast creative and new publicly backed media enterprises. In the United Kingdom, the BBC provides all sorts of great programming, from adaptations of Jane Austen novels to modern day radio drama. Unlike its counterparts, however, it’s questionable whether NPR is providing much groundbreaking or innovative.
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GehlLady9 months, 4 weeks ago
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I'm lucky to live in an area that has a great community radio station that streams online, wmnf.org, but they pull some of their programming from NPR. Other places I've lived, NPR was all there was as a counterpoint to Clearchannel type programming. I'd hate to see it go.
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antibrainwasher9 months, 4 weeks ago
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Clearchannel, because a right wing gay bashing billionaire zionist evangelical Texas bigot is what we need for objectivity in news broadcasts....wait, he sold it to an even bigger poligimist right wing tool....
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Mitt Romney's VC Firm to Buy Clear Channel
Posted by Chris Brunner at December 14, 2007 10:25 AM
What would it cost to buy the support of just about every nationally syndicated neocon talk show host in America? About $19.5 billion, which is what Mitt Romney's private equity firm, Bain Capital, and Thomas H. Lee Partners have agreed to pay in a leveraged buyout agreement with Clear Channel Communications, the largest radio station owner in the country. This is part of a negotiation that has been pending for over a year.
Clear Channel owns more than 1,100 full-power AM, FM, and shortwave radio stations, twelve radio channels on XM Satellite Radio, and more than 30 television stations in the United States. Premiere Radio Networks, which is the largest syndication company in the United States, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Clear Channel and is home to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and many others. Sean Hannity recently signed a large multi-market contract with Clear Channel, as well.
So, lets kill off the only public broadcasting non profit there is, we don't need that commie crap.
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Dionys9 months, 4 weeks ago
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""Unlike its counterparts, however, it’s questionable whether NPR is providing much groundbreaking or innovative."
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Seriously? Have you ever listened to NPR? There's plenty of investigative reporting and interviews you wouldn't hear elsewhere. Just because they've moved away from Jane Austen serial plays doesn't mean they're not innovative. -
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gamahuche9 months, 4 weeks ago
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I've seldom listened to Radio that wasn't "public"except accidentally, like eating somewhere where there was a radio on..
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The more public radio the better - but with the internet the sky's the limit.
NPR was never a big part of my life - mainly I liked to be very quiet indoors,especially NYC time. Then I was involved in reading to my daughter at night and that pretty much put me in the land of Nod anyway..
BBC World Service news at 10 is my staple and for a number of years I never failed to listen to it unless travellling away from home, perhap. Now with the computer any time, virtually any place but I still most like to be snug in bed though with current work-schedule that happens less and less, sigh.. -
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Pecossam9 months, 4 weeks ago
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Shana4Liberty,
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NPR is a Leftist propaganda mill and I believe it, like ALL media, including PBS, should stand or fall depending on its ability to raise funds through advertising. NPR and PBS, subsidized by Uncle Sam, remind one of Airhead America, which cannot compete in the private market without being subsidized by George Soros.
I would love to hear the following Public Service Announcement during the required station break one day: "NPR, PBS, and Airhead America are brought to you by Bankrupts "R" Us Media Services, where 'Our Leftist Ideas Are As Empty As Our Bank Accounts'."-
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antibrainwasher9 months, 4 weeks ago
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To read the moron right wing brainwashed commentary, devoid of anything of substance other than slander and Drug Limpbaugh talking points, is like a neon sign why we should have a nonprofit news national level media outlet, not owned and operated by some coward right wing troll, like the kind that possum head fills the vacuous space between his ears with.
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You get your news and perspective from a drug addicted fat coward closet log cabin gay man, 5 times divorced for not being able to consumate his marriage, because he's gayer than a pink leather pinata, sporting a receptive anal sex bleeding cyst, that he used to get out of vietnam, like the draft dodging GWB and coward draft dodging shotgun Dick.
Good for you, but to read how you hope nothing survives but propanda from the neocon mogals who own everything, is to realize just how stupid the right wing is and why they'll never win another election.
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jdhatl9 months, 4 weeks ago
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NPR is here to stay. get used to it right wing nut jobs. You have your talk radio and fox news, we have NPR. If it survived the Bush era, it isn't going anywhere. It's underfunded as it is and laying off thousands, but it's not going away. The 2008 election gives new meaning to phrase "Sore-Loserman"
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antibrainwasher9 months, 4 weeks ago
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The chairman of NPR was appointed by Bush, and was the former chair of the repugnicon party.
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He instituted a fairness doctrine on NPR, forcing the inclusion of lying right wing neocon tools to have as much say as objective journalists. -
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BB649 months, 4 weeks ago
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Wow, did your daddy play whoop the baby and forget to catch you regularly? Fox and conservative talk radio is commercial. That means that they have to show a profit by selling advertising time. High ratings, high profits. Low ratings, no profits. NPR is not commercial. Over the years the programming progressively has gone liberal. In fact we could call it NEO-LIBERAL or in Wisconsin we call it Fascist Liberal. If you don't agree with them you never get on the air. While the same can be said of the conservative stations, my tax money isn't used to fund them. Public radio should have times for conservatives just like they have for liberals. If not, it shouldn't receive my funding.
