Free Republic Movie Reviewer on NPR - Bye NPR

[bluerum]

Goodbye NPR.

Its been nice knowing ye.

But its been a long road since I listened to your first broadcasts in Buffalo NY when I was in college. The ideals of those who started you have long since been abandoned. Your halls are now inhabited by the larval spawn of the corporate yuppies and gen x,y and z'ers.

Have a nice ride.

:cry:

on edit: sp.

[mistertrickster]

1. You mean the reviewer is "like" a FReep or he's a real FReep?

Sounds interesting so far, but inquiring minds want to know more . . .

[bluerum]

7. He was introduced as writer for the Free Republic. I gagged. eom

[no_more_rhyming]

20. Free Republic has writers? I thought

it was a message board?

[PATRICK]

22. At least spelling

is not an issue on the radio.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Gotta link?

I ask because, sometimes you see a URL that says freep-something, and it goes to the Detroit Free-Press, not that other site.

[acmejack]

3. Really, I doubt anyone at Free republic actually graduated from college!

[bluerum]

5. No link - heard him introduced as a writer for the Free Republic

on a movie review segment this morning. They may have something their web site - sorry.

[Broadslidin]

4. Pathetic Little Underfunded n.p.r., Bought Long Ago By The Corporations.

Independent of outside corporate interests, trustworthy?

Forget It.

[bluerum]

6. Yeah - well they will never get any more of my money.

[reelcobra]

8. Morgenstern wasn't much anyway

I listen to KCRW in Los Angeles and except for Elvis Mitchell, who is great, there isn't much in the form of movie reviews to pay attention to.

Look for this Bush bashing film in March of 2006. 2001 Maniacs trailer

Robert Englund plays a cannabilistic southern redneck named Mayor George W., and the townsfolk kill kids, African Americans, gays and Blue Staters as part of a yearly festival.

The film is huge in Europe and non existant here because Lions Gate is afraid of it.

Tell a friend.

[meganmonkey]

9. It was NEW Republic: LINK

NOT free republic.

Weekend Edition - Saturday, January 14, 2006 · Sheilah Kast talks to New Republic magazine's online film critic Christopher Orr about the decline of real romance in movies. Romantic comedies, once a Hollywood staple, are in particular decline.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5158024

[txindy]

13. That clears that up

It's not surprising that we cringe at the word 'Republic' these days, though. The Cabal is giving it a whole other meaning - and it's not a good one.

[hang a left]

10. Are you sure it wasn't New Republic???

[meganmonkey]

11. It was New Republic.

This is silly. Freepers don't get on NPR doing movie reviews, geez.

There are plenty of valid criticisms of NPR but this isn't it :shrug:

[bluerum]

12. Yes - New Republic - my mistake. I will ask mods to delete.

:dunce: :blush:

[AlCzervik]

15. also he was introduced as "the online editor" you know FR doesn't have one

of those.

[ruggerson]

16. Yes, why don't you do that?

[meganmonkey]

17. No worries

and a belated welcome to DU! :toast:

Just don't do it again or we will unleash the fury of Grovelbot on you! :P

[Poppyseedman]

14. Free Republic Movie Reviewer???

Free Republic has a movie reviewer. ???

I sometimes lurk there, never seen what you are talking about

[rhett o rick]

19. I tried lurking there but can't keep my mouth shut & get booted. nm

[Poppyseedman]

21. I signed up once and lasted all of 35 minutes

I just lurk now

[PATRICK]

23. That is an equal puzzle

Why a political magazine movie reviewer in the political turmoil of NPR? Sounds like it could be just as insidious. NPR did some great things with real interviews with people on the ground in a National GEO sort of way and other features AAR might do well to milk while ditching the pasteurizing machine. I never listen to it anymore.

And can AAR ever get its own newscast? I am so sick of our local "lefty" radio network spewing out the CNN crap every hour. The jolting contrast is no longer needed.

[GrumpyGreg]

18. Huh?

[davidinalameda]

24. locking

it's been brought to our attention that some of the info in this post is incorrect

thank you