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2005-06-06 Fifth Column

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Posted by badanov 2005-06-06 08:23|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "78 percent of the general respondents indicated that NPR did not have a liberal bias"
Well then surely that was the 78% that never listens to it. What a crock.

Posted by Tom 2005-06-06 08:55|| 2005-06-06 08:55|| Front Page Top

#2 NPR's bias is fairly pervasive and comes out in alot of idiotic ways. Much of it takes the form of Daniel Shore (senior (read senile)"news analyst" - somebody needs to tell him the world doesn't revolve around JFK, Nixon, and Watergate)and Robert Reich (sp)(nasty reckless SUV driving professor/midget) mutterings as well as bitter little stunted 1960's liberal ankle biter jabs thrown by newsreaders in with an adjective or phrase here and there. The bias can often be clearly seen in the choice of topics and context in the segments presented. It is annoying, pointless, and often juvenile at best. NPR's news and news oriented programing is an awkward dinosaur that can only be fixed with clearcutting and burning of the undergrowth followed by reseeding with a more intelligent staff operating under proper supervision and real guidelines for conduct. It seems to be a pervasive people problem there. Many of the reporters and news readers see their job as a crude personal soapbox. At last check that was not the role intended for NPR. I've been a sporadic listener for years but listen less and less as the quality drops and rhetoric rises. The idea of NPR is great but the crude expressions of political bias need to be brought to an end. Until that time I'll probably continue to get nausea and alternately, urges to inflict grievous bodily harm, ever time they start begging for money by tooting their own whistle claiming to be some sort of pure news outfit.

Posted by Tkat 2005-06-06 09:31|| 2005-06-06 09:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Of course, 78% of NPR listeners believe there is no bias there. This is like Dan Rather saying that the NYT is "middle of the road."

Posted by SR-71 2005-06-06 09:57|| 2005-06-06 09:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Defund NPR and let them compete in the marketplace. If there are enough people who want to hear - and support - it, fine.

Otherwise, welcome to the real world.

QUIT TAKING MY TAX DOLLARS FOR THIS POS!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-06 12:04|| 2005-06-06 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 NPR's news and news oriented programing is an awkward dinosaur that can only be fixed with clearcutting and burning of the undergrowth followed by reseeding

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-06 12:14|| 2005-06-06 12:14|| Front Page Top

#6 NPR's news and news oriented programing is an awkward dinosaur that can only be fixed with clearcutting and burning of the undergrowth followed by reseeding

LOL! Careful with that metaphor eugene. :)

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-06 12:15|| 2005-06-06 12:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Presumably the poll questioned only NPR listeners, since non-listeners would have no basis for an opinion. The same type of polling would show that 78% of CBS news viewers and 78% of Fox news viewers report no bias.

Agenda pollsters are a growing menace.

Posted by Marlowe 2005-06-06 12:22|| 2005-06-06 12:22|| Front Page Top

#8 ~~NPR specifically is well-funded by a bequest form McDonald's heiress Joan Kroc. I read that only about 1% of their budget comes from federal funds. But~~

I just found this link:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/bb20031112.shtml

Never mind.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-06-06 12:30|| 2005-06-06 12:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Shipman - I've looked the beast in the eyes (well maybe about two dozen of the eyes literally and a bit intoxicated at that) at a number of parties down in DC over the years. To be sure, the people are nice enough but blindered, hypocritical and stuck in an ideological time warp of sorts that leaves them with a 290 degree moral blindspot. Don't worry 'bout me though because I'm not going to go Sunni, er uh, I mean "postal." As a member of the NYT's 91st percentile of classissitude I could never besmirch my good reputation or soft hands touching an axe, hatchet, chinese cleaver, newport menthol, masonry hammer, reciprocating saw, or orphan drink.

Posted by EuGenE Tkat, III 2005-06-06 13:15|| 2005-06-06 13:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Not without getting your madras shorts wrinkled, at any rate.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-06-06 13:16|| 2005-06-06 13:16|| Front Page Top

#11 I stopped listening to NPR when they went to the "All Abu Ghraib" format.

Posted by AJackson 2005-06-06 20:25|| 2005-06-06 20:25|| Front Page Top

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