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BB649 months, 4 weeks ago
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Actually commercial stations pay great sums of money in the form of licenses. Then if they're profitable they pay more. With the media as it is today, NPR no longer is needed. I think it's time for NPR and PBS to pay for themselves or die.
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aceofspades19 months, 4 weeks ago
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Recent surveys (don't ask me to cite the source, I don't remember, but I'm sure you can Google them) have determined that NPR actually broadcasts MORE conservative commentaries than liberal ones.
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But that aside, I would hate to lose those hotbeds of communist propaganda like Click & Clack , What Do You Know, The Prairie Home Companion & the classical music programs & so much more that is not broadcast on commercial radio because their content does not appeal to neanderthals like BB64.-
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BB649 months, 4 weeks ago
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Nice comments, thanks for the attacks. I guess that's the only way libs can fight.
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As to the shows you're listing, why can't they be on commercial stations. I've listened to Click & Clack. While often times they're wrong, I enjoyed the banter. The other shows are not on our NPR affiliates. They play western and really bad jazz once in a while. No classical and nothing even remotely conservative. Perhaps not all NPR affiliates are the same. In Wisconsin, our public programs are owned by the DNC. -
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anneliv2349 months, 4 weeks ago
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Actually, the issue of culture is a good one and was originally NPRs mandate. Personally, I think that NPR should get out of the news business and expand its cultural programming. This is an area that does serve society at large and as such might justify taxpayer dollars. The issue of NPR news is a thorny one. Yes, right now it is dominated by a progressive agenda, however, in the future that may change. Regardless of whether you are left or right leaning do we really want a government funded entity providing us our news? I would hesitate to throw the baby out with the bathwater so would say rather than close it, let's refocus the netword on providing those kinds of programming that enhance quality of life for all of us without agenda.
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odf599 months, 4 weeks ago
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I listen to NPR on my local affiliate, KGB 101.9. I like to hear what the enemy is saying and thinking. They at NPR glorify foreign, liberal and leftist views, while denigrating conservative, rightist and American views. I use NPR as a tool to teach my children and others how to recognize and counter the style and techniques of the left.
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Perhaps they could balance "All Things Considered" with a little honest reporting.-
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BB649 months, 4 weeks ago
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That will never happen. Liberals never live in the world of truth. They still think communism or Marxism is a great thing. That Castro was simply misunderstood. They're anti Bush so that makes them pro-Saddam and pro-terror. They say they support the troops. By trying to film their coffins from being removed from the plane. They support free speech as long as it parrots the same line they support. If it doesn't, God help you. They'll accuse you of hate speech or incest or something. Look at what they did to the Palin family. Just another reason NPR should be a private taxable political party machine.
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laurenraine9 months, 4 weeks ago
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With this article I truly want to get the hell off of AOL. At a time when, as journalist Bill Moyer has pointed out, huge media groups (like AOL) have gobbled up independent media (the statistics are very frightening), they want to consolidate further by eliminating NPR.
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This reactionary and untrue article scares me, it feels like yet another step toward fascism and media control that has been developing for the past decade. -
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generic79 months, 4 weeks ago
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It is so interesting when I read all the comments, I noticed that sides are quickly chosen, no matter the issue. Folks are either divided by race or political party or whatever. I would really like to see us deal with the issues in an honest and open way so that we could begin to solve some of the many problems that we face as a country. Calling someone a right wing wacko or a liberal commi is not going to get us anywere. I like NPR. I find many of there programs informative and creative.
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aceofspades19 months, 4 weeks ago
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Just a little more info on NPR - the Federal government only provides 2% of it's funding - over 25% is corporate (capitalist ) funding
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Furthermore here is a little cut & paste from Wikipedia documenting my prior statement that NPR actually has a greater conservative voice than liberal --
In a December 2005 column run by NPR ombudsman and former Vice President Jeffrey Dvorkin denied allegations that NPR relies heavily on conservative think-tanks.[19] In his column, Dvorkin listed the number of times NPR had cited experts from conservative and liberal think tanks in the previous year. However, according to MediaMatters, a progressive media group, the numbers he reported indicate an overwhelmingly conservative bias. His own tally showed that 63% of NPR experts from think tanks came from right-leaning organizations while only 37% came from left-leaning organizations.[20]
In 2003, some critics accused NPR of being supportive of the invasion of Iraq.[21][22]-
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BB649 months, 4 weeks ago
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Actually that's not a total cost. NPR has no licensing fees or other government costs associated with them. Wiki isn't a reliable source when it comes to anything liberal.
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Tell you what, if that is the case then they don't need my 2%. Spin them off. No more tax exempt status. Let's see how long they last.
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rightofrush9 months, 4 weeks ago
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The number of stary-eyed-one-worlder Obamaniacs on this site need the balance of a few more clear-eyed paleocons. George Soros, a financial backer of NPR and Air America, is not a friend of the United States. As a protege of Soros, Zero is not a harbringer of universal peace and ponies for everyone. Using his image of a model presidency, a mix of paleo-fascist Lincoln and neo-fascist FDR, he will make you yearn for a reincarnation of a different Barry, Barry Goldwater.
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