NPR's Morning Edition did a story on Rep Allen West this morning

[FSogol]

where he was treated like a moderate. No mentions of his military discharge, potential war crimes, or goofball Sharia law conspiracies. He was treated like a sane voice on the debt ceiling debate. I plan on citing this story as the reason I won't be donating to NPR this Fall.

The link is here, but I don't advise listening unless you are trying to purge your system and raise your blood pressure.
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=138774826&m=138774807
:puke:

[Supersedeas]

1. NPR stopped getting my donations as a result of the Anne Garrells' reports

from Iraq -- NPR did its share to carry the War Propoganda to the public at the behest of the Bush Administration.

[qb]

2. My opinion of NPR soured during their coverage of Clinton's BJ, and the Speaking of Faith

piece on "A Christian Justification for the Invasion of Iraq" and the way they promote their corporate donors were the final nails in the coffin.
:puke:NPR

[gauguin57]

3. Most of the news outlets I admire make mistakes now and then, or do something to piss me off.

But I'd never stop donating to public radio and TV. They do too much good to throw out the baby with the bathwater. I get pissed off sometimes, but, for the most part, NPR does great work.

I'd die without public radio (and I'm talking about both national news programs and the shows that are produced at individual public radio stations and syndicated). I have between 500 and 600 public radio podcasts on my iPod at any one time(from "Fresh Air" to "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" to "NPR Shuffle" (a podcast of snips from that day's NPR news programs) to "The Story With Dick Gordon" to "To the Best of Our Knowledge" to "The Diane Rehm Show" to "The Kojo Nnamdi Show" ...)

[FSogol]

6. I'd die w/o NPR too. I'm probably just blowing off steam. Hope they get a lot of letters

complaining about the West puff piece.

[Sal Minella]

13. "On The Media" is currently my favorite, followed closely by

Fresh Air and Wait Wait and This American Life and all-night BBC.

[sendero]

4. I quit giving in 2002..

.. after 17 years of membership. My last straw was an interview with Colin Powell where I knew he was lying, he knew he was lying (and later expressed regret) and the interviewer let it stand as fact.

Enough already. NPR is just a more in-depth version of Fox news that abuses its credibility with those that haven't figured out that are are not really much better than Fox - the stories NOT TOLD tell the tale.

[barbtries]

5. i shoved in the CD

screaming at the radio one more time during that bit.
NPR gets pretty bad at times, and then they'll do a great story. it's a crap shoot. yesterday that guy in the afternoon was interviewing some TH and the NPR host (i can't believe i can't recall his name i think it's a psychological issue) basically put this whole debt ceiling debacle on the president saying Obama is playing chicken with the republicans. this is how the dialogue shifts because that is a load of bullshit. the republicans have obstructed every single chance they had since he took office, the corporate media covers for the republicans every chance they get, and now NPR is catapulting the propaganda too.

i have yet to donate to them because when the subject is politics it seems that 9 times out of 10 the sound bite is republican. those fucking hateful destructive republicans who don't give a rat's ass about the people in this country.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. For whatever reason, most of the media is very soft on West.

I don't know why, perhaps they view him as an oddity, an African American Teabagger and don't necessarily grasp or want to grasp how dangerous the man is.

[GOTV]

8. Lack of public money and donations is WHY they have to cater to corporate sponsors ...

... if the public won't give them money and their listeners won't give them money, then only corporations are left and why would you piss of your only money source?

[rbixby]

9. Agreed!

This is THE reason to donate to NPR, get the corporate sponsorships out of there!

Then again I live in Minnesota, where I consider MPR to be mostly awesome.

[izquierdista]

10. Now that they've been completely coopted

Isn't much point of donating to a cause when all it does is make the corporate message go farther. Time to hatch a new public broadcasting, maybe using the new and upcoming technology like the internet.

[Sal Minella]

12. Exactly. I reasoned this out some time back, which is why I donate

to two public radio stations every month on a very limited income -- if public radio disappeared, we'd have no decent news source at all.

While McDonald's and Coca-Cola get mentioned far more often than I'd like, NPR also works with ProPublica to break really important stories that would NEVER be touched by M$M --

NPR interviewed Teabagger Rep Chafitz from Utah this morning and the man comes across as a Total Complete Idiot in his own soundbites -- I feel that NPR is not "promoting" RW viewpoints so much as "exposing" them -- and that's why I continue to send them money. I think the NPR management trusts that listeners will be able to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Overall, I conclude that NPR must lean to the left consistently, or the Wingers wouldn't be trying so hard to silence it forever.

[Glorfindel]

11. I heard it, too, but I'll continue donating

Here in Darkest Mississippi there really is no alternative. I can't imagine life without NPR.

[theophilus]

14. If one already knows the truth then they can pick out the goods and bads

on NPR. Is that any reason to listen to them?