Boycott NPR

[5X]

All Things Considered just played several minutes
of a cheney speech. No comment except to say it was
from a speech yesterday. No followup or equal time.

[endnote]

1. Wel and today they had an hour with

Dick Armey... WTF? He adulated Hastert as a smart, solid conservative (uh ? the same guy who said a vote for Kerry is a vote for Osaman ?)... Something is wrong with NPR, I'm telling you...

[cheezus]

2. provide me with a 6-month breakdown of coverage

i'll decide based on that.

[amber dog democrat]

3. Cheney did no damage. He was an embarrassment to the GOP as well.

Just more lies and talking points for his ditto minions.

[liberal_in_GA]

I think they have a pledge drive(s) coming up

DUers should call and say they're not donating because of their increasingly biased coverage.

[Wickerman]

4. They have been playing excerpts of each

candidate. They started with George, Have done a Kerry, next will be Edwards.

They started it off with a note saying so, and on my station they did followup. Perhaps your local rode over the top of the disclaimer, but they are giving each of the 4 men equal time.

[The Straight Story]

5. Personally

Not gonna drag npr into the politics of this election. They may have some biased moments (on both sides of the political fence) but overall they have done a good job covering issues around the globe better than the mainstream crappy press.

The right thinks they are left, the left sees them as being on the right, to me that says maybe they are just doing their jobs.I don't want to boycott them to make them my parrot. If they disagree with my view on something I may write and explain an alternative viewpoint and point them to resources which discuss those views.

NPR - Not Perfect Radio, but over the years damn better than clear channel.

If we think they are drifting, elucidate why to them. I don't want them to lose their objective covering of things (but then, few things are ever objective from anyone).

(edited because I can't spell worth a damn when I drink)

[Career Prole]

6. Well said. n/t

[Iris]

12. Amen!

I don't understand why people who lean left thing public radio is "our" radio because the right wingers have talk radio.

Personally, I'm just happy to have a place to go to hear about culture and the arts. If I get a political education at the same time, that's all the better!

[LTR]

16. Well put

NPR is not the enemy. They are as close to fair and unbiased as can be.

And don't drink and post. I've tried it, and started a few flame wars as a result.

[no name no slogan]

7. How about some context?

I heard the speech, and they presented it as part of a continuing series on speeches from the campaigns. They've also done this with Kerry and Edwards speeches, too.

If you really want to get mad, ask why they're not playing speeches by the Green or Libertarian candidates.

This is a non-issue.

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. This is all just "amusing" to the little ladies and gents at NPR

One would have to assume that the NPR staff are personally supported by trust funds, Cokie for example, so that none of this really matters one way or the other.

[MoonRiver]

9. They were outed as rightwing hacks a long time ago. I never listen.

Air America has my ear.

[The Straight Story]

11. right wing hacks? To me they were the difference

When I was a security guard in my younger days I started to listen to talk radio (aka news radio to me) instead of music. NPR was one of the stations I listened to. I leaned a lot to the right of many issues, to the left on others.

NPR kept me up on things no one else seemed to ever talk about. And they did it in a way that made me think about the issue. They did not cater to my view.

Over the last two years I picked up listening to them when I had the chance, and was damn glad to get a breath of fresh air. They showed me both sides of things. Often the left and the right can become so locked into their mode of thinking that we (they) cannot see outside our box of idealism. Much like many have said the religious do.

I like seeing all sides, and over the times I have listened to them I have seen both. I don't see that elsewhere.

[jrthin]

10. I've stopped listening

since 2000. People should also stop giving them money because they've been nothing but whores for the repug. Why list to them when one has AAR or Pacifica.

[The Straight Story]

14. Spoken like a true believer

muslims, christians, hindus, et al like to surround themselves with things which reflect their views and thoughts.

Personally I like to hear the words of others who do not agree with me, to keep an open mind. I have been a fundamentalist, atheist, agnostic, buddhist, and new ager. I found myself finally as a christian.

Overall, input is needed from many sources and views lest we let our progressive ideals become stale. I listened to rush around the same time I listened to anderle (on an osu station, a wonderful liberal media guy).

I don't see NPR as the PBS rush limbaugh. They cover a lot of issues, and if we disagree lets discuss why we do so on each story each day - eventually they might see it and it could have an impact in the overall coverage. If you have stopped listening, how do you know what they are saying? Listen, learn, email, discuss, post their stories from the day here.

Maybe what some might be thinking is - they are not far enough left so they must be right.

[jrthin]

15. Excuzzze me! I 'm not a

true believer anything. You have no idea what I believe or how strongly by belief on anything. That said, I don't and won't listen to NPR, so shoot me.

[The Straight Story]

17. Not a true believer?

What does that mean? In anything? How can you believe in nothing? You must have some beliefs - you're on DU and not FR.

I think it is fine that you don't listen to npr, cool with me. I am not sure as to why. I am on the left, and I find them to be more on the left than the right. But I don't sit around all day deciding which way their take on things go.

They have a view, they present information, I evaluate on my own and research more. I see NPR as open source whereas I see rush as MicroSoft :)

And I apologize if my post offended you, was not my intent and did not mean to seem smarmy. NPR has been there over the years as a counter voice to the right wing nut bags, and I appreciate their work. They are not perfect, but I damn well like them and their insights.

[Iris]

18. "I don't see NPR as the PBS rush limbaugh."

Nor should you. Public means everyone and that means conservatives and moderates as well as liberals.

If someone wants an alternative to Rush Limbaugh, there's Air America and Pacifica Radio, but to think those 2 formats are fair and balanced because you agree with them is as naive as folks who get all their news from FOX News.

[RichardRay]

13. And yesterday morning

they had a long segment on healthcare that highlighted Kerry's positions and how poorly Bush had done historically on the issue. Then they had a segment on how little litigation has to do with the cost of health care and how much more could be done to lower drug costs by approving reimportation and how bogus Dubya's position on the subject is.

I didn't notice a single post yesterday saying that they'd done a good job.

I'll go along with the 'Not Perfect Radio' post above - they're still a lot better than the alternatives.

Also, please note that the fund drives are not for NPR, they're for your local public radio station. That station chooses which NPR programs they want to carry, as well as content from other producers. In my area we can get the station that originates from the very conservative (largely LDS) college in Rexburg, ID as well as the one that originates from the University of Wyoming. They have VERY different content. I contribute to the one from Laramie.

Richard Ray - Jackson Hole, WY

[Zero Gravitas]

19. Whore Williams this am

said that debates have had no effect on the polls... well maybe not in his GOP-colored glasses universe, but on this planet, Chimpy's pathetic performance in the 1st debate transformed the race and was worth at lest 6-8% gain for Kerry in the poles.

[arewenotdemo]

20. Hearing PNAC Kenneth Adelman

spin his sick fantasy on NPR awhile back did it for me.

I might as well have tuned in Lardass.