Nat'l Petroleum Radio slighting Clinton all day. Nat'l PARTISAN Radio.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

My tolerance for BC is very low in absolute terms.

But everytime NPR mentioned the Clinton Library ceremony they played short audio of George H. W Bush quipping but never Clinton himself even though he gave his usually articulate "building bridges" speech.

One time they even mentioned Monica and nothing else about his presidency.

NPR is facing more budget cuts. I like some arts programming like Prairie Home Companion and This American Life but the news is almost Faux-like.

on edit:
I noticed that Merck (the Vioxx drug scandal)is running ads on NPR a lot lately.

I also found Fairness and Accuracy In Media 6/04 analysis of how conservative they are here-
http://www.fair.org/extra/0405/npr-study.html

[autorank]

1. During Pledge Week: Give them NOTHING! At other times, nothing

Corporate America controls the media and we get manufactured news.
Corporate America now controls the voting machines and we get manufactured elections.

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

[VivaKerry]

4. I mean, geeze, NPR is underwritten by walmart and visa

what else does a person NEED to know!

[autorank]

5. Thanks. I f'ing hate Wal-Mart!

I just hate them because they play that crappy music between news that makes me want to kick out my car windows; also due to their craven groveling. Were I president, I mean dictator, one my minor pleasures would be to pull NPR and PBS funding.

[benevolent dictator]

6. Wal-Mart is evil

I wish there was a way for us to get NPR to stop taking money from Wal-Mart. I always wonder if those people who read the commercials about how "Wal-Mart provides jobs and opportunities" realize how bad Wal-Mart is. I also wonder if the people reading those commercials as if they were news ever find it ironic that they read them right after they talk about how NPR is "commercial free."

http://boycottwalmart.meetup.com

[VivaKerry]

2. I feel bad not contributing to 'public radio'

because it is local programming and wonderful, until NPR broadcasts come through. I can't support NPR, and therefore cannot support local public radio. My greatest pet peeve these days is when I hear people who think that NPR is all about the leftist, truthful view of things, and it is nothing better (perhaps worse) than ABC, FOX, NBC. Problem is, it still sounds like it did in 1982... all warm and fuzzy and progressive. Yet they are slopping the same crap as the network for-profit stations. I refuse.

[glitch]

3. Support the shows you like directly - buy their recordings etc.

Do not support the central programming at corporate.
And this goes for PBS too.

[AmericanErrorist]

7. I have sinned -- for a reason

MPR is giving away a year's subscribtion of Newsweek to anyone who gives anything. I only gave $5, which was probably half-used in the letter telling me my credit-card didn't work, and the other half will be lost processing my Newsweek subcription. Heck, my gift may even cost MPR a buck or two.